Obamacare Argumentative Essay

Obamacare Obamacare is a huge topic being discussed between many politicians and regular people across the country. Obamacare is the major “accomplishment” of President Obamas Presidency. While democrats generally are in favor of Obamacare, the republicans are against it. The arguments against Obamacare are the effects on Medicaid, whether it is constitutional or not, and costs of running it. I personally side with the republicans against Obamacare.
First thing is the negative effects on Medicaid. Medicaid is a healthcare program to help low-income families and individuals. It was started in the 1980’s and today it is one of the largest sources of healthcare funding in the United States. Medicaid is a joint program between the federal
How is the government going to pay for this large increase in Medicaid costs? Higher taxes on the middle class of course. Andrea Lafferty said, “Obamacare is a $1 trillion dollar tax hike on lower and middle class Americans3.” Middle class Americans already pay a lot of taxes and most don’t want to pay
Most people who say that it is unconstitutional argue that the implementation of Obamacare is the reason it is unconstitutional. President Barak Obama has taken control of the implementation of universal healthcare, which is why it is called Obamacare. President Obama has used executive actions multiple times to get the parts of the law that he wants to be enacted. Obamacare is the major “accomplishment” of the Obama Administration. Many of the Republicans in the House of Representatives have added to a lawsuit against the Obama Administration. According to Hans von Spakovsky, Obamacare has violated Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 of the Constitution2. This is also known as the Origination Clause, which states, “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.2” In other words, the individual mandate in Obamacare, which is called a penalty by the law, is in fact a tax. If the individual mandate is a tax then this would be unconstitutional because this part of the law was not originated in the House of Representatives. As stated in the article “How 40 Congressmen Are Challenging Obamacare”, the Supreme Court found that the individual mandate is a tax in order to fund the law. Our constitution clearly states that the only way a law can raise money is if it was originated in the House of