Antiobamacare
Paige Bickford
American Government 201
Professor Saphir
No one likes to being told what to do, especially when it comes to their personal health. Obamacare also known as The Affordable Care Act leaves Americans with little options on how to handle their personal and family health care. The founding fathers envisioned America as a place of free choice and personal rights, and I have no doubt that they would disapprove of a socialized health care law. If we don 't try and stick to the ideals and philosophies this country was built upon how much longer will it be the America we all love and cherish? From complications with the website to the issues with the written document itself the creation of Obamacare has only caused problems instead of the positive solutions it promised. The Constitution is the framework of our nation , it protects the people from too much power going into the federal government 's hands and Obamacare goes against this and its unconstitutionality is the main reason it needs to go. A fundamental part to the document is the individual mandate which requires , “individuals not covered by employer or government-sponsored insurance plans to maintain minimal essential health insurance coverage or pay a penalty”1 without it Obamacare would be completely useless because it wouldn 't be enforceable. The individual mandate does just that , it forces people to acquire health insurance and it is unconstitutional for what it does and how it was upheld by the Supreme Court. First off the Constitution never grants Congress the power to make an individual enter a contract with a private party! What if someone simply doesn 't believe in healthcare or doesn 't want health care? As Americans we are granted the right to not believe in something and this law forces you to either get health care or pay a fine for simply not engaging. If Congress can compel someone to do something for simply being alive where does it end? Yet the individual mandate was
American Government 201
Professor Saphir
No one likes to being told what to do, especially when it comes to their personal health. Obamacare also known as The Affordable Care Act leaves Americans with little options on how to handle their personal and family health care. The founding fathers envisioned America as a place of free choice and personal rights, and I have no doubt that they would disapprove of a socialized health care law. If we don 't try and stick to the ideals and philosophies this country was built upon how much longer will it be the America we all love and cherish? From complications with the website to the issues with the written document itself the creation of Obamacare has only caused problems instead of the positive solutions it promised. The Constitution is the framework of our nation , it protects the people from too much power going into the federal government 's hands and Obamacare goes against this and its unconstitutionality is the main reason it needs to go. A fundamental part to the document is the individual mandate which requires , “individuals not covered by employer or government-sponsored insurance plans to maintain minimal essential health insurance coverage or pay a penalty”1 without it Obamacare would be completely useless because it wouldn 't be enforceable. The individual mandate does just that , it forces people to acquire health insurance and it is unconstitutional for what it does and how it was upheld by the Supreme Court. First off the Constitution never grants Congress the power to make an individual enter a contract with a private party! What if someone simply doesn 't believe in healthcare or doesn 't want health care? As Americans we are granted the right to not believe in something and this law forces you to either get health care or pay a fine for simply not engaging. If Congress can compel someone to do something for simply being alive where does it end? Yet the individual mandate was
Citations: 1. Manuel, Dave. "Definition of Individual Mandate." DaveManuel.com. Accessed March 28, 2015. 2 3. "Romney Breaks with GOP, Says Mandate Is a Penalty, Not a Tax." TheHill. Accessed March 29, 2015. o/campaign/235855-romney-team-agrees-with-obama-mandate-not-a-tax. 13. "The "unanticipated" Consequences of Obamacare - Free The Future." Free The Future. February 11, 2014. Accessed March 25, 2015. https://freethefuture.org/504/.