among the nation. With a deadline for the 2014 fiscal year budget‚ our congress couldn’t agree on the amount of money being funded to Obamacare and the Medical Device Tax. Republicans fought for cutting of Obamacare funding‚ while the Democrats opposed and eventually won out. As October 1st approached‚ Republicans made a proposed budget that cut the funds for Obamacare that would cripple it as a government program. When the Democrats rejected the proposed budget‚ our government went into a partial shutdown
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positively‚ satisfaction is indirectly influenced. Satisfaction determines the status of any business‚ even the healthcare system. The P.P.A.C.A. (Obamacare) is a health care reform designed to create a better healthcare system. According to Jennifer Tolbert‚ the Associate Director for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured‚ the goal of the Obamacare “spanned into four key areas: expanding coverage to millions of Americans who lack it today; improving the affordability and quality of coverage
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bloviating brigade of talk-show hosts. The assumption was that the tea party had become invincible inside the GOP. People who knew better followed Sen. Ted Cruz down a path of confrontation over Obamacare. Yet even before the shutdown began‚ Republicans stopped talking about an outright repeal of Obamacare‚ as House Speaker John Boehner’s ever-changing demands demonstrated. The extent of the rout was then underscored in the hot-microphone incident last week when Sen. Rand Paul was caught plotting
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Health policy introduction The major problem concerns the mergers between hospitals in the wake of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the Obamacare). This is a problem because it is highly likely that these mergers will hike the costs of providing healthcare‚ something that the Obamacare legislation sought to address in the first place. It’s also problematic because the mergers may lead to the creation of monopolies or duopolies which tend to raise prices. That is the reason
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1 Obama - Hope Introduction Barack Obama’s complex upbringing has polarised the media and brought a lot of controversy.2 His multicultural background made him a hero and villain at the same time. Chicago native? First African American President? Half white? Hawaiian? Indonesian? All of these labels have been used to simply box him into one of these categories. But we should not ignore the life experiences this brought and eventually defined his identity. Obama‚ like any American president
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Bauman Policy Analysis of the U.S. VA System Bauman 1994‚ sentiments are mainly based on the fact that as much as the country is debating on the nature and future of healthcare‚ it is ignoring a rather critical part of it. According to him‚ the federal government control and owns the Veteran Affairs health care system which is the biggest care system in the country given the fact that it was comprised of a hundred and seventy-one hospitals three hundred and sixty-two outpatient clinics a hundred
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pre-existing condition. Since it’s conception and ratification it has already changed the landscape of the medical field. “It has provided new rights and protections to more than 100 million American and has helped to reduce the uninsured rate. “(Obamacare
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Poverty in America More than forty-five million people‚ or 14.5% of Americans today are living below the federal poverty line. As we know twenty-two percent of wealth is owned by only one percent of the population. This means that only 78 percent of Americas wealth is distributed throughout the upper middle class‚ lower middle class‚ working poor‚ etc. According to Frank Holmes a person that is apart of the 1% has to earn at least $521‚ 411. While a family of four that is considered to be living
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tax. It is not within congress’s power to require Americans‚ as a requirement to live in this country‚ to acquire a commodity‚ including health insurance. Now make a mental note‚ Obamacare could only be upheld as a tax. Not saying it would be a legitimate tax but let’s entertain the notion. To be a lawful tax‚ Obamacare would have to follow all the constitution’s conditions for the imposition of taxes. Because Democrats bull headedly maintained that their independent achievement was not a tax‚ its
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physical checkups‚ radiology and blood tests‚ and surgical expenses. It also covers the cost of medicine and reimburses for medical expenses. Many people were uninsured until 2008 when President Obama was elected. He began an insurance plan called ObamaCare which made it cheaper and easier to have health insurance compared to private insurance companies. The amount of Americans having insurance has risen greatly since President Obama’s first term in 2008. Between 2008-2009 the percentage of uninsured
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