obamacare, or the affordable care act is a law than was enacted to ensure that every single american, regardless of age, sex or race has access to affordable health care. the idea was headed by president barack obama, and resultantly it’s named after him. essentially, obamacare is supposed to represent a medium between a fully fledged market based healthcare system, and a government owned nhs esque system that still allows people to choose their own health package, but also prevents people from being abused by the system. obamacare supposedly does this by offering people discounts on government sponsored healthcare plans, and expanding the medicaid system to ensure people who can’t afford healthcare are provided with it. as well as this, there are certain rules that insurance companies must follow to prevent people from being mistreated by the system. for example, people can no longer be refused insurance, or forced to pay huge premimumes simply for having a pre existing condition. the issue with obamacare is that some argue it has caused insurance premiums to skyrocket. many argue that this is indicative of the whole idea, obama simply wants to redistribute the cost of healthcare from the poorest to the middle classes, who are forced to pay more. however whilst there are some that argue obamacare has done too much, some argue it has’nt gone far enough.
people like vermont senator bernie sanders, who argue for a single payer system say that obamacare doesn’t protect enough people and that a fully fledged nationalised healthcare system like the systems in canada and the uk, would do just that. yet president obama continues to insist that he passed obamacare in its current form because he wanted a system that would appeal to both sides of the political argument and that he didn’t want to cause more division in the country. still the argument rages on. if you liked my video, then please like, share and subscribe. thanks for watching.
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