OBAMACARE

In the U.S healthcare system, the private sector predominates. Citizens have to pay insurance fees out of their pockets, or they get one by working in a big company, which means that not many people have access to a medical insurance. Despite the government’s effort to help seniors and poor people with Medicare and Medicaid, it is not enough, millions of people are still living without medical coverage. And if they can afford it, it has low quality service or they might get discriminated according to the insurance company’s interests.

Obamacare’s position would be to reduce that number, and try to give access to as many as possible together with the possibility of curbing the actual healthcare spending.
The why, in this case, the interest, would be to battle income inequality by facilitating a decent coverage to citizens who otherwise would never be able to afford it. Also, the law wants to put an end to unfair reasons for which insurance companies deny you the coverage, such as, gender discrimination or being sick. It will also motivate small companies to offer coverage to its employees , given the tax credit, the program offers. People will be able to purchase affordable insurances through either state or federal marketplaces according to their existing budgets, and those who already own one, the reform will give them more benefits.

Those who are against, stand by the argument of Obamacare being no more than a loss of individual freedom, massive job decrease, and deficit. They say that it only focuses on people getting covered more than attempting to decrease the cost of care.

Opponents only see taxes increasing, since it’s the only way the reform will work, as it’s the only source of budget increase that in the end will help insure millions of people. They argue that by extending the insurance coverage to sick people, the cost of everyone’s insurance will rise.

Conservatives take the majority of the objectors side, so, unless they win next elections, they will have to get used to Obamacare. On the other side, most already insured people are happy with what they are getting, in both healthcare and health insurance, therefore their biggest concern so far is that the reform will take what they already like or have, to a more expensive situation or worst, away from them.

This reform is one the biggest rebounds U.S healthcare system has had since Medicare was introduced. Of course it will have people who like it and people against it. However, both sides need to focus on their common interest, which is , giving more people access to healthcare. If Obamacare still has areas that need work, they can still amend it, its not one hundred percent concluded, people need to educate themselves in order to know how it really is going to work point by point. Unless it gets revoked, there is nothing objectors can do but to look for the upside of it. They both have the same interest, which should be something everybody has to consider when trying to meet halfway, despite their different views on the process of how should that goal be approached.