Can Obama Care truly offer universal healthcare in America?


In the last days of President Obama’s time in office, he is fighting for health law as republicans stand firm on their vow to repeal his Affordable Care Act (Obama Care). What is the future of the Affordable Care Act? No one can really say. President Obama’s signature health care plan is being defended by the democrats on Capitol Hill while President-elect Donald J. Trump warns Republicans to let Obama care “fall of its own weight.”

The Republicans want to repeal Obama Care altogether while the Democrats want to find ways to improve the Affordable Care Act – they even have a slogan: “make America sick again” to get public support on keeping Obama Care in tact. By a vote of 51 to 48, the Senate is taking the first step to repeal the Affordable Care Act via a budget resolution or blueprint that would clear a path for legislation repealing of major provisions of Obama’s signature health care law. And next week the House is expected to take up a budget resolution. Republicans are hoping the Trump administration acts on a series of executive orders that will make it easier to repeal the Affordable Care Act but it will be hard to repeal Obama Care because removing parts of the law could put the health care market in chaos.

If Republicans want to repeal Obama Care, they need to offer Americans an effective replacement and show the added value that replacement can offer citizens. 20 million poor and working-class Americans now take advantage of Obama Care to make sure they have health insurance. Read Why It Will Be Hard to Repeal Obama for more insight on the situation.

Two components of Obama Care Trump would like to keep are:

– Affordable healthcare for Americans with pre-existing conditions
– Let children stay on their parents’ policies until age 26

While Trump may support getting rid of cost-sharing subsidies and contraception coverage. The problem at hand now with the Affordable Care Act is that young, healthy people may not necessarily want to give to the insurance pool because they may feel it’s a waste of money if they are not going to go regularly to medical and dental appointments. The Obama care subsidies and the mandate right now need young, healthy people to help pay for older, sicker customers. If they did not give to Obama care, insurance companies would have to raise premiums and that could make millions Americans under the health care plan be priced out of insurance.

Fromgirltogirl’s thoughts on improving Obama Care

The only way any system, including a universal #healthcare system, becomes favorable is offering added value to all parties affected. In other words #insurance companies, #healthcare providers and #patients must feel like they are winning within the system. It’s harder to completely replace a system than make adjustments to improve a system. Regardless of industry, there’s one thing everyone likes to hear and see: a problem resolved or a system improved. If you can’t solve problems or improve a system, you’ll struggle to find support and won’t make progress on goals. A great way to find problems/resolve them is to focus on the user experience. Most valuable information you can have: complaints because knowing complaints can help anyone find creative ways to resolve issues. If Obama care can help Insurance companies keep down cost cross the system, more Americans will buy into the market place. This buy-in will make Obama Care profitable for insurance companies and health care providers while making healthcare affordable by the year for buyers. The big challenge is how to get to this point. Send commentary to Fromgirltogirl about your thoughts on how to improve the healthcare system and truly give universal healthcare to Americans.

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