Statistically, only twenty-eight percent of Americans are insured through government-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, implemented in the middle 1960s. Medicare commonly insures older people with acute care needs. “Medicaid is the joint federal-state government-sponsored program that pays for health services for poor children, pregnant women, and mothers of young children as well as mentally and physically disabled and very poor elderly individuals” (Emanuel 36). The most recent attempt to maintain a current medical assistance problem was a new law widely known as Obamacare. President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on the 23rd of March 2010, putting in place comprehensive reforms that are meant to improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and protect consumers from unfair insurance company practices. One of the issues Obamacare was supposed to overcome is a Medicaid Gap by expanding Medicaid on all the poorest citizens. However, this plan was not accepted by more than 20 states, which leaves more than 3 million people uninsured. Why do different political views affect such important problem as a lack of health coverage? Even fiscally conservative Republicans should be concerned about their neighbors’
Statistically, only twenty-eight percent of Americans are insured through government-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, implemented in the middle 1960s. Medicare commonly insures older people with acute care needs. “Medicaid is the joint federal-state government-sponsored program that pays for health services for poor children, pregnant women, and mothers of young children as well as mentally and physically disabled and very poor elderly individuals” (Emanuel 36). The most recent attempt to maintain a current medical assistance problem was a new law widely known as Obamacare. President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on the 23rd of March 2010, putting in place comprehensive reforms that are meant to improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and protect consumers from unfair insurance company practices. One of the issues Obamacare was supposed to overcome is a Medicaid Gap by expanding Medicaid on all the poorest citizens. However, this plan was not accepted by more than 20 states, which leaves more than 3 million people uninsured. Why do different political views affect such important problem as a lack of health coverage? Even fiscally conservative Republicans should be concerned about their neighbors’