Obamacare overall helps the elderly get more affordable health insurance. Obamacare lowers the premiums and deductibles for the 57 million elderly using medicare. Obamacare also lowers the cost of prescription drugs.
The Affordable Care Act allows more people to have health insurance by forcing companies with at least 50 workers to provide healthcare to their employees, as long as they work more than 30 hours per week.
Insurers can no longer deny a person because of a preexisting condition. This means that people that may have had something wrong with them before getting health care won’t be turned down. This also stops insurers from not accepting someone because of a mental illness. …show more content…
This also prevents people from beating the system by only getting health care when they are extremely ill, or in a bad medical position.
Obamacare opens up Medicaid to low-income adults. If your income was $16,400, or less you were able to get covered by Medicaid. Over 11 million people were able to get covered by Medicaid after this revision in health care.
If someone on your health plan gets extremely sick, your insurance company can’t drop you or limit the amount of insurance you use, This is because of Obamacare.
Obamacare prohibited insurance companies from raising your premium, without on okay from the state government. This prevents you from having to pay extra out of nowhere, when you may not have the money to do