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Free Vs Affordable Healthcare Is Ethically Obligatory

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Poverty has usually been the cause of illness and it constructs as a barrier for vulnerable groups ' access to care and pretentious healthcare. Often times people with less favorable financial condition are not able to afford neither private health insurance nor government healthcare. In this paper, I will argue that free/affordable healthcare is ethically obligatory because Medicare is a fundamental right, all lives are equal and healthcare is not a commodity. There is numerous amount of health insurances available in the market and the most well-known of them all is the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare which is established by President Obama in 2010. The ACA aims to expand coverage to previously populations, improve quality of coverage and promote efficiency in the health system by expanding Medicaid funds, expanding coverage for dependent up to age 26 and prohibiting coverage limitations. However, the ACA did not go as well as Obama had imagined. The exchange enrollees went from 8.1 million to 6.7 million between spring and winter of 2014 due to lack of premium and failure to prof citizenship; 3.8 million where previously uninsured and it was only eight percent of the 47 million uninsured population before the implementation of the ACA. The ACA created a phenomenon known as the "Dinner-for-three" analogy, this describes the physician as "the person ordering the meal", the patient as "the person eating the meal" and the

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