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Obamacare : The Still Evolving Healthcare Reform

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Obamacare: The Still Evolving Healthcare Reform

“Obamacare”, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was a law developed to help provide affordable, quality healthcare insurance to everyone and reduce spending on healthcare by the general public (ObamacareFacts, n.d., (5)). Healthcare costs and coverage has been an ongoing struggle in the United States. It came with many new sub-laws affecting healthcare insurance providers and consumers, as well as new benefits to affect current and future healthcare insurances. Obamacare is currently still in effect. Obamacare was officially on to signing on March 23, 2010 by the President Barack Obama, after passing the senate and house. It was then upheld on June 28, 2012 by the Supreme Court (ObamacareFacts, n.d., (4)). It was comprised of ten titles ranging from Title I to Title X (ASPA, 2015, (2)). The promise of Obamacare was that it would make healthcare insurance more affordable to everyone by introducing measures to be upheld by current insurance companies and introducing a new, unique insurance of its own. The end result of this was to relieve people of healthcare cost worries and lower healthcare spending by the general public. It immediately came with scrutiny; many criticized some of the within-print legalities and penalties. Others saw past that and saw the potential to bring a more unified healthcare system to everyone. There were, and still are, many protests against the law’s penalty system which has

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