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Pros And Cons Of Obamacare

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In Chapter four of "Ten Letters", there is a letter to President Obama written by Natoma Canfield, a woman whose health insurance became increasingly unaffordable after she survived cancer. After receiving Natoma's letter, Obama often carried it with him as he spoke of the need to reform healthcare to make it more affordable to those who needed it the most and to expand coverage to those who could not get it. "The Affordable Care Act," which came to be called Obamacare in the news media, passed through both houses of congress without a single Republican vote in favor and was signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. Obamacare aims to let citizens have their own health care and to make health care more affordable. According to CNN, when …show more content…

From the Constitution in Section 7, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives”. (U.S. Constitution, 1787) This is the Origination clause, which aims to keep taxing power for representatives and is meant to more closely represent citizens’ will instead of the Senators who serve in the government for six years. However, unlike the typical 1911 Supreme court case called Flint V. Stone Tracy Corp, which pointed out that “the clause wasn’t violated when the Senate amended a House-passed bill to add a tax to it” (Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 1911), Obamacare began in the Senate instead of in the House of Representatives, and it was a rewriting of an old bill about providing veterans with welfare which had been passed by the House. (CATO, October 2013) The Majority Leader Harry Reid changed some contents of the old bill and added new provisions, so this old bill became the Affordable Care Act. The process of passing Obamacare was therefore careless and hasty according to Republicans, violating the spirit of the Constitution. Even the Supreme Court’s liberal wing stated that it was unconstitutional in some

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