The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama-care was implemented with full effect in 2014. Even without reading a word of the law, because of the fact that it is estimated to be some 11,000 pages in length and possibly many thousands more, makes this Act, by the length of the Act itself, inherently unfair and unequally applied to all. Any law, to be a law, must be specific and understandable by the average citizen, to whom, by definition, a law with 11,000 pages could not possibly be understood by the average citizen, or I submit, by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Why the Affordable Care Act is so many pages is something that only those that authored it could possibly explained, but the basic reason would always be so as to obfuscate the issues and ultimately for the Act for be whatever, the powers-to-be wants the Act to represent.
While, one might applaud or appreciate the desire of having Universal HealthCare for all in the United States, this Act, is in actuality, not really a HealthCare Act, in and of itself, but a new federal tax mandated upon most citizens of America under the guise of HealthCare. The reason that we now know that this is a tax, is because, in the filing of one's Federal Taxes, there is now a column that is seen onyour Tax Software (such as TurboTax) dedicated to answering the questions in regards to your HealthCare service. Additionally, for those that used the HealthCare.gov marketplace in order to procure their required HealthCare insurance, a Form 1095-A was issued to you for your Tax obligations for Fiscal Year 2014.
The Affordable Care Act, gets just about everything wrong, if, it is in fact suppose to be both: affordable and for the healthcare for the people, in general. First, in regards to those people that have been paying for their HealthCare insurance either through their company employment or through their own pockets, their premiums for the same policy that they had been utilizing before the HealthCare act was implemented, for the most part, saw significant increases in their premium amounts after the HealthCare act was put into place. Additionally, for many people, 2015, will be the last year, that they will be able to utilize the same HealthCare plan that they had been historically using with their selected HealthCare provider, before it is phased out, and subsequently they will be placed into another plan that, is in accordance with the HealthCare Act provisions, in 2016, for a higher premium. In these cases, the HealthCare Act has done these people no good at all. For those people that were previously without insurance, because they believed that they could not affordor didn't desired health insurance, unless they earned income that fell under the Medicaid threshold, are now instead required, by law, to have HealthCare insurance, whether they desired it or not, or to pay a monetary taxation fine for not having done so.
There are myriad ways to provide HealthCare services to people in America, to which the Affordable Care Act is one such way, but a poorly and fatally structured one, suffering from governmental overreach, waste, lobbyist favoritism, and the like. In point of fact, the Affordable Care Act has resolved nothing in regards to the fairness or the betterment of Health Care; it has merely made certain industries and connected people richer at the expense of most Americans, and ceded more sovereign power from the people to the Government.