The health bill that everyone was fighting against has
already passed and 6 million people have already signed up with 3 more days
left in the enrollment period. When Pres. Obama was running for office he
promised that there would be changes in current health care and he has done
that by passing the Affordable Care Act. There is a lot of controversy about
what the new Affordable Care Act brings to the table. The goals for the Affordable
Care Act are to lower insurance rates, get more people covered and to get
better coverage not to raise insurance rates for everyone so they cannot afford
coverage. One of the biggest changes that the Affordable Care Act has had on
the current health care is that people cannot be denied coverage for
preexisting conditions. For example if a child was born with Asthma insurance
company could deny the child health care because that is considered as a
preexisting condition. In the United States there are more than 17.6 million
children with preexisting conditions that can no longer be denied coverage.
Another thing that Affordable Care Act has changed is that people do not have
limits on their health care. Such as a person with a chronic illness like
cancer cannot be denied coverage because they have reached a dollar limit set
by their insurance company. I think that Pres. Obama has done what he promised
when running for his presidency and the Affordable Care Act is a good thing
that has happened to the health care system.
