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The Classical Argument Position Paper
The Affordable Care Act Should be Repealed
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama Care), signed into law by
President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, has been called the most significant and
controversial piece of health-related legislation in the history of the United States. Its mandate
is to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, lower the amount of people that
are uninsured by expanding public and private insurance coverage, and reduce health care
costs. In the three years since it became law, it has failed to live up to the expectations of the
lawmakers that voted in favor of it, as well as the American citizens it is designed to help.
Obama Care does provide some positive benefits such as covering pre-existing
conditions, complete coverage of preventive care costs, and making it illegal for health
insurance companies to terminate coverage for any reason other than customer fraud.
However, as noble as these efforts are, the problems with the new law greatly overshadow the
righteous efforts.
The most visible shortcoming with Obama Care is the failed launch of its website,
healthcare.gov, a healthcare exchange, on October 1, 2013. The main deficiency is the inability
to navigate any aspect of the website. According to the article, “ObamaCare’s Website is
Crashing Because it Doesn’t Want You to Know How Costly its Plans Are”, from Forbes (Roy,
2013), the reason for the problems with the website is that is forces a potential customer to
input detailed information before they are able to shop for a health care plan. This creates a
massive traffic bottleneck as the government verifies your information, and determines
whether or not the customer is eligible for subsidies. In response to healthcare.gov’s many
technical difficulties, the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, was called to
testify before the House Energy and Commerce...