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  • The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has been a hot button issue in

  • American politics. It has been debated, protested, screamed about and has already made one

  • trip to the Supreme Court. It has been over a year since open enrollment, so it might

  • be a good

  • time to ask, is Obamacare working?

  • There are many ways to look at the success or failure of a healthcare system, but lets

  • just

  • look at the big picture. One clear sign of success many people point to is the decreasing

  • number of uninsured Americans. Polls from Gallup, the CDC and the New England Journal

  • of

  • Medicine all show that the number of uninsured is going down. One poll from the Health Return

  • Monitoring Survey saw the number of uninsured drop 30% between 2013 and 2014.

  • Another major aspect of the Affordable Care Act is to be, well, affordable. And there

  • is

  • evidence that costs are down, partially due to an increase in competition between health

  • insurers. There are more people insured now than ever before and as a result there are

  • more

  • health insurance providers popping up to compete for those customers. This has been directly

  • connected to lower premiums across the country. Many studies have found that premium rates

  • are either increasing at a slower rate than normal or in some cases, actually decreasing

  • Health care spending has also gone down. But Obamacare isn’t really responsible for this.

  • Healthcare spending has been trending downwards all around the world and in the US the

  • recession is seen as the main reason for this. Experts believe that Obamacare will actually

  • make health care spending increase in the future. The more people that have health insurance

  • will mean more money spent on health care.

  • One big factor in judging how a health care system is working is the health of the nation.

  • Whether or not Obamacare is helping Americans be healthier, we don’t know yet. Obamacare

  • hasn’t been around long enough to answer that question.

  • And of course Obamacare has had negative effects on some. People making middle-class

  • wages have reported hardships in paying their medical insurance premiums because they

  • don’t qualify for any government subsidies to help relieve the financial pressure. There

  • are also

  • states that haven’t implemented Medicaid expansion policies which have created gaps,

  • where

  • some Americans don’t qualify for one helpful program because they make too much money and

  • another helpful program because they make too little.

  • Obviously this does not cover all aspects of Obamacare. But the facts are still there

  • the three

  • main issues: there are more people insured, health care costs have not skyrocketed and

  • the

  • health insurance industry is growing.

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奧巴馬醫改有用嗎? (Is Obamacare Working?)

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