3/22/2014
Obama care is the way!
Since people often ignore the fact that every citizen deserves health insurance that’s affordable to their incoming income there will be a change coming in 2014 that is already in effect. Well in the year 2014 after all the arguing on Capitol Hill, Supreme Court case and the presidential election. The affordable care act is in motion. There are four main ways every citizen will experience health care once the health care law moves fully into effect. Half of the America will get health insurance through their jobs. About a third will get covered health insurance through the government called Medicare. About one and ten will buy insurance their self. Unfortunately the other 30 million will not be covered with health insurance.
Starting in the work place many Americans are already covered by the work site they are in, but for them not a whole lot has changed. There are some advantages like how many caps you have to pay out of pocket and free preventative care. The bigger change is coming for those who work with larger companies but aren’t covered now, but that’s because the government is going to required companies with 50 or more employees to be covered that work full time. If they are not then they will have to pay a penalty fee. This will cause more working people to become covered.
Smaller employers will not be penalized for not having health insurance but will heavily be encouraged to obtain it through smaller market places. Some small employees will be offered tax breaks if they do become covered. Unlike now, health insurance companies will not be able to inflate prices on employees if they get sick. This will cause most of us to get covered while working.
A lot of people will still be covered by the government. Not much will change with seniors on Medicaid and Medicare. The law has already stared helping people pay for prescriptions drugs and better preventatives care. Medicaid on the other hand is used to...