Evidently, President Obama has succeeded in establishing the Health Care System reform. The President and democratic leaders claimed that a universal health insurance reform would reduce the deficit by reducing health care costs. As such, signed in 2010, the reform act has now brought the results to analyze and see what the Americans are up to.
The benefit that Americans get along with a new health care coverage is lower price on the health care overall. You do not worry about the cost of surgeries, emergency rooms visits, blood tests, etc., whereas National Care Coverage System does it for you (Harrington, 2011). So, once a person gets enrolled into the Health Care for America coverage program, he/she reduces expenditures on health care due to being employed, for instance. This is an evident advantage because you get your employer care about this, or simply provide pay-roll taxes from what you have earned for the year. If it is not your employer to take care of Health Care for America, you may purchase the program yourself. This is very convenient since you can choose the medical treatment center yourself. This is important with the skyrocketing costs on medicines, medical check-ups, appointments at specialist doctors, and unforeseen cases of hospitalization. The evident advantage is cheap medical care from now on that covers many more Americans who could not afford it before (McDonough, 2011).
Although the system is seemingly wonderful and it does offer many freebies, there is a disadvantage that makes an American citizen rethink the perfectness of a plan. It is about the higher taxes. The wealthy and middle class citizens will have to subsidize the cost for lower-income people. This is exercised through higher taxes levy. Even though the taxes are higher, the state will have to get on more debts in order to fund the health coverage system. The possible negative results are paying more taxes or ending up with inflation because the government will print more money. As such, either way, the cost of health care will level up. Eventually, the governemnt will try to divide the healthcare providers geographically which reduces the freedom of choice.
To control health care costs under a national health insurance system is hard particularly because the new system offers low process on healthcare and the same level quality. This may put to risk the health care providers (Weinberger, 2010). Moreover, the system of reducing costs and leveling up the taxes may not e too perfect due to varying lists of middle and high income families. It is risky in advance to ask people who earn more pay more to the government in order to provide for poorer families. This would make the government change the rules from time to time and a person is never too secured with the knowledge on the health care process. The latter is dramatic because someone is able to pay the whole price for the program right away, whereas it is hard to when the costs are constantly varying.
To crown it all, the Health Care for America has been a significant step forwards to affordable medicine and not worrying about the emergency cases. President Obama has made it possible to hope for better future and cheap medical care for the next generation when all the hazards are overcome. However, today there still are some risks, disadvantages and advantages, as well, that need working on.
References
Harrington, J.T. & Newman, E.D. (2011). Great Health Care: Making It Happen. New York: Springer.
McDonough, J.E. (2011). Inside National Health Reform. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Weinberger, C.W. (2010). Can we control health care costs? Health Affairs, 1(1), 153-161.