Title: Why is the ACA so controversial? – The Affordable Care Act
Headings: Why is the ACA so controversial?
Why is the ACA so controversial?
Why has a healthcare law with the simple purpose of reducing healthcare spending in the U.S., the highest in the world, been so controversial?
Conservative Disagreement
Individual Mandate
Contraceptive Access
Delayed Employer Mandate
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Content: Additionally, they believe the implementation of Obamacare would be overstepping the federal government’s bounds. Individual Mandate
The most controversial part about the ACA is its “individual mandate” that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or to pay an annual fine. Many states found this unconstitutional, and five major court rulings were made about the individual mandate. Four of them passed the individual mandate as constitutional but one of them, which was led by Florida amongst 25 other states, found it unconstitutional and referred it to the higher courts and became the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. In June 2012, the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius upheld the individual mandate as constitutional. The Supreme Court’s justification was that the government had the ability to regulate taxation and since not purchasing healthcare only meant paying more tax, the ACA was constitutional. Contraceptive Access
One of the policies of the ACA was requiring employers to guarantee health insurance to women that would include obtaining birth control. However, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby 2014, the Supreme Court ruled against this provision and allowed Hobby Lobby, a Christian chain of hobby shops to not have to follow this provision; basically, the health insurance they provide does not have to include birth control. Delayed Employer Mandate
Moderate conservatives have voiced concerns over the fact that the ACA allows employers to delay implementing provisions by a year (2015/2016) but individuals are not allowed to do the same.