Health Care Policy Pros And Cons

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Washington County, Tennessee Federal & State elected Legislative officials East Tennessee State University Health Policy Nurs 5001 Dr. Farrar July 6, 2013 Washington County, Tennessee Federal & State elected Legislative officials Residing in the county of Washington, city of Johnson City and beautiful state of Tennessee the residents of District 01 have Federal official Congressman Phil Roe, M.D. serving as their representative. Congressman Roe practiced medicine in the state of Tennessee for 31 years giving him the benefit of understanding exactly how the Medicare, Medicaid and Tenncare groups paid for care. When President Obama drew up the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and set into motion a bill to help the uninsured, children…show more content…
3). Roe called the ACA unconstitutional, fighting to have the bill stopped. On June 28, 2012 the US Supreme Court upheld the health care law agreeing that the “mandate can be viewed as constitutional” (Levs, 2012, para. 2) and that the IRS can collect the payments solely through “normal means of taxation”(Levs, 2012, para. 4). I am strongly pro this law because I believe people must have health insurance coverage one way or another but if we just talk about it and wait for the ‘perfect’ and agreed-by-all resolution, millions go without coverage and suffer every day, this law might not be perfect but it is here now and hopefully we will iron the kinks out as we go. Roe disappointed over the ruling, fueled up on his thoughts and has since filed and the House passed the Repeal of Obamacare Act on July 11, 2012. My congressman stated, “The court only determined the constitutionality of the ACA. It did not rule on whether the law improves out country’s health care system” (Roe, 2013, para.4). In response to that I must…show more content…
The decisions made and approved by the committees will be issues we as a community need to abide by as a man made law. The community is a diverse group with different religious view and frames of mind. Time will tell if the mandates can be accepted and followed 100%. These views on the ACA, POST and abortion are only my

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