The Affordable Care Act

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One of the biggest policies affecting women currently is the Affordable Care Act. Over the years it has become more intrusive to be a woman in the United States. From Roe VS Wade attempting to squelch the inability of women to attain needed abortions to women not being able to receive health care at all. It has become a disgusting quagmire for the individuals attempting to pass through laws and policies making things “right” again. What was particularly good about the Affordable HealthCare Act is that it didn’t allow insurance companies to discriminate against women as a whole. Particular medications would not cost more due to different parts of the body being affected. One of the biggest things the Act helped with was insurance companies being allowed to say whether or not they would take someone to begin with based on past issues. Although this affects men/women/trans people equally it particularly allows women who weren’t being given insurance in the midst of severe crises. According to Jay McDonald at BankRate, “22 percent of men who won't obtain health insurance cite opposition to the Affordable Care Act, compared with just 8 percent of women who plan to remain uninsured.” This number is still relatively low in my opinion because of the target audience’s not being reached. The individual clients I work with in domestic violence groups must be reminded all the time of things that they are afforded to. This is just a glimpse of a large population who is not directly reached by positive media outlets.

This particular act is just one thing that should be guaranteed to all people. The ability to attain healthcare that they can properly use. I completely understand that it is under a lot of scrutiny still about whether or not it is a right. If I assume that being a healthy individual is something substantial to better the rest of the country as a whole and be a more productive member of the society that we live in than I can safely and conservatively assume that it is a right and guarantee. 

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McDonald, Jaay. (2014, March 17) Many uninsured still unaware about Obamacare. (2014, March 17). Retrieved September 10, 2014, from http://www.bankrate.com/finance/insurance/health-insurance-poll-0314.aspx