When the United States Supreme Court upheld a crucial aspect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the end of June, people across the country hailed the Court's 6-3 ruling as finally establishing affordable health care as a legal right of each and every citizen.
"Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate — we finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few, but a right for all," President Obama said in his remarks after the Supreme Court's ruling was made public.
But is this optimistic statement completely true? Despite the advances that have been made in the health care industry since the ACA was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama back in 2010, many issues still plague the country.
Here are a few problems that persist throughout the health care industry:
- 35 million Americans are either uninsured or underinsured
- 21 states opted out of Medicaid expansion under Obamacare
- Medicaid eligibility and coverage varies from state to state
- The cost of health care continues to rise and shift
- More than 40 million Americans are in medical debt.
The health care system in the United States has improved since the passage and implementation of Obamacare, although the country stands in stark contrast to other advanced industrial nations — such as France, the United Kingdom and Canada — which all have some form or another of national health insurance for its citizens.
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