Many Americans are having trouble getting health insurance. Since President Obama came up with the Affordable Care Act, it is required of people in the United States to have health insurance coverage, if a person was to go without health insurance they would be charged for not having health insurance once you go and file your income taxes. Overall this healthcare act has not helped this country in any way shape or form in my opinion.

The reason I say that it doesn’t help this country is because it really hasn’t helped the low income Americans that it intended to help. This act was designed to make health insurance affordable for low-to-moderate income people who fall at the poverty line. The Americans that make too much that don’t qualify for Medicaid can purchase health insurance on the state’s health exchanges, or they can buy insurance privately.

The idea of this act sounds great when you read the definition of what it is trying to do. In the long run it is trying to pull every penny out of Americans and make it difficult for people to live and afford to keep their lives afloat. It is designed to help yes, but in the end it is also there to penalize people that are some of the lower end of the middle class to the top of the middle class. Look around people, it is us and our parents!

This is basically making the middle class disappear into thin air. It is making it look like we only have a two class society: a low income class, and an upper class. This healthcare system isn’t working. It isn’t making it affordable for people, it’s making it unaffordable. It is hurting those people that bust their butts every day working a 8-12 hour job. With this it is also changing the view on having a big family for many that can’t afford the requirements set by the government.

This needs to change so that all classes are seen equal in some way shape or form. The separation between classes are growing with every governmental change put into effect. The reason I didn’t mention the upper class and their issues with healthcare insurance is because if you look at data, it shows that this has a more direct impact on the middle class, even though it is targeted to help the lower income class. We need to come together as a unit and fix the healthcare problems for the next generation.