Health Care the New Order
Stephan Murphy
SOC320: Public Policy & Social Services (BMJ1222A)
Instructor: Steve Knowland
July 6, 2012

Health Care the New Order For many decades there has been a concern as to the healthcare policies, that’s why for many decades there has been multiple bills introduced to congress addressing these issues; recently with the ruling of the Supreme Court hearing that upheld the new Affordable Care Act, it gave our current administration lead by President Obama the leverage that they needed to over-haul the old Health Care System to transform into what is known in its reformed status, this bill is currently commonly referred to as Obamacare. Many Americans would say that the new system is guaranteed to put the United States in the wrong direction of recovery while expanding the role of the Federal Government in every component of the health care system; while others have embraced the totally opposite concept and a small number remaining bi-partisan. It would seem that the underlying message to such a policy that has surfaced so often throughout decades is that it is a vital issue for the human race needing much attention to become a feasible and well functioning policy, however there are many controversial debates within ,that is why in this final paper it will raise some of those augmented pros and cons outlined in this new Health Care system that is being brought to life by the Obama administration, the cost that the citizens of America will have to pay to afford the new health care and finally the types of policy’s that are being implemented in this new health care system. It has come to the attention of officials of the anticipated obstacles brought to the retirement system due to the over-whelming numbers of retirees in the United States history because of the Baby-Boomer period (1946-1964); however the same element that has impacted that system has also impacted the healthcare system. We must keep in mind that as with the influx of retirement age, as aging American’s there is a relative period of time throughout one’s life-span that there is an influx at certain time frames of an overall increase of need towards healthcare; more so than your routine preventive care. This factor would certainly become positively impacted with the factor of increased populations of such. In 1980 the oldest of the Baby Boomer generation turned thirty four years old, and according to statistics it is usually between ages 35-40 that healthcare needs become more invasive; causing a increase in cost absorbed by employers and subsequently passed on to employees. Needless to say if there are self-employment, un-employment or under-employment factors healthcare costs are typically so absorbent leaving a large number of American’s having to take the health risk of remaining uninsured; this in itself is a true concern since routine healthcare is the best way to keep the costs down. In just 30 years in which was 2010 the United States neared $2.6 trillion in healthcare expense, over ten times the $256 billion spent in 1980 (The Henry Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012). The original health care system is going through a lot of changes coupled with the initiation from the current administration, as the Obama administration attempts to federalize the entire Health Care system, many opposing groups have done studies showing the effects of a new system, such as according to John Boehner a minority leader of the United States House of Representatives, 87 million Americans could possibly lose access to their current health care plan under the Affordable Care Act ; not only employees, the majority of the nation’s employers and as many as four out of five small businesses would lose their current coverage, (Boehner, 2010). As the administration prepare for the upswing in the federal government and the big bureaucracy that will follow, it has been estimated that the billions of dollars