Affordable Care Act
The U.S. Government is not under any official or mandatory obligation to ensure healthcare to its citizens. However, I personally believe that it is the governments responsibility to protect the people it was put in place to represent. According to the N.Y. Times study, “about 14 million eligible Americans are left uninsured and living in poverty”. Although 14 million is a small number compared to the growing number of American people, as a citizen, I am not proud to say that a percentage of my fellow Americans aren’t able to get affordable care due to certain states failure to expand. I think that it is necessary for states to expand in order to fill in the gaps, but I also believe that it is important to have limits. Care should be available specifically to those Americans who work and pay taxes, those who cannot work due to a certain condition, those who are under emergency circumstances, and children.