Critical Thinking and Research: Affordable Care Act

Affordable Care Act
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as the Obamacare, has revolutionized the health care and is bound to make even more changes in the future. This is especially the case when considering the Medicare. For the most part, it is going to affect the way that the elderly and the poor population in the society are able to access health care.
The complexity of the problem is mainly associated with several aspects such as less access to care, less plan choices, less access to physicians, higher part D premiums, higher taxes and future of Medicare that does not seem stable (Senger, 2013). This is thus going to place burden on the elderly and the poor as the system is going to be less flexible for them and offer fewer choices for their health care. Ideally, the cost of health care is going to rise relative to the growing portion of insurance in their budgets. This is also the case with income, and thus the poor and the elderly are bound to bear the blunt of inefficiencies in the system.
To understand the complexity of the problem relative to the society, it is crucial to understand the imbalance that exists between the rest of the society and the population of the elderly and that of the poor (Senger, 2013). As the burden is placed on this population, there is bound to be an even bigger gap in the society. As the gap widens, this will create an even higher larger gap between the poor and the rich (Garfield & Damico, 2016). This is bound to slow down the economy relative to the number of people that will not have the ability to access health care. The poverty level is bound to rise even higher (Garfield & Damico, 2016).
One of the aspects that is likely to come up is the number of people that will be pushed towards poverty by the ever rising costs that they have to manage in the budgets. The taxes are bound to keep rising and the cost of medical care is also going to take a large part of their budget which keep rising but the income does not (Senger, 2013). This is bound to bring about higher crime rates as people try to survive. Ideally, it is quite hard for some of the people to escape poverty; this is relative to the fact that they cannot find quality work that is also well paying (Goodman, 2016). At the same time, they are faced with an ever rising cost of living while their income diminishes.
At the same time, the level of dependency in t...