A Trump Card

An ongoing battle between the Presidential candidates ended with a decisive victory for the Republican Party. Donald Trump led the campaigns for the party which witnessed controversial quotes from the man himself whilst the campaigns continued. Although we are not going to look at the President-elect today, we are going to look at how the national healthcare of the United States of America is going to be affected.

In 2010, Barack Obama introduced a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to the United States of America on the 23rd of March. This PPACA was signed in order to grant American citizens more affordable healthcare (similar to NHS). With a population of over 308 million in 2010, this was an immense number of people looking for healthcare and the introduction of a new scheme to this sized population seemed like a dangerous task. Although, after 6 years from the introduction, the scheme has had its pros and cons. For example, a pro is that tens of millions of people unable to afford healthcare have been given an affordable solution. Although, a con is that new taxes have had to be implemented in order to cover the insurance of all citizens joining the program.

But with a new President awaiting extreme power, Donald Trump is keen to overthrow the act with his very own reformation plan. This consists of repealing Obamacare altogether as soon as he can and allowing people to have the free choice of whether or not to purchase healthcare insurance or not. With the shutdown of such a huge project (Obamacare) for the national healthcare of one of the biggest nations, we wonder what Trump has up his sleeve; could it be a Trump Card?

Thanks for reading this weeks blog, let us know your thoughts on Trump in the comments

Written By Universal Medicine (Sab Bassan)

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