Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney: America's Future

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. This law puts in place widespread health insurance reforms that expanded out over the last 4 years and continues to change the lives of many Americans today. Health care reform has been an extensively debated topic for multiple years, and the ACA is the first effective attempt at passing a law aiming to make health care not only affordable, but accessible for all individuals. The law impacts many Americans including, children, employers, government programs which includes federal and state, health plans and private insurers, health care coverage, health care cost, and the quality of care received. The main goal of the law is to expand health care coverage, broaden Medicaid eligibility, minimize and regulate health care cost, and improve the health care delivery system. In order to improve the health care delivery there have been new consumer protections established and an increase access to affordable care.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Presidential Candidate Barak Obama, used national health care reform as a topic of concern during his campaign. Obama made a promise throughout his campaigning that he would ensure that all Americans will have heath care insurance. The reason for the Affordable Care Act movement was the ever increasing cost of health care and insurance premiums. Another reason supported by Young Rock Hong, a PhD student and graduate assistant at the University of Florida, “The purpose of health insurance is to facilitate sufficient access to health care, and to protect individuals as well as family members from the financial burden, especially associated with catastrophic illness” (1). Health care

The financial bailout on Wall Street rescued the economy from total collapse from faulty mortgage loans. Obama’s plans include reworking and changing the way the economy works for the better. George W. Bush gave tax cuts to Americans who earned over $1,000,000. A large sum of people don’t believe it was a fine idea. Obama will give tax cuts to working class people and small businesses, not to the wealthy. He will create tax credits of $500 per person and $1,000 per working families. Obama will also eliminate income taxes to senior citizens who less than $50,000 a year.

The changes taking effect on the health care system can be greatly utilized by Americans, whether it is in a good or bad way. Today, most Americans do not have health insurance because they cannot afford it. With the Affordable Care Act, these Americans will be able to receive health care benefits. President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010. It was created to increase access to insurance coverage, whether through a private

There are many issues that divide America. These range from social issues such as an individual’s stance on homosexuality and abortion to personal beliefs on economic policies like how to budget and where to tax. In 2016 one of the biggest topics in the election process was regarding whether the candidate would support Obama’s Affordable Care Act or try and dismantle it before it gets too big to disassemble. There are two sides to every argument. One side brings points that the other cannot and there is no right answer no matter where an individual places his or her personal opinion. This is why it is so important to analyze both arguments to try and reach the best possible solution on Obamacare such as who is effected and what is the

Currently, President Trump has failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, yet after this occurred, Mr. Trump is stating that he is still going to help by relaxing small businesses’ current dilemma with buying expensive health insurance policies, and to eventually broaden the spectrum of healthcare available to

As President Barack Obama’s presidency nears completion, it is natural that America as a whole should look back and ask the question, “Am I better off than I was four, or even eight years ago?” Although there are too many issues an administration faces in eight years to focus on all of them, one of President Obama’s most notable acts in his two terms in office is the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as Obamacare. It remains a controversial law, and has already faced multiple repeal attempts, challenges in the Supreme Court, a presidential election, and continues to be challenged repeatedly in Congress. The most recent CNN poll taken in January indicated that 51% of those polled disapproved of how President Obama is handling health care (President Obama and the Obama Administration, para. 12). As the 2016 Presidential elections heat up, it becomes an even bigger issue on the campaign platforms of GOP candidates. The future of the Affordable Care Act could very well lie with the next presidential administration. With a presidency on its way out that is so well known for Obamacare and presidential candidates using their stance on repealing the law as such a key point in their campaigns, one can’t help but wonder, how much does a candidate’s standpoint on the issue affect the public’s opinion of them? Data collected in polls nationwide indicate that that despite a common negative public opinion of Obamacare, a majority of Americans support adapting

This is a major milestone in Obama’s presidency. Five of his predecessors had totally failed in creating universal health insurance. Obama was able to sign into law the Affordable Care Act (2010) early in his first term (Glastris, Cooper and Hu). This is set to benefit 32 million uninsured Americans. In addition, the initiative is mandated to carry out experimental measures geared towards cutting the growth of health care cost which is believed to be the leading cause of long-term fiscal challenges in the US.

The incumbent 44th President of the United States is my preferential candidate of choice for the upcoming November, 2012 Presidential election. Dissecting his views and actions on a variety of topical policy issues will illustrate that my support for my candidate is on target. Furthermore, data will show success of Obama’s policies. Leading economists, including New York University’s Mark Gertler called the economic climate Obama inherited “one of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” (Hilsenrath). There is no doubt that the economy and a candidate’s economic policy will be the hottest item of discussion in politics during election season, along with topics like foreign policy and energy.

This years Presidential election is one of a kind with the outspoken Republican candidate Donald Trump and the experienced Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The paper will talk about these two presidential candidates very different background stories, which have helped shape their views on how the United States should be ran. Next, the paper will compare and contrast the important concerns that the presidential candidates have and their views on how to run the United States. These two presidential candidates differ on many important topics, for example; plan on education,immigration, and tax plans. Finally, the paper will discuss the views of the presidential election from the upcoming

Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, he had to battle the end of the recession, ways to stimulate the economy, and help stimulate the economy. One of his first actions as president happens to be a recovery program also known as the stimulus program to stimulate the economy after the Great Recession. Obama “by mid-February, Congress had passed and Obama had signed measures broadening children’s health services and providing $787 billion to stimulate the economy through tax cuts, infrastructure investments, direct aid to hard-pressed states and cities, and expanded health care and social welfare assistance for the unemployed” ("Obama, Barack"). This program took place between 2009 and 2010. Obama wanted to end the recession as efficiently as

The 2016 presidential race is one of the closest and most interesting elections in our nation’s history. At the end of 2016, Barack Obama will leave the White House and Americans will be faced will big decision of selecting his successor. On the Democratic ticket is former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, along with her Vice Presidential running mate, former Virginia senator, Tim Kaine. On the Republican ticket is Businessman and former reality television host, Donald Trump with his pick for Vice President, former governor of Indiana, Mike Pence. Whichever candidate wins the presidency will take on the task of trying to alleviate many of the issues our country faces today. One of those issues is to strengthen our economy and create new jobs within the United States. Hillary Clinton’s plan involves making college debt-free for students, making corporations pay their share of taxes, fixing America’s infrastructure and creating new manufacturing jobs in the United States, just to name a few. Donald Trump’s economic plans involve cutting taxes for all Americans, creating new U.S. jobs, and putting stricter trade policies in place (Hillary Clinton 2016; Donald J. Trump For President).

The 2012 election was a difficult challenge between Democratic Incumbent Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Romney came from a famous political family, but would it be enough to win the election? Obama’s first term in 2008-2012 would ultimately decide the outcome of his second term. The two candidates both had a prior reputation that would make or break the election. The economic conditions leading into the 2012 election were at devastatingly low points with the unemployment rate at a boggling 10%, highest it had been since the 1982 recession. Our nation was dealing with a plethora of significant issues during the time of the election and the citizens wanted a president who could promise to resolve those conflicts. Their campaign styles,

Starting off with the question “So where the heck are all the jobs?”(Kessler 330) causes readers to question this themselves. Most college graduates have trouble when searching for employment. Even with a degree, a massive amount of people are unemployed and have been asking themselves that very question. The author also uses the word “heck” to demonstrate personal frustration, and to shock the reader. Kessler uses un-affective persuasive skills by presenting a logical fallacy. Kessler claims the government has spent 3 trillion in stimulus, resulting in “ all we got were lousy 36,000 jobs last month”(Kessler 330). This misleading statement is known as false analogy, ultimately hurting the effectiveness of his introduction. Recent government stimulus has been distributed to help in other areas besides employment. This stimulus serves to provide state tax cuts, as well as business aid. The fast that Kessler believes 2 trillion dollars has been wasted is very un-relevant and false to assume.

Obama developed a health care plan that was affordable for all Americans. This health care plan was intended to improve access to health insurance for US citizens. It was known to the people as “Obamacare”, but the official name of this law was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Act required Americans to have health insurance for at least nine months out of the year or be taxed. The Act was originally formed to allow Americans to be able to afford healthcare coverage without going into debt, but most importantly it was designed to be certain that all citizens were