Affordable and Accessible Healthcare in United States

The availability and affordable nature of healthcare has always posed a big problem to each and every regime that has taken over the helms of power in the United States and other nations as well. During Obama’s tenure as the President, his government was able to create the Affordable Healthcare Act, a statute that has received a lot of publicity; both positive and negative. The opposition by Republicans and certain factions of industrialists and business owners were at the forefront to claim that the Act was not as ideal for the American Economy as the government may have deemed it to be. As much as this was the most heated and followed debate regarding affordable healthcare in the History of the United States, it was not the first.Affordable and Accessible Healthcare in United States

History of Affordable Healthcare

Since time immemorial, there have been a lot of questions and arguments regarding the creation and provision of healthcare to all. The poor in the society would be disadvantaged as the majority of them would not be able to afford the healthcare and therefore would not be able to get any form of assistance (Hall & Lord, 2014). In the 1890s, a group of physicians met and agreed that there could be an easy way to solve this issue. The physicians agreed to provide prepaid health care to their patients, thereby offsetting the costs of healthcare and being able to provide for the less fortunate (State Implement Health Reforms, 2011).