Obamacare, Liberty and Reality Persuasive Essay by SBurtis

The paper addresses the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, over whether mandatory health coverage is constitutional. The paper explains that many Americans believe that allowing the government to mandate citizens to carry health insurance infringes upon the liberties afforded by the U.S. Constitution and is a form of socialized medicine. This author, however, argues that mandatory health coverage is a much-needed blessing in a time when millions of Americans are uninsured, and rely on mediocre free and low-income clinics. The author contends that a lack of health coverage is more of a death sentence than socialized medicine could ever be, and if the government claims to care about its citizens, it should shoulder responsibility for the equal healthcare opportunities of those citizens. In conclusion, this author postulates that Obamacare does not aim to take liberty away from the American people; rather, it aims to restore equality to a system guilty of catering to the "haves" while exhibiting blatant indifference toward the "have-nots.