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Obamacare (Affordable Care Act)
Officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare is the very controversial law that was signed by President Obama in 2010. Provisions of the act will start becoming active as of January 1, 2014.
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As the debate over healthcare reform raged on, there were numerous opinion pieces and assorted wild guesses (some partisans claimed the bill would be more than 10,000 pages long); but the final version of the Affordable Care Act had 906 pages. This may sound like a lot, but in its final form, it was actually typical of many other large pieces of legislation.
Microchip required by ObamaCare?
No, this is a foolish rumor perpetrated by conspiracy theorists and trolls.
We don't need Obamacare. Obamacare is a bill that is over 2,000 pages long, but the main idea of it is that everyone is FORCED to buy health insurance. Of course, in those 2,000 pages, it doesn't just say that everyone must buy health insurance. It also indirectly said that the U.S. government is in control over all things health related. That's not a good thing because everything the government has control over fails.
This is just one opinion. Just as you need car insurance to drive a car, you will need health insurance.
Actually many of them do. Given how many thousands of doctors there are, it is difficult to say they all do, but polls show that a majority of doctors do support the Affordable Care Act.
55% of doctors polled believe it will have an unfavorable effect on their practices, and only 29% say they will participate for sure.
Only 11% say they have faith in Obamacare.
