الباحث
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 496-510
2024-04-17
Economic Hurdles Of “obamacare” Implementation: An Ethical Interpretation
Authors : Mahboub Oussama .
Abstract
What characterized the United States’ healthcare system is its huge privatization as private insurance covered half of the nation’s people, largely financed by employers for employees and their households. This process is moderated through insurance companies that induced people to seek their medical consultations from contracted physicians and medical institutions to ensure the companies' interest. These causes, and some others, led to reducing the number of American people with individual insurance to low levels. This reality helped incite attempts of reforming the American health care system. In this respect, through the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also nicknamed Obamacare), the liberals sought to allow government to play a major role in curbing the market forces from maintaining their private-based control of the health care arena. This was through creating new channels and further options for health care consumers to seek eligibility for federal public programs or resort to private plans in the health marketplace. Such a paramount government role generated a heated opposition from conservatives. In this regard, relevant principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and respect for autonomy help raise ethical concerns over the role played by both liberals and conservatives either in support for or in surrender to the market forces and pharmaceutical industry.
Keywords
Affordable Care Act ; American Health care System ; Economy ; Ethicality ; Politics ; Principlism
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