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Dr. Aaron Shirley Blog: Nick Dortch

It is a generally known fact that the Affordable Care Act is a new healthcare law that provides Americans with better health security by putting in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that would: expand coverage, hold insurance companies accountable, lower health care costs, and increase the quality of care for all American citizens. The law refers to two independent pieces of legislation that, together would expand Medicaid to millions of low-income Americans and make several improvements to Medicaid. When put in place the act would require Americans to purchase healthcare coverage, but for those who already have insurance coverage and like what they have are able to keep it and are not forced to change their insurance. The law allows individuals and families to be in control of their healthcare and as its title suggests also makes healthcare more affordable for different groups within the middle class by offering the biggest tax cuts for the middle class in American history and millions of families will also benefit form new tax credits that help them reduce their premium costs and buy insurance.

Unfortunately such benefits and others have barely impacted and effected
Mississippi in contrast to others state. The lack of the laws impact is due to
several issues, including the conservative officials and governor of
Mississippi, Phil Bryant, choosing to opt out of the Medicaid expansion in 2012
and overall opposing the act, an overall lack of knowledge regarding the law amongst
a majority of Mississippi’s population, and other errors with the healthcare
site. These problems and others caused the Law which could help Mississippians
so much end up trapping it into and even more severe healthcare crisis.

Nick Dortch

Tougaloo College