The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Running Head: The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 1
The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
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The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was signed into law during the
presidency of Barrack Obama on March 2010. I chose this act because it was chosen as a
reconciliation bill that was supposed to cater to the budget when the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act was passed into law. The act was supposed to provide for matters of
healthcare and education (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2013). It covered
President Barack Obama's goals where he wanted to tackle both healthcare and student loans.
The bill was passed in the House of Representatives by getting 178 Republican votes and
33Decomcrats voting against its passage. When it was taken to the Senate which was initially
against it, amendments were made, and two provisions were struck out. It meant that the bill had
to be sent back to the House to deal with the reconciliation rules which it had violated in its
budgeting.
The purpose of Act was to address the health care reform, and the other was to discuss the
student loan reform. This paper will focus more on the healthcare aspect (Albright et al. 2011).
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which had been passed into law seven days
before the Health Care Act had some of its aspects changed. The changes included delaying to
implement the taxing of Cadillac Health-Care plans until the year 2018, doctors who were in
charge of Medicare patients to get their reimbursements, lowering the cost of penalty for those
who delayed buying insurance from $750 to $695, increasing the tax credits required to purchase
insurance and ensuring that there was a Medicare tax put for families who had their earnings
above the $250,000 mark annually (Hansen et al. 2011).
I chose this act because from a personal perspective it highlights the plight of the low-income
earners of the United States. It acknowledges that there are citizens who may not be able to