Pros And Cons Of Obamacare

There has been different opinions on why politicians make some policy decisions, politics and need tends to pull many politicians in conflicting directions. Therefore, between politics and need, which one triumphs? Is it politics? Or is it need? Barrilleaux and Rainey tried to show why some state government opposed the Obamacare. The Obamacare has advantages that would help to cover a large portion of US citizens who did not have health insurance, for example if Texas had accepted this health insurance it would have been able to prevent between 3000 and 1800 deaths, but because there was a Supreme Court ruling that granted states to opt out of the plan, some of them did. So why would these states refuse this money? Barrilleaux and Rainey found …show more content…
Kelly and Witko used unemployment as an example. While most states can influence a large number of policies that can influence unemployment, they also face restrictions that hinders the use of their public policy that determines employment results, and this restraints are most severe during periods of economic recessions. These restraints occur due to balanced budget requirements whereby states cannot just use fiscal policy to offshoot employment in times of economic recession because they would have to increase taxes to encourage spending, and an increase in taxes could counterbalance any advantage gotten from increased expenditures. Even with all the policy restrictions that the state governments face, Kelly and Witko showed that the states still play important roles in the economy as regards employment. Even with the persistent holdup in Washington D.C., states have taken control in handling problems that matter like income inequality, poverty and unemployment, even when they have limited ability during periods of major economic downturns when the need for government intervention is greatest. Kelly and Witko showed that as the economy improves states will have more options to influence employment effects if they decide to do so. Daley et al. also showed how state governments use execution decision once granted. Specifically, they influence variation in institutional environments and problem conditions to investigate the factors associated with state drinking water investment decisions. The major focus of their study is the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), which is a program that provides grants to states, the states then make use of these funds to provide little or no interest rate loans to local communities to improve drinking water

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