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When it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all three branches of the United States government play their own role when it comes to this enacted legislation. Beyond that, the idea of federalism and federal supremacy clearly come into play given that the states are largely at the mercy and whim of what the federal government mandates. Even with that, the individual parts of the government at both levels and the roles that they have to play (at the federal level in particular) need to be mentioned and covered. While there has been a lot of acrimony and testy exchanges when it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the program is established and verified law in the United States right now and there is not any current prospects of that changing.
Analysis
As noted in the introduction, there are three distinct parts of the United States government and each of them play their own part when it comes to the PPACA. The President is the party who signed the law, that being President Barack Obama. A new President coming into the picture in early 2017 will not change that, at least not in and of itself. Beyond that, the President is the person who leads his Cabinet of executives and advisors. When it...
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