The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) has a goal to expand coverage, control healthcare costs, and improve the health care delivery system. Being one of the last wealthy countries without a universal healthcare plan, the website launch of Healthcare.gov on October 1, 2013 was supposed to be a ground breaking event in the fact that The United States government was moving towards a healthcare system where private insurance companies would have government implemented regulations and subsidides to ensure universal coverage and non-dicrimination; however, this change was soon seen as an international concern. The Republican opposition, in an effort to stop the program, is expanding what was once a national uncertainty of the program into a worldwide debate by focusing on the failed website launch and civilian difficulties of actually enrolling for health insurance. Both conservative and liberal news sources in The United States report on the same information leading up to the website glitches, but twist the facts, using logical fallacies, in favor of their political views which only furthers international concern involving Obamacare and its future in America. The differing of opinions and often rivalry between the political parties in The United States is known to everyone. Their news stations have the same information but it is shared with the people in accordance to their views. Fox News released an article titled “Emails Show Officials Warned of Obamacare Website ‘Crash’ in July” which gives in detail the concerns between the Healthcare.gov project manager Henry Chao and government officals of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; however, a more liberal news article published by David Morgan in the Huffin... ... middle of paper ... .... Works Cited “White House officials were warned of Obamacare glitches” www.bbc.co.uk. Web. 25 November 2013 Shear, Michael D., and Robert Pear. "Obama Admits Web Site Flaws on Health Law." New York Times 21 Oct. 2013. Web. 25 November 2013 “Emails show officials warned of ObamaCare website 'crash' in July” www.foxnews.com. Web. 26 November 2013 Morgan, David. “Obamacare Report: Obama Administration Knew About Health Care Law's Rollout Risks Last Spring” www.huffingtonpost.com. Nov. 19. 2013 Web. November 26 2013 “Man Who Understands 8% Of Obamacare Vigorously Defends It From Man Who Understands 5%” www.theonion.com. Sep. 26. 2013. Web. 26 November 2013 “The Obamacare software mess” The Economist Oct. 12. 2013 Print. Hiltzik, Michael. “Oops! John Boehner's Obamacare stunt backfires” LA Times Nov. 22. 2013. Web. 26 November 2013.
One of the most controversial topics in the United States in recent years has been the route which should be undertaken in overhauling the healthcare system for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. It is important to note that the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make healthcare affordable; it provides low-cost, government-subsidized insurance options through the State Health Insurance Marketplace (Amadeo 1). Our current president, Barack Obama, made it one of his goals to bring healthcare to all Americans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This plan, which has been termed “Obamacare”, has come under scrutiny from many Americans, but has also received a large amount of support in turn for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include a decrease in insurance discrimination on the basis of health or gender and affordable healthcare coverage for the millions of uninsured. The opposition to this act has cited increased costs and debt accumulation, a reduction in employer healthcare coverage options, as well as a penalization of those already using private healthcare insurance.
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Fox News is constantly being bombarded with accusations of media bias, furthermore, a number of different instances of have occurred which question the validity of Fox News (Groeling). These instances occur throughout normal news broadcasts. Some of the more recent, and grossly biased broadcasts, were from the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Historically the Fox News Channel is known to lean heavily to the right, or on the republican spectrum. President Barrack Obama’s political party is widely known to the public as being democratic. Statistically, to this day according to studies over 17 million households receive some form of the Fox News Channel (Auletta). The Fox News Channel is published through a number of different channels to its viewers. These channels include: Television, radio, newspaper, internet and more increasingly electro...
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A good part of Outfoxed focuses on the company's blurring of news and commentary, how anchormen and reporters are encouraged to repeatedly use catch-phrases like "some people say..." as a means of editorializing within a supposedly objective news story; how graphics, speculation and false information are repeated over-and-over throughout the broadcast day until it appears to become fact, and in doing so spreads like a virus and copied on other networks. A PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll points to glaring, fundamental misconceptions about the news perpetuated upon Fox viewers, versus information received from widely respected news-gathering organizations like NPR and PBS. Asked, for instance, "Has the U.S. found links between Iraq & al-Qaeda?" only 16% of PBS and NPR viewers answered "yes," but a frightening 67% of Fox viewers believed there had.
In the early years of 2009 to 2010 the political process pushed health care through legislation led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Health care and government, 2013). This process was extraordinarily tiring, as many defenders of the bills passing were present. Many congressional members “dug their heels in”, and wanted to slow down the process even more as confusion about the bill was posed (Health care and government, 2013). Despite opposition by many sides of the American people, a Democrat-dominated House of Representatives passed the bill and the Affordable Care Act was signed into action on March 21, 2010 (Hogberg, 2013). Indeed, all three branches of government were instrumental with the passing the Affordable Care Act into place.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
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Health insurance, too many American citizens, is not an option. However, some citizens find it unnecessary. Working in the health care field, I witness the effects of uninsured patients on medical offices. Too often, I see a “self-pay” patient receive care from their doctor and then fail to pay for it. Altogether, their refusal to pay leaves the office at a loss of money and calls for patients to pay extra in covering for the cost of the care the uninsured patient received. One office visit does not seem like too big of an expense, but multiple patients failing to pay for the care they receive adds up. Imagine the hospital bills that patients fail to pay; health services in a hospital are double, sometimes triple, in price at a hospital. It is unfair that paying patients are responsible for covering these unpaid services. Luckily, the Affordable Care Act was passed on March 23, 2010, otherwise known as Obamacare. Obamacare is necessary in America because it calls for all citizens to be health insured, no worrying about pre-existing conditions, and free benefits for men and women’s health.
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