...Running head: HEALTHCARE REFORM 1 Obamacare or Socialism? Daun Taylor POL201 American National Government Professor Martin Connor August 27, 2012 HEALTHCARE REFORM 2 Obamacare or Socialism? There has been much of a debate since the signing of President Barack Obama’s Healthcare Bill. People started throwing around words like government control and socialism, stating that it was a description of a new legislation. The people are afraid that the system will destroy the free market economy and will take away the people’s right to choose. “The massive law pushing the United States toward universal health coverage won Supreme Court validation on June 28 in a decision that advances the most ambitious reshaping of American social policy in generations (Woodward, C. 2012).” They have repeatedly said that this bill is constitutionally questionable and the government does not have the right to obligate the whole nation to purchase healthcare insurance. According to the opposition, President Obama is lobbying for disguised tax on employment and consequently the number of uninsured Americans will increase. “The overhaul is unfolding in stages and is to peak in 2014 when all Americans will be required to have health insurance, with a few narrow exceptions (Woodward, C. 2010).” In...
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...prohibition. -child welfare Child welfare was a reform that people didn’t see to clearly because they would leave their kids to do the work of a grown person. There were many problems with that parents would have very tired kids that have been working all day which cause them to miss school and other kid things. A few people and places that helped make this better were Lillian Wald on Henry street settlement in New York. The federal children’s boreal helped keep the children out of these sweat shops. -Prohibition Alcohol was a major part of woman getting beaten up by there husbands. The woman’s christen temperance union (wctu) were one of the main people to help stop the sell buy and producing of alcoholic beverages. Frances Willard was the head of the wctu from 1879 to 1898 which made the wctu force for temperance and for the rights of women -civil rights Many people were not allowed there rights such as being a girl and being able to work. African Americans fought for some of the same rights as white people such as ending poverty expanding child welfare. The national association of colored women was one of the largest organizations of African American women which were founded in 1896. By the 1916s the organization had more than 100,000 members and campaigned against poverty and segregation and, lynching. To conclude my presentation of one of the three most important reforms Id like to state that the prohibition reform was the worst one because people would get abused...
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...intelligent well educated athletes. There are just as many athletically talented academics. Either/Or 3. Any change in healthcare will lead to socialism; we don’t want to live in a socialist country, so we can’t reform health care in any way. To say that reforming healthcare would completely change how society operates is a giant leap. There can be healthcare reform without creating a socialist United States. Slippery Slope 4. All teenagers’ text while they drive, therefore we should raise the driving age to 21. To say all teenagers is an inaccurate generalization. To raise the driving age to 21 would solve the problem of teen texting while driving is not logical. Hasty Generalization 5. If we don’t all drive hybrid cars, the world will end in the next decade of environmental damage. There is no evidence to support a claim that the world will end in 10 years if we do not all switch to hybrid vehicles. The statement goes straight to the most dramatic result conceivable however unlikely it is. Slippery Slope 6. Senator Range has been seen entering a strip club; therefore his economic reforms are not plausible Though perhaps immoral to some, such action has no bearing on the ability of the Senator to create plausible economic reform. One of these actions is part of personal life, the other is an action specific to professional life. Red Herring 7. Everyone else is getting rid of TV therefore we should too. The only argument presented is...
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...influential ways to make a difference, and there truly is a way for everyone to express their feelings. There’s art, literature, videos, photography, giving each person a way to be artistically heard. Media gives an individual who may feel like a speck in the world, a bullhorn so they can be heard by millions. Media doesn’t just reach to the people who it was originally directed to, it can reach to many different groups of people and eventually the world, making it an empowering way for your opinion to be heard. It seems like whenever there is a political debate or the news is on, issues regarding schools are constantly brought up. School reform is something that our government is always trying to regulate, but are these politicians always the best qualified to make the decisions about schools? Students are never asked their opinions on the reforms and laws that are directly impacting their education and consequently their lives. Documentaries are frequently made regarding issues in schools, but they are from the point of view of people not directly involved in the issue, giving it an outside clear view on what the issue truly...
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...During the turn of the 19th century, Toronto became part of the industrialization and urbanization phase. With that came the migration of single women to the city, women who left their small towns in order to find paid jobs in the city of Toronto. These were young single women who broke free from the unpaid working women of the past, although their freedom to work came with a price. While these young working girls were trying to make into the world, many discouraged such notions of working in the city factories and shops due to the idea that these women would jepordize their shift into a housewife or motherhood. This idea was known as the girl problem, a delimma that needed to be dealt with because of the cross between exploiting women for cheap labor or creating women who would be healthy, respectable mothers someday. While these women worked to stay alive, they were given low wages, while men who worked were paid much higher. Their freedom as working women who spent their time working during the day and shopping and entertaining themselves was looked upon as suspicious. Due to suspicions of women working, the police developed a way of monitoring what women did in the public sphere. Also an oganizaiton known as YWCA became over-seerers of women, they began to deecide wh was a retspectable women or who was a deviant in society. Many of these women just wanted to have the same freedoms that a single man might have, they face discrimintation in the workplace and were serverly...
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...Maitri A Shah English 4/12/2016 Should immigration laws be reformed Promising freedom and opportunity, the United States attracts individuals to come to the USA. But the current immigration system in the united states is broken: families are isolated, immigration workers are exploited, people die trying to cross the border, and there is rampant discrimination. The government should be for reforming immigration laws because it keeps families together and creates rational process of citizenship for new Americans etc. The first reason why immigration should be reformed is economy benefits by immigration reforms. Immigration reform would increase U.S. GDP by at least 0.84 percent. According to the American immigration council, “This would translate into at least a $1.5 trillion cumulative increase in GDP over 10 years, which includes approximately $1.2 trillion in consumption and $256 billion in investment”. Second, immigration system can uphold children’s basic human rights and ensure access to critical public services, programs, and economic supports for children and their families. It can ensure that children receive legal representation before all immigration authorities and, for all unaccompanied children, the appointment of an independent child advocate from the moment of detention throughout the course of any immigration or other related court proceedings. The other reason is it keeps family together Under today’s broken immigration system, many...
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...Running head: HEALTHCARE REFORM 1 Obamacare Ericka Silva POL201 American National Government Nicole Jones May 27, 2013 HEALTHCARE REFORM 2 Obamacare Since the passing of President Barack Obama’s Healthcare Bill there has been a lot of a dispute. People have made accusations that this is a way for government control and socialism. Many people are frightened that the arrangement will extinguish the free market economy. They also believe that it will take away the people’s right to make a choice. “The massive law pushing the United States toward universal health coverage won Supreme Court validation on June 28 in a decision that advances the most ambitious reshaping of American social policy in generations (Woodward, C. 2012).” There have been many who have said repetitively that this bill is constitutionally uncertain. There are many people who also say the government does not have the right to force the whole nation to buy healthcare insurance. There is a disagreement that President Obama is urging for cloaked tax on employment. This will make the amount of uninsured Americans increase. “The overhaul is unfolding in stages and is to peak in 2014 when all Americans will be required to have health insurance, with a few narrow exceptions (Woodward, C. 2010).” On the other side of all this, Obama said that it will spread the health coverage to an additional 30+ million people. In doing this it will decrease the cost considerably. The legislation...
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...Tiffany Husband Utilization Paper HCS/235 Terresa Randolph Nov. 26, 2012 Currently in America, there are very few Americans who have health insurance, and the number is becoming fewer and fewer every day. Statistic shows that there are more than 46 million Americans with no health insurance. This has become a major crisis due to the fact that employers have stopped insuring their employees because the cost is so high. The total cost in United States was more than 2.4 trillion dollars in 2007. Our President and congress agree that they system needs to be changed, however there is no solid agreement on what how it should be changed. The health care reform is a continuous debate, but there are has yet to be a solution found. Over recent years there have been major discussions about the health care reform. One of the major problems is that Health care is becoming more and more expensive, and no one seems to know why it continues to become more expensive. However, with such costly premiums fewer and fewer Americans are becoming not insured. Due to this, the United States is facing unprecedented crisis in access to health care. Since the beginning of the recession there have been growing numbers of Americans who can no longer depend on health care coverage from their employers. Because of the recession this number has continued to accelerate. There is an increasing demand for health care services, but there are not enough physicians or specialist to meet this type of demand. Health...
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...The high increase in the cost of health care has left many Americans struggling to pay their medical bills. Workers are complaining they are not able to afford the high premiums for health insurance. Many employers are cutting back as well as doing away with health benefits, which are causing millions of more people to be in the uninsured position. With programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, the federal government and state are lacking to meet the increasing costs. In the United States, the health care costs are a lot higher than other advanced nation. According to The Common Wealth Fund, the number of uninsured went from “39.8 million to 43.6 million,” a 9.5 percent jump, from the year 2000 to 2002. (Davis, 2004) “Rising health care costs are a problem for all Americans, but they weigh especially heavily on uninsured and “underinsured” individuals, who pay much of the cost of their health care directly out-of-pocket.” (The Common Wealth Fund, 2004) The higher the costs are to patients, will result in the underuse of suitable care and cause a great financial burden on the sick. After some thoroughly research, I have found that the Single-Payer Health System is the way for the future in the United States. We are no longer able to afford and/or tolerate careless spending on care that is not beneficial to patients or the repeat of over costly and unnecessary procedures. Below is a chart from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, showing the number of persons without...
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...Individuals in the United States English 215, SEC 035BVA016, Strayer University Abstract The availability and cost of healthcare for the majority of people living in the United States was researched to try and understand as to why so many are left without any affordable options once they have lost their jobs or have reached retirement age. The goal of this paper was to thoroughly examine healthcare reform and the possible options that may become available to the people in the United States while focusing on the problems many will face once the law takes effect and they are unable to make such purchases with their current income only being forced to pay fines. Healthcare reform should provide assistance to those who are unable to purchase insurance on their own and further assist those who currently have insurance. The fear among the people it that it will only further cause low-income families to be faced with a larger problem of having to cover fines because of their lack of funding to make such purchases. Only time will tell which way this reform will lean towards with the inception date of 2014 when all will be required to carry medical insurance or be faced with unwelcomed penalties. Healthcare: A Problem Facing Many Individuals in the United States Healthcare, the cost and availability for the average individual living in the United States has become a major issue which many are now being faced with especially after the attacks on the United...
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...Sunnie Merritt English102 (online) Expository Essay July 29, 2010 Confusion Over the US Health Reform Bill The latest poll out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-care-policy research organization, says only 27 percent of the public has been following the 2010 health reform debate closely. Despite this, more than half (56 percent) of Americans think health reform is more important than ever. Very smart people are zoning out of the health care reform debate because they think it’s just too complicated. The complexities of US health reform are a problem, because American citizens and politicians cannot make good decisions about an issue they do not clearly understand or have been misinformed. Defining the goals of reform is relatively easy. Implementing them is tough and that’s where people are made to feel stupid - partly by special interest groups who intentionally or unintentionally confuse the debate. According to John Lapook in an article posted on CBS News.com, at least one senator admits he has no intention of reading it. "I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because . . . the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life," Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) quotes to online news service in the article. Carper told CBSnews.com that the bill was "incomprehensible" and "hard stuff to understand. Carper stated he doubts his fellow members of the Senate Finance Committee will read their handiwork...
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...Compare and contrast demand for medical care and medical insurance. The first thing that needs to be done is to establish a relation between the quantity of medical service and the utility. This means the medical care market is primarily through it impact on out of pocket prices of health care services. There are some features that they focus on they are health insurance policies, coinsurance, co-payment, and deductibles. Utility analysis is suppose to be satisfying and going to the dentist is not satisfying at all but when going to and the dentist is done with the work that he has to do on you improved your smile and health. Utility analysis is overall improvement to quality of life. What that means is that a healthy person feels great and is in a better position to enjoy life. So going to the dentist and getting all that worked done improved you smile so that way you can enjoy life better with a gorgeous smile. Using the concept of price elasticity the total revenue will decrease because the quantity of demand falls. The fuzzy demand is a curve for medical care is reflecting the possibilities and the relationship between the price and quantity demand of medical care may not be exact or precisely known. It exist for medical care given uncertainty and the role of the physician. The implications are as follows a given price: quantity or types of medical service rendered. The second one is a given quantity an type of medical...
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...Comparing and Contrasting the U.S. Health Care System By Evelyn D. Bang October 17, 2010 Abstract Comparing and contrasting the U.S. health care system with that of other countries is not an easy task. There is a great deal of information that is not only organized in a number of different ways but also it is used to measure extensive and deviating factors. The conclusion will often depend on what is believed and which factors are the most important to the individuals performing the comparison and contrast of the different health care systems. However, the U.S. is presently considering a number of propositions in reforming its health care system and very often Canada is referred to as a potential model. Likewise, Canada at times looks to the U.S. for methods to improve its system. As a result, the pursuit for improvement in both health care systems has led to plentiful but compatible and incompatible documentation about the relative merits of the two systems (Madore 1992, para. 1). Comparing and Contrasting the U.S. Health Care System A healthcare system can be reviewed by many standards. It can be reviewed by its effectiveness and efficiency, its fairness and receptiveness to the expectations of its population. It can be reviewed through its non-discriminatory economic contributions and suitability and lastly, it can be reviewed through its population’s overall health. Comparing and contrasting the U.S and Canadian. Health care systems Both the Unites...
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...Assignment 1 Shante Trumpet Dr. Debbie Chotkevys HSA 510 10/21/11 Describe how you would assess the impact of the health care issue you selected in microeconomic terms. Most existing work on the price elasticity of demand for health insurance focuses on employees' decisions to enroll in employer-provided plans. However, any attempt to achieve universal coverage must focus on the uninsured, the vast majority of who are not offered employer-sponsored insurance. A survey was conducted to survey assess the willingness to pay for a health plan among a large sample of uninsured Americans. The experiment yields price elasticities substantially greater than those found in most previous studies. We use these results to estimate coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act, with and without an individual mandate. We estimate that 39 million uninsured individuals would gain coverage and find limited evidence of adverse selection. In the United States, the economy shapes the complex interactions among employment, health coverage, and costs, as well as financial access to care and health outcomes. In economic downturns, few employers drop health coverage or restrict employee eligibility. More commonly, they reduce costs by changing benefits and cost-sharing provisions. Employees in low-wage jobs, working in small firms, and those in certain industries have been far more likely than others to have been uninsured when they lost their jobs, but this recession is affecting a broader...
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...Catherine Hendrickson HLT255 February 12, 2012 Arizona Governor’s Efforts to Improve Access to Health Care The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) is the state of Arizona’s alternative to the conventional fee-for-service Medicaid system. Established in 1982, the system is built on a health maintenance organizational model (contracted providers are paid a prearranged capitation payment for services that are delivered to enrolled members) (Betlach, 2011). Eligibility into the AHCCCS program is gained through a mixture of state and federal programs, which for some, include also being qualified for a cash assistance program (for example, Supplemental Security Income (SSI)). The program operates on state, county, and federal funding to provide health care coverage to low-income families, acute and long-term care Medicaid patients, and small businesses. In essence, AHCCCS is a managed care system that allows members to choose their own providers, mainstreams clients, and emphasizes preventative services and high-quality health care (McCall, 1997). The AHCCCS program is responsible for three main areas: * Acute Care: Consists of a majority of pregnant women and children and also contains an emergency services only program for the population who does not qualify for full AHCCCS benefits due to immigration status (Kirkman-Liff, B., and Kronenfeld, J. (1994). * Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS): Provides long term care, acute care, case management, and...
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