“The Great Debate of 2017” presented by The Cazenovia College Debate Society was a remarkable experience. Going into the debate, I was often bored about healthcare. I did not care to hear about it nor did I want to discuss the issue. However, the students who debated over the public insurance option of federal healthcare made the topic easy to understand and more interesting. I enjoyed the ease of listening to the facts and examples they provided as well as their complicated structures they pursued. The opening arguments started the debate off well, giving a brief overview of the topic and the closing arguments ended the debate phenomenally. I believe everyone gave a clear and concise argument and the statements they made were fantastic. The
The idea is to create a government-run health care plan that would be an alternative to the private insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act, or provide a fallback in markets where insurers have been pulling out. A public option could also be a way to stabilize the exchanges because a government-run plan could be used to enroll the people with the most expensive medical conditions. The private insurers would be more enthusiastic about selling policies because they might have to worry less about losses. Public option is simply a public health insurance agency, typically a government-run agency that can compete with the private insurers. This is sort of a half-way point between single payer and the pre- ACA private market. Almost
Arthur Erickson said that, “Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today”. In Rome got two kinds of government, and there were Roman Empire and Roman Republic. Both of them had different structures to development on many aspects in Rome such as laws, equality and rights of life’s Roman where Rome wanted a democratic system. Although, it has helped later to now, in that time was a conflict where it created a war.
Thank you Peter for your post. I completely agree with you, Obamacare has powerfully managed to force citizens into purchasing a product sponsored by the government i.e. health insurance, by imposing a fine to anyone who has not purchased the before-mentioned product. This is agreeably the government overstepping its boundaries. Obamacare, bailing out distressed businesses, and war caused the U.S. to over-extend itself and is now trillions of dollars in debt. The authority often disputes that it is preserving industries that are too essential to the country to perish. By this they indicate if the industry collapsed the country’s economy would be in peril. As an interesting note, Hank Greenberg's filed a suit against the U.S. government for
On March 2010 president Barack Obama signed the Affordable Car Act commonly known as the Obama Care. The purpose of Affordable Car Act was to “establish the basic legal protections that until now have been absent: a near-universal guarantee of access to affordable health insurance coverage, from birth through retirement. Obama Care implicates that the responsibility of near-universal coverage is among the government, individuals, and employees”. Evidently, the most important reason is “aim to improve the fairness, quality, and affordability of health insurance”. While the benefits of the Affordable Car Act expressed good intentions there were still many people against the new Health Care Act. Americans had not seen the government pass a major
In a country where healthcare is a decision, many debate if our country should keep our health care system privatized. Health care is an essential need in society because individual health can change at any time without warning at any time. While there are both pros and cons of this system, the pros outway the cons. I believe that our nation should ensure basic health care to all legal citizens, no matter the class. Many Americans fall into circumstances where they are not able to pay the expensive bills that privatized insurance companies billhave so they do not have chose to not have insurance at all. Universal health care gives those people the means of financial support when they medically need
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly well known as the affordable Care Act or ObamaCare is an U.S. law planned to reform the American health care system. The Affordable Care Act’s main focus is to provide more Americans with affordable health insurance, but when this all began. The Affordable Care Act may have signed by the President Barack Obama but truth is The Affordable Care Act is the result of decades of ideas from both parties. Since 1989 parties have tried to improve this idea that is suppose to help Americans; The Health Security Act was introduces on November 20, 1993 by President Bill Clinton, and the 2006 Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, legally titled An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality,
Based on what the student has learned, there were pros and cons with the onset of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Also, the student believes that there are ways to improve the law as well. The ACA was intended to give Americans choice in having health insurance. Although, there was a penalty implemented if the people did not take advantage of the opportunity given. One benefit that the student found is that ACA lowered health care cost. One great example of that is the free preventive care, in which it offers free vaccinations and birth control. Second, to avoid taxpayer’s contribution, previous conditions had to be covered with insurance plans. This next one was very beneficial to the student’s last employment. Businesses with 50 or more employees
In January of 1940, Zedong Mao delivered a speech during a liberal conference in Yan’an, the center of communism and socialism in China. In the speech, Mao argued that the fate of Chinese revolution must be held in hands of proletariats, and as a leading result, the revolution must construct China as a socialism country. Two decades ago, in 1921, Shanghai, Korean communists also declared their country’s independence by publishing The Manifesto of Korean Communist Party. Bothered by Japan’s invasion on their country, Korean Communists severely criticized on Japanese colonists’ dominance on their
On March 23, 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama, raising the question for many of whether this new law was going to be more helpful or hurtful. With universal healthcare, healthcare coverage would be increased tremendously, costs would be reduced, jobs would be created, and consumers would be protected. Conversely, it will also raise taxes and wait times, lead to a smaller number of doctors, and infringe on some employers’ 1st amendment rights. Presenting both arguments for and against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act allows one to draw a conclusion on whether the new program will benefit or hinder the citizens of the United States.
Health care has been a controversial topic of discussion for all Americans since it was put in effect many years ago. Currently the biggest debate of Healthcare up to date is Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a Health care Reform that is a governmental attempt to make basic health care easily obtainable. However, there are no benefits without cost in situations like this, and upon that are different viewpoints on the subject thus creating political debates discussing if it is ethically correct. The overall goal that Obamacare hopes to accomplish is that through specific changes through insurance companies, industry standards, and patient guarantees a healthier America will be produced. Obamacare has its ups and downs for both the generally agreeing democratic viewpoints and the opposing republican side. Both viewpoints have their own beliefs about how Health care works and Obamacare is somewhat in between on this. Most arguments on Obamacare deal with Medicaid being constitutional and if Obamacare truly reduces the total cost of health care for individuals and in the government.
We all are in need of healthcare. Obama care, which is also referred as Affordable Care Act was signed on March 23 2010 by President Obama. The Obama care has its side effects which are good and bad. I will be discussing some of the pros and cons about the Obama care. What Obama care does is gives the people a quality health insurance and where they can afford a health insurance.
Healthcare sits at the center of a major debate in America today. There are a number of questions that surround this debate. Some argue that healthcare should be a right that people are entitled to, while others argue for a system where healthcare is more of a luxury. Overall, the political environment surrounding healthcare in America has been shifting and also the topic of much consternation over the last three to four years. In order to understand this particular situation, one must approach it from a number of different sociological perspectives. Specifically, functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism can help to provide a framework in which one can analyze the actions, thoughts, and perspectives of actors on all sides of the healthcare situation. Functionalism theory can explain why many believe that healthcare is such an important element for society to strive toward, conflict theory can help to explain why there is opposition to this concept, and interactionist theory can explain why Americans have attached so strongly to both sides of this debate, as certain symbols have become important to those people, and in some cases, has become more important than the principles that tend to underlie this particular debate.
The latest health care reform has done what few policies manage to do – sicken both republicans and progressive democrats. While we can all agree that a reform of the health care system is sorely needed, we must also acknowledge that “Obamacare” is not the cure-all we so desperately require. Rather, President Obama, like a medieval barber, prescribed a health care reform that treated the symptoms of our flawed system rather than the actual disease. The subsidization of health insurance providers has proven ineffective at providing affordable coverage for all. Certainly one is likely to hear the various incendiary talking points of both the proponents and opponents. Whether it’s the republican candidates blaspheming Obamacare as socialism, or the administration praising the success of health care for all, it is difficult to actually find constructive dialogue. We are purview to many sound bites, but few actual solutions. We have witnessed heated debates, but rarely do we witness intelligent discourse. If beneficial reform is to be crafted and implemented, we must first acknowledge the issues and inconsistencies of the current system and begin to explore alternate methods of providing health care to the American people.
In recent years, health care has been a huge topic in public debates, legislations, and even in deciding who will become the next president. There have been many acts, legislations, and debates on what the country has to do in regards to health care. According to University of Phoenix Read Me First HCS/235 (n.d.), “How health care is financed influences access to health care, how health care is delivered, the quality of health care provided, and its cost”.
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