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However, the company spokesman mark Schurman later said the issue was not the reform bill at all but rather it was the "…uncertainty as to what reform is going to look like" after the Supreme Court makes its ruling (Rosenthal, 1).
In Gary Langer's ABC News article he quotes from an ABC News / Washington Post poll that shows that 62% of respondents would prefer a "universal health insurance program" above the current program in which employers do or do not provide insurance. Currently, "Seventy-eight percent are dissatisfied with the cost of the nation's health care system," Langer writes (Langer, 2012, p. 1).
Some Americans who can afford health insurance put off getting it because either it is just too expensive, or the deductible has to be kept high in order to afford it -- which causes huge financial problems when a person is hurt of seriously ill. Langer's article claims that 23% of Americans say they -- or someone in their family -- has "…put off medical treatment in the last year because of the cost" (p. 2). Interestingly, the poll that Langer references shows that eighty percent of those say it is more important to provide health care coverage "for all Americans, even if it means raising taxes," then to hold down taxes and leave millions uninsured (p. 3).
Another problem that has arisen as a result of the Affordable Care Act is the loud, abrasive and constant drumbeat of misinformation being spewed forth on radio and television. Right wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh have aggressively put forward not just misinformation but smears and outrageously toxic propaganda about the legislation. For example, for people who are in the dark about national affairs in general (and
On Monday, March 26, Limbaugh asserted that "…What we're going through is a power grab by Democrat forces on the left to fundamentally rewrite the Constitution case by case…to take over the federal government with them in charge" (Lopata, 2012). That is an absolutely outrageous statement, but unfortunately, uninformed / ignorant listeners in many cases will believe that smear, and hence, another layer of misinformation is out there to confuse and anger people.
In conclusion, the truth about healthcare and insurance in the U.S. is that this country is the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide healthcare for all citizens. Moreover, when Obama tried to put together legislation to ensure that most Americans would be covered, he faced huge challenges -- along with bitter opposition and vicious smears -- and now the SCOTUS holds the power to approve or disapprove the bill. Moreover, it is covered in this paper that more people die when they don't have insurance, and that some people who can afford health insurance don't get it because it is too expensive.
Works Cited
Langer, Gary. "Health Care Pains / Growing Health Care Concerns Fuel Cautious Support for Change." ABC News. Retrieved June 13, 2012, from http://abcnews.go.com.
Lopata, Michelle. "Rush: Obamacare Is Leftist Power Grab to Rewrite Constitution."
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Reinhardt, Uwe E. "Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk?" KCET. Retrieved June 13, 2012, from http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/exprts_intrvw/u_reinhardt.htm.
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