Thursday, April 1, 2010

Health Care Reform and You

For weeks it has been impossible to turn on any news network or read any paper without being bombarded with the health care debate. In a way this is a good thing since this bill has the power to affect the entire United States. Unfortunately, even with all the coverage, citizens are still left scratching their heads.



The public is very much in the dark into certain aspects of the bill even now that it has been passed. People are asking



  1. Who is affected by the bill?

  2. What does the bill do?

  3. How am I helped/harmed?
These questions are only made more confusing by graphs and statistics that are impossible to read.

An example is this Gallup poll concerning the increased popularity of the bill now that it has been passed.

Publications like The New York Times have had to make special articles just to attempt to explain the bill to our citizens. According to The New York Times citizens that are completely uninsured are those most affected by the new bill. Up to 32 million people may now be able to be insured regardless of if they have been denied previously.

After reading all of this I am left with one thought, why arent those behind the bill able to explain it to the people? Why does it have to fall on publications to show the American people how their lives will be changed?
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  1. SarahMApril 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    Your graph fit perfectly into the point you were making about the health care issue. Not only is the graph highly confusing, but it also doesn't say much regarding the issue.

    It would have been nice if you explained what you specifically find confusing about this graphic. I believe the graphic is not clearly labeled. It also doesn't tell the viewer a whole lot about the issue.

    The article you chose was interesting and you tied it into your blog nicely. I think it would have been more interesting if you could have found an article that attempted to explain the health care bill, yet it was just as confusing as the graph is.

    I agree that many people are confused by the health care bill, even with it already being passed. A lot of people do not understand how it affects them. The health care issue has been all over the news, as you mentioned, but not a whole lot of news coverage is dedicated to explaining what the bill does.

    I agree that it should not be the responsibility of publications to inform the American citizens. It should be the responsibility of those in charge of creating and passing the bill. Politicians have just been assuming that American citizens understand what is going on.

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