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I remember when the news hit that fracking would be banned in NY state last semester – I was actually happy with something the state government did. And I couldn’t even remember the last time I felt that. With a crippling education system being instituted and an increase in income inequality, this was good news […]

Judging the term “fracking” strictly on the merits of the word and not on its definition, it sounds like something I would not support. Seeing a billboard of “I support fracking” promoted, would turn me off to whatever “fracking” is. Basically, the word itself is just unpleasant. The full term hydraulic fracturing doesn’t make it seem any nicer. Now once […]

The issue of universal health care has been a topic of hot debate in the last few years since President Obama implemented the Affordable Care Act aka (Obama Care). The articles we read today gave an interesting perspective on an important issue in this debate of how effective is this policy and who is it helping […]

Prior to the assigned reading, I hadn’t given Obama’s Affordable Care Act much thought, as it did not apply to me. Under the health insurance of both my mother and father, my siblings and I are covered under city and state plans. I found that it was very interesting to see the breakdown of demographics […]

To be honest, I have never really studied or researched about health care before tonight. My family is covered by Medicaid, which I believe is subsidized under Obamacare. I do not to this day, know what is covered and what isn’t except the fact that my pre-teen braces costs were covered entirely, I can get […]

I like how the NY Times article provides two different viewpoints of being insured and uninsured. While the insured patients have very hopeful stories about finding out about terrible illnesses and being able to cure it because of the insurancfe, there is also the other side to consider. There are weaknesses in the Affordable Care […]

The NY Times article named “Obama’s Health Law: Who Was Helped Most​” has an interactive graph and shows mainly mid to southern west with 10 percent more insured. What I found most interesting was that the total opposite, mid to south east of the United States remains uninsured in the year of 2014. Some facts were somewhat […]

One of the biggest, defining moments of the past decade is the passing of the Affordable Care Act. For years, the healthcare industry has been largely unregulated and expensive. Only those who could afford high premiums or had an employer willing to pay would be insured. This left millions of Americans uninsured and at risk. […]

The Affordable Healthcare Act has been argued about heavily. Many dislike it due to the fear that Americans will stop working and just collect their healthcare without any effort. However it is clear that the Healthcare Act has benefitted multiple demographics across the board and will increasingly have a positive effect on the American population. […]

After reading the Forbes article criticizing Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk, I thought that the writer was extremely critical of his talk, dismissing all of Nick Hanauer’s points and calling Nick’s talk plain ignorant on the issues at hand. Looking back at the talk we watched a few days ago, I too was skeptical at the […]

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