In High School, I had a history teacher that taught us the utility of analyzing the possible biases of every source. Ever since, I have been looking for biases that could bring the validity of information into question. The data cited from How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premiums wreaked of bias to me. What I would be looking for in an unbiased study is it being conducted by a 3rd party organization where the funding has no link to any parties involved with the data output. A study on government policy, created by the government, has no validity to me because the people who published the study, regardless of political affiliation, are all trying to get their own agendas pushed through into law. This point was brought up by a student on the side of the argument that opposed government-run healthcare.

Another point that this student also brought to the class is that government programs are inefficient. Regardless of our stances on this issue, no one wanted a less efficient health care system. The reason that the government is less efficient that a private company is that a private company is forced to constantly trim its expenses and maximize its profitability in order to fulfill its obligations and stay alive. If a government program wants to incur more expenditures, they don’t have to reduce their expenses at all, the program can simply add funding through additional tax dollars.