Health and Healing in America

Mon 4/10 Obamacare 2010-20xx? Reading:Summary of the Affordable Care Act (Kaiser Family Foundation), also posted as a PDF on Blackboard, and Obama’s Speech to Congress, Sept 2009 (recommended viewing it as given @ 47 minutes, or read transcript). Please BRING LAPTOPS, we will be looking at some additional online resources in class. Response #3 is due in the Blackboard Response Journal before class, see the prompt on Blackboard.

In Class: Google Doc

Additional resources:

What is the ACA and How Does it Work?

Cliff Notes Version of the Affordable Care Act (Forbes.com, July 2012)
Summary of Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamacareFacts.com)

Supreme Court ruling – National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sibelius (June 2012)

NPR Live-Blogged Coverage
NPR Health “Scope” Blog Coverage
A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Decision on the ACA Medicaid’s Expansion (KFF)

Kaiser Family Foundation “YouToon” Explanation Videos

2010: “Health Care Reform Hits Main Street”

2013: The YouToons Get Ready for ObamaCare

2014: Health Insurance Explained, the YouToons Have it Covered

Wed 4/12 Costs and Comparisons – Disease Paper is due at classtime.

Obviously, this topic is getting a tsunami of media coverage, so this is only a tiny fraction of the possible resources. But as a starting point… follow AT LEAST ONE link from each section below to prepare for our discussion.

General
New York Times – Topic / Health Care Reform
Kaiser Family Foundation – Health Care Reform
Pew Research – Topics: Health Care
Wikipedia (PROCEED WITH CAUTION): ACA / AHCA / Healthcare Reform in the US

Comparative Perspectives
How Health Care Works Around the World (CNN, 17 Mar 2017)
US Health Care from a Global Perspective (CommonwealthFund, 2015)
US Health Care v. The World (George Washington University School of Public Health, 8 Feb 2017)

Costs
Those Indecipherable Medical Bills (New York Times, March 29, 2017)
$10,345 Per Person: US Health Care Spending Reaches New Peak (PBS, July 2016 – and here’s the Health Affairs report they’re referring to)
Topic: Health Costs (Kaiser Family Foundation)
The US Spends More on Health Care Than Any Other Country. Here’s What We’re Buying (Washington Post, 27 Dec 2016)
US Health Care Expenditures using 2015 Data (CDC FastStats, January 2017)
“More Is Less” Podcast / Transcript (This American Life, 9 Oct 2009)

Comparing ACA (“ObamaCare”) to AHCA (2017 Republican Health Care Plan)
Compare Proposals to Replace the Affordable Care Act (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Where Both the ACA and ACHA Fall Short (Harvard Business Review, 21 Mar 2017)
A Side-By-Side Comparison of Obamacare and the GOP’s Replacement Plan (LA Times, 8/21 Mar 2017)
Wikipedia (PROCEED WITH CAUTION): 2017 Replacement Proposals / Pre-2017 Replacement Proposals & Efforts to Repeal

Political Perspectives
Republican Health Care Vote: Everything You Need to Know (NBCNews, 23 Mar 2017)
Why Republicans Hate ObamaCare (The Economist, Dec 2016)
The Case Against ObamaCare (GOP.com, 2011)
2016 Republican Party Platform / 2012 Republican Party Platform
2016 Democratic Party Platform
Who/What is the House Freedom Caucus? (PewResearch.org, 20 October 2015)
American College of Physicians (Opposed to AHCA)