{"id":189,"date":"2017-04-05T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:08:33","slug":"april-10-12-obamacare-2010-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/april-10-12-obamacare-2010-to-20\/","title":{"rendered":"April 10 &#038; 12 &#8211; ObamaCare, 2010 to 20&#8211;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pix.iemoji.com\/images\/emoji\/apple\/ios-9\/256\/hospital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pix.iemoji.com\/images\/emoji\/apple\/ios-9\/256\/hospital.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><strong>Mon 4\/10 Obamacare 2010-20xx?<\/strong> Reading:<a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/fact-sheet\/summary-of-the-affordable-care-act\/\">Summary of the Affordable Care Act<\/a> (Kaiser Family Foundation), also posted as a PDF on Blackboard, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/09\/10\/us\/politics\/20090910-obama-health.html?_r=0\">Obama&#8217;s Speech to Congress<\/a>, Sept 2009 (recommended viewing it as given @ 47 minutes, or read transcript). Please <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BRING LAPTOPS<\/strong><\/span>, we will be looking at some additional online resources in class. <strong>Response #3 is due in the Blackboard Response Journal before class, see the prompt on Blackboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Class: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1w-djMxw-rJ-IkJY1BYKoytvhla54Hp43pgyH6WuVgsM\/edit?usp=sharing\">Google Doc<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Additional resources:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the ACA and How Does it Work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolynmcclanahan\/2012\/07\/09\/cliffs-notes-version-of-the-affordable-care-act\/#25af1fa73955\">Cliff Notes Version of the Affordable Care Act<\/a> (Forbes.com, July 2012)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/obamacarefacts.com\/summary-of-provisions-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act\/\">Summary of Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/a> (ObamacareFacts.com)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supreme Court ruling &#8211; <em>National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sibelius <\/em>(June 2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2012\/06\/28\/155901105\/live-blog-the-health-care-ruling\">NPR Live-Blogged Coverage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2012\/06\/18\/155269171\/supreme-court-upholds-care-health-law-rules-mandate-is-a-tax\">NPR Health &#8220;Scope&#8221; Blog Coverage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/8347.pdf\">A Guide to the Supreme Court&#8217;s Decision on the ACA Medicaid&#8217;s Expansion<\/a> (KFF)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaiser Family Foundation &#8220;YouToon&#8221; Explanation Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2010: &#8220;Health Care Reform Hits Main Street&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-Ilc5xK2_E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2013: The YouToons Get Ready for ObamaCare<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZkk6ueZt-U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2014: Health Insurance Explained, the YouToons Have it Covered<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-58VD3z7ZiQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 4\/12 Costs and Comparisons<\/strong> &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Disease Paper is due at classtime<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; follow AT LEAST ONE link from each section below to prepare for our discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/subject\/health-care-reform\">New York Times &#8211; Topic \/ Health Care Reform<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/\">Kaiser Family Foundation &#8211; Health Care Reform<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/topics\/health-care\/\">Pew Research &#8211; Topics: Health Care<\/a><br \/>\nWikipedia (PROCEED WITH CAUTION): <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\">ACA<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017\">AHCA<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Healthcare_reform_in_the_United_States\">Healthcare Reform in the US<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comparative Perspectives<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/17\/health\/health-care-global-uk-national-health-system-eprise\/\">How Health Care Works Around the World<\/a> (CNN, 17 Mar 2017)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2015\/oct\/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective\">US Health Care from a Global Perspective<\/a> (CommonwealthFund, 2015)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mha.gwu.edu\/blog\/us-health-care-vs-the-world-2016\/\">US Health Care v. The World<\/a> (George Washington University School of Public Health, 8 Feb 2017)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Costs<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/29\/magazine\/those-indecipherable-medical-bills-theyre-one-reason-health-care-costs-so-much.html\">Those Indecipherable Medical Bills<\/a> (New York Times, March 29, 2017)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/new-peak-us-health-care-spending-10345-per-person\/\">$10,345 Per Person: US Health Care Spending Reaches New Peak<\/a> (PBS, July 2016 &#8211; and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/35\/8\/1522\">Health Affairs report<\/a> they&#8217;re referring to)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-costs\/\">Topic: Health Costs<\/a> (Kaiser Family Foundation)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/12\/27\/the-u-s-spends-more-on-health-care-than-any-other-country-heres-what-were-buying\/?utm_term=.5e1b550f18c3\">The US Spends More on Health Care Than Any Other Country. Here&#8217;s What We&#8217;re Buying<\/a> (Washington Post, 27 Dec 2016)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/health-expenditures.htm\">US Health Care Expenditures using 2015 Data<\/a> (CDC FastStats, January 2017)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/391\/more-is-less\">&#8220;More Is Less&#8221;<\/a> Podcast \/ Transcript (This American Life, 9 Oct 2009)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comparing ACA (&#8220;ObamaCare&#8221;) to AHCA (2017 Republican Health Care Plan) <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/wp\/2014\/03\/26\/historians-take-note-what-america-looked-like-before-obamacare\/?utm_term=.409d0b19d31c>Here&#8217;s What America Looked Like Before ObamaCare<\/a> (Washington Post, 26 Mar 2014)<a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/interactive\/proposals-to-replace-the-affordable-care-act\/\">Compare Proposals to Replace the Affordable Care Act<\/a> (Kaiser Family Foundation)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/03\/where-both-the-aca-and-ahca-fall-short-and-what-the-health-insurance-market-really-needs\">Where Both the ACA and ACHA Fall Short<\/a> (Harvard Business Review, 21 Mar 2017)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/la-na-pol-obamacare-repeal\/\">A Side-By-Side Comparison of Obamacare and the GOP&#8217;s Replacement Plan<\/a> (LA Times, 8\/21 Mar 2017)<br \/>\nWikipedia (PROCEED WITH CAUTION): <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2017_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act_replacement_proposals\">2017 Replacement Proposals<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Efforts_to_repeal_the_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\">Pre-2017 Replacement Proposals &amp; Efforts to Repeal <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Political Perspectives<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republican-health-care-vote-everything-you-need-know-n737336\">Republican Health Care Vote: Everything You Need to Know<\/a> (NBCNews, 23 Mar 2017)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2016\/12\/economist-explains-1\">Why Republicans Hate ObamaCare<\/a> (The Economist, Dec 2016)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gop.com\/the-case-against-obamacare\/\">The Case Against ObamaCare<\/a> (GOP.com, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gop.com\/platform\/renewing-american-values\/\">2016 Republican Party Platform<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=101961\">2012 Republican Party Platform<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/index.php?pid=117717\">2016 Democratic Party Platform<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/10\/20\/house-freedom-caucus-what-is-it-and-whos-in-it\/\">Who\/What is the House Freedom Caucus?<\/a> (PewResearch.org, 20 October 2015)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/advocacyblog.acponline.org\/?m=1\">American College of Physicians<\/a> (Opposed to AHCA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-spr17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}