Saturday, November 30, 2013

What are examples of recent political actions in regards to the issue of health care?

There have been any number of political actions on the
subject of health care in recent years.  Here, I will define "political actions" as
those that are meant to try to affect people's opinions on health care or that are meant
to transmit the people's opinions to their leaders.


One of
the major political actions on health care in recent years is the Republican attempt to,
as seen in href="http://www.repealhealthcareact.org/welcome-to-repealhealthcareact-org/">this
link, mobilize public opinion against President Obama's health care law and to
use the opposition as a means of promoting Republican electoral prospects.  These
attempts have generally involved trying to convince voters that the Obama plan is
anti-American and dangerous to the US economy.


Similarly,
we can currently see Democratic political actions on health care, particularly on the
issue of Medicare.  Here, we see Democrats trying to convince voters that Republicans
would destroy the Medicare program.  They hope, like the Republicans, to use these
political actions to mobilize public opinion and to use that opinion to improve their
ability to win elections.

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