What does this mean for Education?
by Alex Hutchins
What is Obamacare?
H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, is often referred to as the health care reform law, or Obamacare. The law is extremely long at 1990 pages, roughly 500 pages longer than Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Obamacare is the most comprehensive program the federal government has attempted to do since Social Security. Obamacare touches the life of every person in America in one way or another. It is important to know what the health care reform law says.
Obamacare has ten large titles to it. Each title represents a comprehensive set of directives to be overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sometimes other federal departments are involved, such as the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service. It also connects to state health departments, non-profit organizations, hospitals, medical schools, businesses, and even public schools.
H.R. 3590 Title I: Providing Quality Health Care for Every American
H.R. 3590 Title II: Improving Medicaid, CHIP, and Long Term Care
H. R. 3590 Title III: Positive Outcomes for Medicare, Rural Health, and Medicare Part D
H.R. 2590 Title IV: Disease Prevention and Improving Health
H.R. 3590 Title V: Financial Aid for Medical and Nursing School and Health Centers
H.R. 3590 Title VI: Integrity Between Doctors and Big Pharma
H.R. 3590 Title VII: Biologicals and Big Pharma Expansion Through 340B
H.R. 3590 Title VIII: The CLASS Act
H.R. 3590 Title IX: How We Will Pay For Obamacare
H.R. 3590 Title X: Making Provisions to Strengthen the Health Care Reform Law
How is Higher Education Impacted?
Obamacare should be studied, discussed, analyzed, and understood in the following areas of College/University education:
Healthcare classes
Business Law classes
Rhetoric classes
Communication classes
Ethics classes
Accounting classes
Marketing classes
Med School classes
Medical Research classes
Disease Prevention Classes
Nursing classes
Finance classes
Sociology classes
Psychology classes
Journalism classes
Philosophy classes
Religion classes
Financial Planning classes
Long Term Care classes
City Planning classes
Logistics classes
Operations Management classes
Human Resource Management classes
Hospital Administration classes
Biology classes
Pharmacy classes
Debate classes
Economics classes
Entrepreneurship classes
Management classes
Political Science classes
And, I am sure that there are areas overlooked.
What does this mean for Higher Education? It means we must revise our lesson plans for the 2012/2013 school year and beyond. It means that textbooks need to be revised. It means that we as educators must take a neutral view here, presenting the information as clearly and concisely as we can and let our students formulate their own opinions. But, how many of us will take a neutral view?
In fact, I suspect that we will be reading all sorts of negative articles from the media, blogs, and social networking sites over the next few weeks. I also suspect that our broadcast media will splatter the airwaves with all sorts of negative comments. I suspect the Supreme Court decision will be over-analyzed by talk radio; and, I suspect it will be of ultimate interest during the upcoming Presidential Election – all of which can be used to stir the minds of students in our classrooms.
What a judge wants you to know about Obamacare.
What a doctor wants you to know about Obamacare.
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about Obamacare.
But, what this author wants you to know is not my bias or the bias of others, but for you to become a better informed citizen by reading and being exposed to all sides of the story so that you, and you alone, can decide for yourself what is right for this country. And, even if you can do nothing about your opinion because the other side has too many numbers, at least you will know in your own heart that what you believe has been put there by what you think.
This is education and
what education should
always be about.
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