Obamacare Failure
Obamacare: Failing or Fake News
For years, the Grand Old Party (GOP), also known as the Republican Party, indicated the party would work nonstop to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. The Act was created to increase the quality, availability, and affordability of private and public health insurance for more than 44 million of uninsured Americans. Additionally, the purpose was to slow growth in healthcare spending in the United States. While America benefitted from insurance coverage where low incomes prevented coverage, the GOP still insisted the ACA was falling apart and about to implode. Media coverage on the details varies by outlet, causing a divided idea of truth and lies that …show more content…
Many internal and external factors determine which media outlet takes a stance on individual news stories. However, the interpretations between media and society creates situations where reality becomes a question of need and want, depending on motive (Southwell & Thorson, 2015).
Media coverage has recently been controlled by the Trump administration, by offering “limited seating” in the briefing rooms, allowing the White House to deliver specific messages to America by only those who have access to the West Wing. Therefore, many social media users who are loyal to those sources, continue delivering mixed or false messages via Facebook, Twitter, and personal blogs (Croteau & Hoynes, 2014). By doing so, the messages have become so convoluted that it becomes difficult to determine what has become widely called “fake news”. For example, Dropp and Nyhan (2017) reported for The New York Times that a poll by the Morning Consult indicated that 35 percent of respondents ages 18 to 29 did not know the ACA and Obamacare were the same. Whether confused, uneducated on the topics, or in denial, people are fed a constructed reality by media when possible, thus perpetuating “fake …show more content…
Additionally, the assertion is that people who live in a denial-based construct, do so out of fear. As the Republicans pushed for a Donald Trump presidency, the campaign trail that led to the White House was largely based on fear (Ball, 2016). The administration has continually created a constant “sense of disorder” among the American people, thus the utilization of the media to construct a false reality amongst the GOP supporters, surrounding the healthcare debate, became a very divided topic (Ball, 2016). The installation of fear further divided the opponents and proponents, both governmentally and societal. While there is media pluralism, it is hard to decipher which media outlet is telling the truth. The manipulation of the reported news continues to eliminate societal cohesion and increasing
For years, the Grand Old Party (GOP), also known as the Republican Party, indicated the party would work nonstop to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. The Act was created to increase the quality, availability, and affordability of private and public health insurance for more than 44 million of uninsured Americans. Additionally, the purpose was to slow growth in healthcare spending in the United States. While America benefitted from insurance coverage where low incomes prevented coverage, the GOP still insisted the ACA was falling apart and about to implode. Media coverage on the details varies by outlet, causing a divided idea of truth and lies that …show more content…
Many internal and external factors determine which media outlet takes a stance on individual news stories. However, the interpretations between media and society creates situations where reality becomes a question of need and want, depending on motive (Southwell & Thorson, 2015).
Media coverage has recently been controlled by the Trump administration, by offering “limited seating” in the briefing rooms, allowing the White House to deliver specific messages to America by only those who have access to the West Wing. Therefore, many social media users who are loyal to those sources, continue delivering mixed or false messages via Facebook, Twitter, and personal blogs (Croteau & Hoynes, 2014). By doing so, the messages have become so convoluted that it becomes difficult to determine what has become widely called “fake news”. For example, Dropp and Nyhan (2017) reported for The New York Times that a poll by the Morning Consult indicated that 35 percent of respondents ages 18 to 29 did not know the ACA and Obamacare were the same. Whether confused, uneducated on the topics, or in denial, people are fed a constructed reality by media when possible, thus perpetuating “fake …show more content…
Additionally, the assertion is that people who live in a denial-based construct, do so out of fear. As the Republicans pushed for a Donald Trump presidency, the campaign trail that led to the White House was largely based on fear (Ball, 2016). The administration has continually created a constant “sense of disorder” among the American people, thus the utilization of the media to construct a false reality amongst the GOP supporters, surrounding the healthcare debate, became a very divided topic (Ball, 2016). The installation of fear further divided the opponents and proponents, both governmentally and societal. While there is media pluralism, it is hard to decipher which media outlet is telling the truth. The manipulation of the reported news continues to eliminate societal cohesion and increasing