Commentary On The Article 'Obamacare'

Nick-O-Las
Reading this article, I was at first confused as to what the author was complaining about. As I kept reading I began to understand that the author was angry with the people who opposed the governments healthcare plan or as he called it, “Obamacare”. The author kept on giving examples of opponents who would just twist the information about the healthcare reform to make it seem like it was a bad thing and one that would scare Americans from wanting the government to provide healthcare. The author said opponents would keep using scare tactics and misinformation to mislead the public. One point that I thought was his strongest about how the people against Obamacare would manipulate the information was when gave the example of the British healthcare. He cited how opponents said Britain’s government chose who was worthy of treatment and who was not. But the opponents got the information wrong because the government doesn’t decide anything. It just stops people from paying for treatments and surgeries that have no proof of working. They simply don’t want people wasting money on unnecessary treatments so the money is saved for things worth getting. I thought this was a great point in that he showed how people who misinterpret information can make something that is working to the
I think, “then what the hell are they paying them for?” It makes no sense for someone to pay a company thousands of dollars every year for something that they can’t even use when they need to use it. It is, for lack of a better term, stupid. To me, that is like throwing your money away or putting it into a bank and then when you go make a withdrawal, they say that you cannot get it. It is and idiotic system and one that I am glad I do not have to deal with back in my