American Rhetoric: Passage Of Health Care Reform

|Name |Justice Gray |
|MLA Citation |Obama, Barack. "American Rhetoric: Barack Obama -- Speech to the Nation on Passage of New Health Care Reform Bill ." American Rhetoric: |
| |The Power of Oratory in the United States. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. |
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|Genre |Non-fiction, Speech |
|Question type |Defend, Refute, Qualify (DRQ) |
|Question: “I want to thank every member of Congress who stood up tonight with courage and conviction to make health care reform a reality.
And I know this |
|wasn’t an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote.”
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|In the passage above President Obama states that the vote in favor of the health care reform bill was the right vote. Write an insightful, well-organized |
|essay that defends, refutes, or qualifies Obama’s claim. Use facts and evidence to better illustrate your claim. |
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|On March 23, 2010 the Affordable Care Act better known as the Health Care Reform bill became a law.
Millions more people will gain health insurance, |
|coverage will be more affordable, and people will have access to the health services they need. The health care reform has been an ongoing debate for |
|years. Finally President Obama is the man to get the bill passed to help Americans.
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|Since March 2010, the health care law has already helped Americans. It has helped one million additional young adults receive health coverage that they |
|could not afford before. Obama states in his speech “Today’s vote answers the dreams of so many who have fought for this reform.” This exert from the |
|passage mean that Americans have been longing for a reform in health care and it is a great thing that they are receiving it. In eighteen short months, |
|countless other Americans, including seniors, women, and children have already begun to benefit from the Affordable Care Act. |
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|The Affordable Act created a major expansion of Medicaid coverage. This is all federally funded for millions of low income working families. Republicans in|
|the White House think differently. They feel as if we are taking from the poor and giving to the rich. In response that is what our country is made of. |
|Before we can make an impact on other countries we as a whole have to fix our people and help them. Now poverty stricken families who were falling through |
|the cracks will not have to worry about being about to afford health care coverage. Small businesses can afford to offer their employees (26 million) |
|health care coverage. It limits out-of-pocket spending, giving Americans real healthy security and a peace of mind. |
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|The reform also helps the middle-class, working families to be able to afford the coverage they need to keep their families healthy. Millions of American |
|parents walk into hospitals every day with their sick children and get turned away, because they have little to no insurance coverage. This bill changed |
|that in a major way. It improved Medicare to help seniors and people with illnesses or disabilities. It enabled them to afford their drugs and other |
|treatments. Medicaid program does not provide coverage for all low-income people like it was supposed to, but in the reform it clearly changes all of that |
|and now people have the proper coverage they need. |
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|Although there are Americans who disagree with the bill being passed, it works to better our country as a whole. The bill helps people gain insurance, |
|makes coverage affordable, and provides people with the coverage one needs. Whether you are the high-income workers, who are complaining about how the |
|reform affects you, stop to think about a child who has been hurt by a natural disaster and their parents bring them in to a hospital and the hospital has |
|to barely treat them because they have no insurance. If that was a high-income American, he or she would turn it their government and country for help. |
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