Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.: Affordable Care Act

Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.: Affordable Care Act

Create two separate proposals, one that addresses liberal viewpoints and one that addresses conservative viewpoints.

Convince each group that continued funding is essential to the well-being of its recipients.

Address the following in each proposal:
The party platform principles
How the program advances the party agenda
Program data related to target population outcomes

*Convince each group that continued
funding is essential to the well-being of
it recipients
Creates two separate proposals,
one addressing liberal viewpoints
and one addressing conservative
viewpoints
30
Writes a compelling argument 40
Addresses party platform
principles
40
Explains how the program
advances each party’s agenda
40
Includes program data related to
target population outcomes
30

Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.:
The origins of this “partisanization” of health reform stem largely from a general political polarization and, with it, broader efforts to oppose current Administration policies. They provided the basis for a Republican victory in securing a majority in the House of Representatives in 2010. They fueled continuing calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform law enacted in 2010 and to block its implementation, or at least the implementation of major parts of it. In the 2012 elections, opposition to “the health reform law” was again a rallying cry for Republican candidates at every level.
Health reform has become a partisan and politically polarized issue largely by default. It is disturbing to think that supporting expansion of health care coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans is viewed as solely a “Democratic” position. At the same time, it is difficult not to let this polarization have an impact on how the issues are framed. For example, when I discussed a proposal to reduce federal funding for Medicaid and to turn it into a block-grant program, I characterized it as being proposed by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. That was intended as a statement of fact, not of anti-Republican animus. But I can see how, in the current political environment, it could be perceived otherwise.

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