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SUSIE & TYLER’S CURRENT EVENTS October 29, 2013 THE BASICS Topic The Affordable Care Act Articles • “Top health exchan...

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SUSIE & TYLER’S CURRENT EVENTS October 29, 2013 THE BASICS Topic The Affordable Care Act

Articles •

“Top health exchange official apologizes for Obamacare webstie woes”



“Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance”



“Promised Fix for Health Site Could Squeeze some Users”



“Tracking the Progress of the Health Exchanges”



“HealthCare.gov crashes amid changes”



“5 Key questions Await Developers of healthcare.gov”



“Enormous benefits from Affordable Care Act” – Opinion (in favor)



“How to Fix the Glitches” – Opinion (neutral)



“David Gregory: Embarrassing ‘Caricature of Incompetence’ on Obamacare” -Opinion (against)

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/hill-panel-grills-top-obama-insurance-site-executive-8C11487718 http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/29/21222195-obama-administration-knew-millionscould-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/us/politics/general-contractor-named-to-fix-health-web-site.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/04/us/opening-week-of-health-exchanges.html http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/330835-heathcaregov-homepagesees-changeshttp://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/24/21104685-5-key-questions-await-developers-ofhealthcaregov?lite http://trib.com/opinion/letters/enormous-benefits-from-affordable-care-act/article_de462c79-5cc8-5a95b7f7-4a57acef291f.html?comment_form=true http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/opinion/emanuel-how-to-fix-the-glitches.html

http://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/david-gregory-embarrassing-caricature-of-incompetence-onobamacare/

Questions to Consider • • • • •

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What is the Affordable Care Act? What is Obamacare? What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? What does “patient protection” mean? What does “affordable” mean? How does a citizen analyze the various myths and facts about the ACA? How is “Obamacare” connected to the recent government shutdown/debt crisis? To the presidential ambitions of potential candidates in 2016? To the policies of political parties? To agendas of interest groups/lobbyists? How is the success or failure of the ACA connected to a farm bill, immigration reform and financial reform? How might it be central to the Obama legacy? How is the Affordable Care Act flawed? How serious are the glitches in the ACA website? Is healthcare.gov the main issue or is the ACA unacceptable to some groups? Why is the response to the ACA so emotional? Is it useful to assign blame to some one or some government agency? Why or why not? Why are some health insurers cancelling policies and raising rates for coverage of previously insured Americans? How are the new ACA patient protections in the law causing some insurers to raise rates? What are those protections? Why is creating a law so complicated? What are the consequences of law-making unpredictable? How should be laws be written in order to be fair, understandable, possible to obey, and legal? Why do the enrollment figures of the ACA matter? What are the deadlines for sign up? What are the penalties for failure to sign up? Why are the current enrollment numbers so unclear?

Questions to Consider continued… • Is health care a constitutional right? Do other countries guarantee health care for their citizens? What are the results? What additional Constitutional challenges does the ACA face? • How might the ACA be modified? Which branch of our government has the responsibility to make changes in existing law? • Are there examples of successful health insurance exchanges? What do these successful exchanges suggest about implementing the ACA?

THE EXTRAS Pre-teaching, Extensions & Further Reading •

“Obamacare Myths”



“Fact Checking ‘Pernicious’ Obamacare Claims” http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/factchecking-



“Affordable Care Act Myths and Facts”



“Understanding Obamacare: A guide about the Affordable Care Act by Politico”



“Timeline of the health care law”



“The Affordable Care Act: A Brief Summary”

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http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/obamacare-

myths/ pernicious-obamacare-claims/ http://leaguelafayette.org/files/aca_mythsfacts120820.pdf http://www.politico.com/obamacare-guide/ http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/28/politics/supreme-court-health-timeline http://www.ncsl.org/portals/1/documents/health/hraca.pdf “Obamacare Pros and Cons” http://useconomy.about.com/od/healthcarereform/a/Obamacare-ProsAnd-Cons.htm

Lesson Plans/Activities o “Health Care Reform Supreme Court Interactive – Classroom Deliberations” http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/28/politics/supreme-court-health-timeline

What’s the connection? Constitution • “The Affordable Care Act and a tale of two Constitutions” http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/the-affordable-care-act-and-a-tale-of-two-constitutions/ •

“A look at Obamacare’s top constitutional challenges” http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/a-look-at-obamacares-top-constitutional-challenges/



“A constitutional right to health care”



http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/a-constitutional-right-to-health-247449.aspx “The Legislative Branch” http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/legislative-branch

Students • “The YouToons Get Ready for Obamacare: Health Insurance Changes Coming Your Way Under the Affordable Care Act” http://kff.org/health-reform/video/youtoonsobamacare-video/



“Obamacare Explained” http://useconomy.about.com/od/healthcarereform/a/ObamacareExplained.htm

Oregon • “Greg Walden and supporters of Obamacare spar over failures of health exchange website” http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2013/10/greg_walden_and_supporters_of.html • “Your Questions about Cover Oregon answered” http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131016/news/310160067/your-questions-about-coveroregon-answered?odyssey=obinsite

Oregon State Social Science Standards/CCSS 8.14 Explain rights and responsibilities of citizens. 8.17 Examine the development activities of political parties and interest groups and their affect on events, issues, and ideas. 8.26 Examine a controversial event, issue, or problem from more than one perspective. HS.28 Evaluate how government interacts at the local, state, tribal, national, and global levels. HS.33 Explain the role of government in various current events. HS.35 Examine the pluralistic realities of society (e.g., race, poverty, gender, and age), recognizing issues of equity, and evaluating need for change. HS.60 Analyze an event, issue problem, or phenomenon from varied or opposing perspectives or points of view. 6-8.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. 6-8.RH.8 Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text. 9-10.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. 11-12.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.

NEW! We the People Lesson Connections Middle School, Level 2 • Unit 1, Lesson 5: How can we organize government to prevent the abuse of power? • Unit 4, Lesson 21: How does the US Supreme Court use the power of judicial review? High School, Level 3 • Unit 1, Lesson 2: What ideas about civic life informed the founding generation? • Unit 3, Lesson 15: How have amendments and judicial review changed the Constitution? • Unit 4, Lesson 22: How does Congress perform its function in the American Constitutional System? • Unit 4, Lesson 26: How does American federalism work? • Unit 6, Lesson 37: What key challenges does the United States face in the future?