Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Speech Exercise: Healthcare Reform
Barack Obama Speech Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction
OBAMACARE Doing Less for Fewer and Costing More
Pros:
- Universal health care.
- Only country still without it.
The pros are emphasized by using logos and pathos. Logic is used when showing statistics that the deficit will not greatly increase with the reform and coupled with the appeal to emotions to providing health care to all and help those who suffer and have so long gone without health insurance, see a brighter tomorrow.
Cons:
- Increases spending deficit.
- Creates a more socialized government.
The cons are emphasized through fear tactics. Pathos is also used to scare the public into thinking we are stepping closer to a world of communism.
Editorial
Trixcee
Comia
Professor
Steven Wexler
English
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13
March 2013
Editorial: Health Care Reform
The
Affordable Care Act is one of President Obama’s tactics to reforming health
care in America. The newly made
law involves providing more affordable health care to the public and lifting
previous restrictions in the fine print of the insurance policies. It also allows for the expansion of
preventative medicine as well as covering prior medical conditions that once deemed
one ineligible to receive coverage.
One of the newest additions to the act is breast cancer genetic
testing. The Affordable Care act
allows women to be covered by their insurance for the screening of the breast
cancer genes BRCA1
and BRCA2. Women who
posses this gene are at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian
cancer. Exams such as this were
not previously covered in the former health policies.
Those
against the new reform believe it to be a step towards socialization. Mandating the public to have health
insurance violates one’s freedom to elect not to have health coverage. It can be argued that the reform allows
for excessive government intervention.
It allows for government expansion into the personal lives of the
people. The genetic cancer
screenings and other preventative health care services are very expensive and
only further add to the nation’s spending deficient.
Prior
to the health care reform, the United States was one of the few countries left
without universal health care for its people. Assuring one’s health is essential for one’s quality of
life. Before the affordable care
act, the breast cancer genetic testing was not available to all. Now women have
access to it and significantly lower their chances of developing breast and
ovarian cancer. This is a step in
the right direction for public wellbeing.
Universal health care functions just as the laws enforcing seatbelt
usage in motor vehicles. It is
mandatory for you to wear your seatbelt in a car for your own safety. Millions of dollars more are wasted
upon diseases that could have easily been prevented such as lung cancer
developed by smokers. Under the
health care reform, preventative services, such as cessation programs will be
provided through health insurance. This essentially saves more money spending
on preventative care as opposed to treating the disease developed from lack of
preventative care.
In
regards to the Affordable Care Act, the benefits greatly supersede its
costs. It is an investment in
human kind. According to the
American Cancer Society, there are “about 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women.” With the health care reform, women now
stand a fighting chance to drastically lower the number of new cases of breast
cancer victims. Equal health coverage is something that has been lacking in
America. With this reform, we secure our necessity for optimal living
conditions. Very rarely does government intervention benefit society as a
whole, but the appropriate steps are being taken which does not interfere
significantly in private business but at the same time also greatly aids its
citizens.
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Why Women Under 40 Should Pay More
Attention to Their Breasts
Seattle, Washington – February 26, 2013
– A staggering discovery
in the rising diagnosis of advanced breast cancer in women under the age of 40
was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This
news awakens younger women to the idea that it is no longer a disease that
solely affects one much later in life.
From 1976 to
2009, there has been a consistently observed 2% increase in diagnosis of
metastatic breast cancer in women under 40.
For many years,
physicians have advised self-breast exams until the age of 40 as a sufficient
substitute for the more expensive, more evasive mammogram. With this unearthing
however, it may be time to reconsider the target age population.
This discovery
is crucial to the study of breast cancer. Dr. Johnson’s finding poses a serious
problem for younger women. What is most concerning about a diagnosis discovered
sooner than the age of 40, are more likely to have developed the more
aggressive form of the disease and deal with lower survival rates.
“In previous research, she found that a
woman younger than 40 had a 1 in 173 chance of developing breast cancer. For
this study, she wanted to look specifically at advanced breast cancer within
that same population” (Hagan 2013).
Along with the
increase of younger women developing metastatic cancer, Dr. Johnson and her
team were also able to calculate the average mean of new cases of young women
developing the disease: 34.3 years in women aged between 25 to 39.
“There is no solid explanation for what's
driving the increased incidence, but Johnson and her team suggest there's
likely more than one cause” (Hagan 2013). Possible risk factors that enhance
the likelihood of developing breast cancer are: age,
race, family genealogy, predisposed conditions, breast tissue density, menstrual
periods, and lifestyle choices.
There is hope
yet, however. Now that the issue has been raised, more prevention strategies
can be developed such as earlier screenings and mammograms. With this, an
earlier detection can mean the difference between life and death.
Dr. Rebecca Johnson is the lead author of the study and is also the
medical director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology program at Seattle
Children's Hospital.
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Author Profile
My name is
Trixceeanne Cuevas. I am a 21-year-old, first generation, Filipino-American. I attend
California State University, Northridge where I major in public health promotion
and pre-nursing. I am currently employed at the Victoria’s Secret franchise at
the Westfield Topanga mall as a bra specialist and I absolutely love my job.
It’s an entirely different work environment from the restaurant I waitressed
and cashiered at for 3 years. Up until recently, I had also been volunteering
at Roze Room Hospice as well as One Generation, a child daycare and a senior
citizen enrichment center.
Although I
have never met my father or his family, I grew up in a very large family on my
mother’s side. I am the eldest of twenty-four grandchildren. This greatly
contributes to who I am as a person because it entrusted me with the greatest
responsibility in the family. I watch over my younger siblings and cousins as
if they were my own children. I am not typically seen as one of this kids, but
as the youngest adult. Along with this, I am also the only child my mother and
biological father had together, so I do not have any biological siblings.
However, I do have a half brother whom I love with all my heart and see as my
full brother, and two other step-siblings. How this shapes me as a person is
driving my greatest desire in life to fall in love, get married once and once
only. This is so that my kids can grow up with and knowing their father, and
also have at least five children so that they can grow up in a big family just
as I did. I am without a doubt a hopeless romantic and constantly wish and hope
for that happily every after: the prince charming, the big castle, and a happy
family.
My career is
important to me as well, but not nearly as significant as having my dream
family someday. My immediate goals for the future are graduating from CSUN with
honors and obtaining my bachelor’s of science degree in public health promotion.
My future and ultimate career goal is to someday change the world. That is why
after I graduate, I hope to join the Peace Corps and do some good for mankind.
I also hope to obtain my registered nursing license because I am fascinated
with science, the medical field, and helping people. I am a natural caretaker
and I believe nursing, along with public health promotion, to be the way to
fulfilling all of my desires.
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