HS Seniors Ask: How will the healthcare law impact us?

[Gov101]

Question: How will the new healthcare law impact people our age who are entering adulthood?


This question was created by a group of about 60 high school seniors in Iowa as part of a couple government classes. Feel free to discuss the question as you normally would, but to respond to the students just quote the OP, keep it short and rated G, start with a sentence that sums up your opinion followed briefly by your explanation, and finally if you don't mind, say a bit about how you identify yourself politically.

[xfundy]

1. Say what?

How about introducing yourself first, keep it short and speak without worrying whether you may use any "blue" language, and tell us how you identify yourself politically.

You seem to feel you're "entitled," and speak as though we were children. We're not.

[Gov101]

2. Hi

Our class is just comparing the responses between a board full of democrats and a board full of republicans. It will be interesting to see which is the most inept in this situation.

[Lars39]

3. Young adults can stay on their parents' insurance until they are 26 years old.

[Supersedeas]

15. and for those without insurance provided by their parents?

how does the individual mandate effect them?

[Lars39]

16. I'm not sure, would depend on health exchanges for state perhaps.

I do know that one of my children is on my policy for at least a few more years, and that due to a per-existing condition he won't be turned down when he looks for his own health insurance.

[Gov101]

18. Concise and students found relevant, though i'll need to look into uninsured 18-26 year olds. nt

[Lars39]

21. A lot of Republican governors are refusing to set up exchanges, but some have reversed and decided

to do it after all.

[Gov101]

22. If states don't do it, doesn't the federal government set up one up in the state for them? nt

[Lars39]

23. Here ya go:

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-does-the-affordable-care-act-affect-me/

[Gov101]

4. Is DU's silence on this question revealing?

Am I correct in assuming that this is just not an attractive question to discuss on a liberal board?

There are a dozen replies on the republican side so far decrying the ACA and foretelling doom and decline--do those folks simply have an easier case to make?

[Gov101]

5. Although I also don't mean to assume that liberals/democrats would agree with the ACA...

If you dislike it feel free to tell us why.

[Javaman]

6. So, tell us why you are really here, okay? nt

[Gov101]

7. Today in class:

We'll have 10 minutes of reading and discussing what the Republican forum thinks about the Affordable Care Act followed by 2 minutes of class speculation on why the Democrats didnt want to talk about it.

[Javaman]

20. What makes you believe the Democrats didn't want to talk about it? nt

[WinkyDink]

9. Maybe we don't like doing homework anymore? Especially others'? Maybe your teacher could show you

the pertinent elements of the ACA, instead of going with the easy-peasy feel-good "Group Work" approach?

[Brickbat]

8. What's the "Republican board" you're asking on?

I'm hoping this is actually a lesson on being skeptical about information one finds on message boards, or a lesson in setting up flawed surveys.

[prefunk]

10. So as a teacher, you are going to use class time to discuss the opinions of anonymous posters

On politically divided message boards?

Yeah, sounds like a good use if time to me

[Gov101]

11. It's one thing to talk and about political ideologies and the role of the internet...

But developing questions is itself a worthy experience, and posing them to differing opinionated groups is quite revealing. So yes, its a great use of 10-20 min once in a while.

[surrealAmerican]

12. Why not research the law in a non-biased manner ...

... and encourage your students to form their own opinions, instead of borrowing the opinions of others?

Is the point of this exercise to understand the law, or to show how many people are misinformed about it?

[Gov101]

14. The class is not actually studying the Affordable Care Act

They are studying political ideologies atm. This is just the first of 3 questions they came up with. But what I'll likely do is put information resources that they can refer to if they have factual questions about the actual law.

[Romulox]

13. The idea is to force these kids to buy for-profit insurance at artificially high rates.

This will subsidize the mandatory, for-profit insurance of older workers, all while guaranteeing the insurers a profit margin set in the law.

[Gov101]

17. Thanks, I was hoping someone might sum up this perspective. nt

[Tikki]

19. Pre-existing conditions.

Aren't the students your dealing with the fortunate ones...none will acquire a condition early on in their life that will
exclude them from health care in their near future.

Please have the repub students during the panel discussion list the Churches in your community that will pay the bills for the unfortunate ones.


Tikki