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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
(5,105 posts)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.
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
(26,109 posts)Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)how does the individual mandate effect them?
Lars39
(26,109 posts)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
(28 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)to do it after all.
Gov101
(28 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Gov101
(28 posts)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
(28 posts)If you dislike it feel free to tell us why.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)Gov101
(28 posts)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
(62,531 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)the pertinent elements of the ACA, instead of going with the easy-peasy feel-good "Group Work" approach?
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)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
(157 posts)On politically divided message boards?
Yeah, sounds like a good use if time to me
Gov101
(28 posts)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
(11,362 posts)... 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
(28 posts)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
(25,960 posts)This will subsidize the mandatory, for-profit insurance of older workers, all while guaranteeing the insurers a profit margin set in the law.
Gov101
(28 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)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