Thursday, June 28, 2012

Supreme Court weighs in on the Affordable Care Act

Today, the US Supreme Court upheld the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as "Obamacare".
There's plenty of information out there for you to digest. As I write this, it's consuming every second of CNN and C-Span.

So, as a practice to what I'll ask you to do at various times during the year, I'm asking you to post a response to this blog entry with your thoughts. Normally, these will be graded, but this time it will not be. But before you do anything, some historical perspective. Visit this link first. Then do your own research.

What do you think about the varied historical attempts to provide people with health care? Limit your response to a paragraph...and let's not get personal. This is history class, after all, not a chance to deride others.

~Gus