BARACK OBAMA'S SOUTH CAROLINA SPEECH Introduction In this paper, I shall analyze US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's South Carolina victory speech from a particular pragmatic perspective. In particular, I shall explore the idea that this speech is constituted by many voices (in other words, it displays polyphony, to use an idea due to Bakhtin 1981, 1986) and that the audience is part of this speech event, adding and contributing to its text in a collaborative way (in particular, in constructing
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made it impossible to help our economy, with families and businesses all struggling to make it. Reforming healthcare means keeping the insurance each American has (if they are happy with it), seeing the doctor that they want, increasing the quality of care while decreasing costs and eliminating waste, helping small businesses stay competitive and in business, and reforming healthcare so Americans will never face losing your coverage. According to SEIU (2012), the average family of four is paying $29
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| Health care system in the U.S. and changes by Obama | | Semir Golic30.11.2010 | Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. The History of health care in the USA 4 3. The Health Care System 5 4.1 How health insurance works 4.2 Different insurance programs 4.3 Problems 3.3.1 Financial & bureaucratic problems 3.3.2 Conflict with the American Dream 4. Changes of Obama 9 5.4 Reform of the system
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assistance when needed. How did Bush expand it and what was the effect on the federal - state relationship? George Bush expanded Medicare throughout his terms in office with various increases in spending and acts with his Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 being of great significance. It was set to cost $400 billion in its first 10 years, a huge expansion of federal spending and of a federal programme introduced by Democratic president Johnson in 1965 which
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Introduction There are many pros and cons that have to do with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Healthcare Reform (HR). There are many reason why the ACA and HR effects the pocketbooks of hard working Americans. Many people think that all businesses large and small have to provide health insurances for all employees, which is not a hundred percent accurate. Large business are considered to have over hundred employees and small business are to have under a hundred employees. How the reforms
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Currently, within Obama’s administration, the Republican Party holds the minority in the House and Senate, enabling them to act as an inhibitor to his proposed policies. For example, the calamity around the Affordable Care Act has demonstrated that a divided government can initiate gridlocks. In which the partisan differences between the president and the members of Congress
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Managed Care Lucille Purry Economics of Healthcare Faculty Sever South University 10 December 2013 Abstract Managed care, a deliver system for health care intended to reduce the cost of that care. Examples of managed care organizations are HMO, IPA, PPO, POS and PFFS. MCO’s operate through contractual agreements that are set to meet certain standards due to the fact that they don’t have direct control. Managed care provider and hospital reimbursement ranges from fee for service and capitation
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America: A Nation Divided. In George Washington’s Farewell Speech on September 19, 1796, he warned against political parties as follows: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually
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present time, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the foremost law surrounding health care for most people in America. The ACA is a federal statute that was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010 as part of President Obama’s health care reform legislation and is fully titled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The law established health care exchanges and mandated that insurance plans cover essential health benefits of emergency room trips, outpatient and inpatient care, mental health and
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Topic: Is the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare” an appropriate policy to promote personal and social responsibility? Obamacare is for those small organizations that pay for their insurance. Obamacare, which is also well known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a law passed which guarantees that all Americans can have health insurance which is affordable. This is executed by providing Americans tax credit, or discounts, on health insurance plans provided
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