Affordable Health Care Act vs. Obamacare

In our society, language and how we portray as well as interpret things makes a key role in our everyday activities. Just in the names alone, the affordable health care act, or Obamacare, has a huge impact on the way people interpret its meaning and the way the view it. Between ABC news, and the New York Times, widely different language is used to express their different opinions on what is working in the health care act and what myths their are regarding the system. Within the NY Times article, the author writes that the Affordable Health Care act has successful helped reduce the number of Americans without health insurance, but that is the rawest form of the answer. Looking further into it, ABC talks in more detail about how Obamacare has greatly reduced the number of people without health insurance in a different approach, by busting the myth that the plan hasn't been working. ABC talks about how more and more states have been given working access to the site, and that more and more have been receiving insurance plans, shown within California, which received 95,000 applicants for the insurance plan. As shown in the picture, people without insurance have begun to drop from the health care plan, no matter how each news system illustrates it.

 

 

As shown, as of 2014, the uninsured have begun to drop, no matter the language used to say so. The main difference in language between each; however,  is how they talk about the future for the health care plan. The NY Times says the plan promises "big change" and is going to "eliminate the problem" of the uninsured. However, the ABC news video embedded within the article talks about how the plan is going to cost huge amounts to support the site, as well as continually support the insurance plans of others. The correspondent mentions that, " $4,000,000 alone was used on a site that remained non functional for awhile, making it unable for people to follow up after signing up for the plan. Visible between their similarities in language, you an see that the health care plan offers a drop in the uninsured, but without fixing finances, the future of the plan is going to deteriorate in the eyes of one, but in the other, it is going to succeed in the future, whilst eliminating the unemployed, without referencing the cost of the plan.

 

Here's the link for the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html?_r=0#/affordability

And here's a link for the ABC article and video: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamacare-truth-myths/story?id=20650455