Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Day 11: ObamaCare

Edgar Allan Poe


“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan PoeMarginalia

BEFORE you go to TypingWeb
 complete this 
then... 
Learning Target(s):  
  • I can UNDERSTAND the new Affordable Healthcare Act (ObamaCare) by reviewing the healthcare.gov website SO THAT I can TRANSFER that information to my family and friends who may need it.
  • I will MASTER one of the skills introduced in lessons 1-10 that I have not mastered before by practicing.
Homework: 
  • NONE
Agenda: 
  • "I am AWARE of your need to MOVE" Quiz & Typing Web [25]
  • Introduction to HealthCare.Gov [40]
      • MINI LECTURE [20] 
        • Brief History of Healthcare in the US (adapted from pbs.org)
          • 1900's Railroads and Kaiser STEEL - Company Doctors
          • 1910's Labors efforts thwarted, in part, by WWI
          • 1920's General Motors - Postpaid Group Plan
          • 1930's Depression reprioritizes work over health while Blue Cross offers first individual health insurance plans
          • 1940's PREpaid GROUP Healthcare
          • 1950's Many advances in medicine but not in how to afford them.  Korean War distracts country
          • 1960's Cost of care doubles in past decade, jobless, especially elderly, no longer able to afford care.  Medicare & Medicaid signed in to law
          • 1970's PrePaid health plans now officially called HMOs and get official government recognition
          • 1980's corporation move to consolidate healthcare system for a profit; payment by diagnoses rather than treatment becomes the norm; doctor's payments are commonly capped by corporate health conglomerates
          • 1990's Healthcare costs rise at double the rate of other goods and services; HMO's increase coverage for the employed and other paying customers; 44 MILLION americans are without health coverage at the end of the 1990's
          • 2000's Healthcare costs continue to rise; company paid plans (including for RETIREES) cover less services and charge employees more.
          • 2010's National Healthcare proposed again and passes, leading to today, where 3 weeks of enrollment remain before the first OCA policies go in to effect.  Not really NATIONAL HEALTHCARE (single payer) but, rather, MANDATORY HEALTHCARE (multi-payer but NO OPT OUT which should lower the rates for MOST now, and for ALL over their lifetime.)
        • Controversies around "ObamaCare"
          • Communism
          • States Rights
          • Destruction of our Health System
          • Racism
          • "voting against one's own self interest"
        • Controversies around HealthCare.Gov
          • The technical side of the issue or, "why can Amazon do it so much better?"
      • GUIDED EXPLORATION [20]
  • Individual Photoshop Practice Time [35]
    • REMEMBER your second learning target: I will MASTER at LEAST one of the skills introduced in lessons 1-10, that I have not mastered before, by practicing the skill.
    • Practice - do something nice, don't just scribble...
      • cloning
      • covering
      • healing
      • selecting
      • moving
    • Start Bringing In Your Own Photos to Work On!

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