Questions Regarding Gov't ShutDowwwwwn

1. What is the debate around the government shutdown?
            a.) Why does the government have to be selfish and shutdown for them to compromise?
            b.) Who are the people who are actually going to suffer from this shut down?

2. Why the Republicans making this about Obama Care?
            a.) Why would the Republicans want to make their followers suffer, and not approve of this?

3. What is the Obama Care anyways?!
             a.) What are the bad things about ACA?

4. What is the situation around health care in the U.S?
              a.) Where does the money you don't end up spending from health insurance?

5. What happens or will happen when the government shuts down?
               a.) If federal businesses shut down, will they get paid what they lost?
               b.) How will the real victims suffer when the gov't shuts down?

6. What is considered discretionary spending?
                a.) How does the gov't pick and chose, how much money goes to who?

Personal Reflection

This talk and lecture about government, poverty, and money all make me feel extremely vulnerable. Its overwhelming, it makes me insecure and unsure of who people really are, if it wasn't for the money. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one but I don't feel so good about myself when we discuss this topic. Sometimes it gets me upset from everything I'm learning, I feel this anxiety inside me and want to walk out the classroom. The feeling of not being able to do anything about this corrupt government is very stressing and nerve wrecking, especially for some in the lower class. When I'm sitting in class, I'm thinking, "Any minute now, when the teacher ends his sentence, he's going to tell us the secret to survive against this government confinement we live in". But it never comes, so my hopes are crushed. Probably we have to find out on our own, even if some get it or don't. It makes me despise the upper class more when I find out how immoral they could be. Sometimes i feel like talking about all this is just to learn more about whats going on in the world, but I want to take action! This kind of corruption has been going on for decades and people clearly cant do anything about it. We're still going to be under federal law, we're still going to pay taxes, have low paying jobs and unemployment, there is still going to be extreme poverty and slaves and we're just still going to get fucked over at the end of the day either way! Unless you're in upper class, but the upper class wont even have this on their list of worries. It makes me scared and anxious of how the future is going to be, because now even the middle class could become the new poverty in just a blink of an eye. Like it just confuses me to the point of wanting to quit everything I'm doing. Obviously working for the government is never going to end. Or sometimes I think of moving to other countries where life could be better, where its more equal and less corrupted. Where I don't have to worry about the government being all jacked up and with the upper class and just being selfish or just doing things when it suits them. It all makes me feel like I cant trust the government. Even the police abuse their power to the extreme! Police are suppose to make you and the city feel safe by reducing endangered criminals, but sometimes they are the real criminals behind the scene. Why can't most things be equal, like whats the problem with everyone having benefits and survival things. We clearly have enough food and money to give to everyone, especially the ones who seriously need it. But the government doesn't care about the dying poor, they need an enemy, they need to be hated on and they need to be unfair for their plan to work all together. I think its pretty fucked up how the government just drains all its problems and the poor are the ones who have to suffer from it under the sewer. Meaning the government always wants to just push everything down or to the side and since the poor is in the lower class, they're almost invisible to ignorant people. Though the problems never go away they just keep piling up until another president gets elected and has to maybe find a way to cover it up or take the attention away from it. How do they even rank where the money goes to? "The money" obviously our tax money. I'm thinking its randomly picked out of a hat because the needy are clearly not first on the list. I think after all that I've learned, I'm convinced the U.S is just a fraud. If people really knew how things were here before they came from their countries, they probably would change their minds and just stay where they are at. Some people believe slavery, discrimination and racism is over, but it never even got close to being over. Its always going to be here no matter what, in the black shadows and  in between the lines. 

ObamaCare Vs. Healthcare.

ObamaCare is a health care service for low income citizens, which can help them receive the benefits they need for their health. This plan is for the large group of Americans who struggle everyday, having to decide weather they go to the doctors or eat a meal. Either cost money so they would rather feed their family and just hope their wound heals by itself. Most people who benefit from ObamaCare are the people who's jobs don't give health benefits nor insurance or where some insurance companies turned them down. Even the people are are most healthy have had been rejected on insurance. Now people who have ObamaCare are only paying half the price of their previous insurance. What these people have in common is not enough money or quick doctor appointments or even check ups for future illnesses that can be prevented.

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The situation on healthcare in the U.S has left 50 million people without health insurance and the results end up with 45,000 people dying each year because of it. 700,000 people go bankrupt dealing with health care,  which increases poverty rate. In comparison the 5  largest health insurance companies made a combined profit around $12 billion in 2009. The U.S has fewer doctors and nurses than most high income countries. Hospitals and doctors are disproportionally are located in wealthier areas and public hospitals in areas which are most needed, are shutting down.

Sources
http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf

700,000 families go bankrupt each year just by trying to pay for their health care – even though three quarters of them are insured. (Health Affairs 2006). In comparison, the five largest insurance companies made a combined profit of around $12 billion in 2009. (Department of Health and Human Services 2010) - See more at: http://www.nesri.org/programs/health-care-in-the-united-states#sthash.fXWfB8E6.dpuf