Is it Obamacare aka Affordable Healthcare Act or Affordable
Healthcare Act aka Obamacare? Either way, from its inception it has been plagued
with negativity and now that the role out has begun, it seems Obamacare is
already limping. In this editorial
published on The Huffington Post blog,
Jeffrey Young writes about a problem with the website.
Before
I continue, I would like to apply some recently acquired knowledge and consider
the source of which I found this article.
The Huffington Post was founded
by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart, and Jonah Peretti. The
site was launched on May 9, 2005, as a liberal/left commentary outlet and
alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report. In 2011, The
Huffington Post was purchased by none other than AOL which is now owned by Time
Warner. So we can trace it back to one of the six major corporations. M-m-m-m
Media Madness for $2000.00 please. What is “Concentrated Ownership” (This is an
inside SI pun).
The one
encouraging aspect is that in 2012, The
Huffington Post became the first commercially run United States digital
media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. With this, and the fact the Arianna
Huffington, after selling to AOL for $315 million, stayed on as editor-in-chief,
in my mind gives it some credibility. Being
a blog, I believe its intended audience is the general public and the writer Jeffrey Young is a
health care reporter at The Huffington Post and has covered health care,
business, and politics for more than a decade.
In the
Editorial, “Obamacare
Website Failure Threatens Health Coverage for Millions of Americans,” Young
stays with the issue of which he is writing about. I do not read into his
article any bias on Young’s part in favoring or disfavoring Obamacare. He references many sources throughout his
article and quotes one individual from an established university, acknowledging
this individual as an Obamacare supporter. Young also quotes the president of the
Alexandria, Va.-based Health Policy and Strategy Associates. In the many articles I researched to find this
one, I find Young’s objective journalism to be refreshing if not encouraging. I
feel his article is solely intended to inform the general public and is not an
article that can be interpretive of agenda setting.
In
closing, I would like to state that I am extremely pleased that my military
benefits covering my healthcare enable me to be excluded from this healthcare
act and I will not be one of the millions that must deal with Obamacare or these
types of obstacles. This is a good thing
as I still do not fully understand all the controversy surrounding this issue.
I invite you to read this article and to be aware of this situation and the
need to act now in securing your healthcare coverage.