Marcus' Gov Blog

After reading the article “ Health Care’s Biggest Problem Is Getting Worse a nd 2020 Democrats don’t have a plan to fix it. ” I have come to the conclusion to agree with the message the article is trying to convey. The message of the article, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/10/12/health-cares-biggest-problem-is-getting-worse/ seems to be pointed to families who don’t have private insurance companies or who aren’t granted insurance by the government, due to the fact they can’t meet the requirements. The author Anne Kim, has used data and research from 2012 and 2016 to show a comparison between the concentrated hospital markets. Over a 4-year time period the concentration market becomes worse when the fields begin to merge further. Research has found that “ price hikes are especially dramatic—as much as 20 percent—when hospitals in already concentrated markets merge further. Even worse, the ultimate potential casualty of consolidation is often patient wellbeing.” Ki...

After reading the article Kamala Harris doesn't mince words on healthcare and abortion bans in debate: 'Women will die' , I have become more educated on the topic of abortion and also an ongoing theme and struggle women are dealing with in their equal right movement. Kamala Harris has given a beautifully constructed and insightful speech on the struggles of abortion in America. This article, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/15/1892731/-Kamala-Harris-doesn-t-splice-words-on-healthcare-and-abortion-bans-in-debate-Women-will-die#read-more   is worth reading because; as a young male in our country I have been educated to some degree on abortion through social media, pop culture, literature. But never have I been as educated on the topic as I was when I sat down and read this article. Due to the fact as stated in the article, “ Reproductive health has gotten almost no air time, reproductive health and women’s equality in earlier debates has gotten notably l...