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1. Did voters accept a law without proper consent? It’s hypocritical of a
healthcare law to lack informed consent?
Did voters accept a law without proper consent? It’s hypocritical of a healthcare law to lack
informed consent?Did voters accept a law without proper consent? It’s hypocritical of a
healthcare law to lack informed consent?Permalink: https:// /did-voters-accep…informed-
consent/Please respond to the below post to a classmate. (Between 250-350 words and 1-3
references) Original thoughts. nothing fancy, this is easy money. The purpose is to give
feedback, see the attached document for the sample response. What is politics? From the
Greek word “politicos” meaning “of, for or relating to citizens” is the process of making
uniform decisions applying to all members of a group. Then we may ask the question what
is the end goal of politics? That is to say, what is its purpose, what are its objectives?Some
say that politics don’t have a moral end goal but its task is to achieve a successful outcome
for its member. Such a statement affirms two theses: Politics only aim is to achieve a
successful outcomeThis also excludes a moral process along the way Does the passage of
the affordable care act mirror the above thesis? James Bovary (Bovary, 2014) in his opinion
piece explains the systemic deceit at the highest level of the government to aid in the
passage of the Affordable Care Act. He made the case that the administration slippery
assertions that were reported as “hard evidence” should have been portrayed as a political
spin. As proof is the fact that the bill promised that people would be allowed to keep their
doctor and health plans just to be followed by millions of cancellations later by the
insurance company. The promise that the bill will cut the number of uninsured and no one
will be denied health coverage tapped into the moral and social benefits of the law that
made it hard to be argued against. Reviewing the past promotions of the law, it only
highlights its major benefits. Had the law upcoming fallout been explained or exposed, many
would not have favored the personal shortfall of the law. None would have cared about its
social benefit in decreasing the uninsured rates. Did voters accept a law without proper
consent? It’s hypocritical of a healthcare law to lack informed consent? Was the end a
success? It is debatable, this healthcare law has many policies issues. The political
exploitation of the law relies not by what the voters don’t know, it’s what they know that
that is not so is the culprit of leadership misguidance. Schoolchild in her article says it best
that politicians’ incentives are asymmetrical in that it encouraged people to stay
misinformed and politically active which is often easier and produces larger pay-offs
compared to encouraging them to obtain correct factual knowledge or persuading the

2. disengaged to use their existing knowledge in the public arena (Schoolchild & Einstein,
2015). The combination of politicians’ incentives, misinformation, and political activity in
accord with that misinformation can lead to irresponsible governance and bad policies, with
potentially devastating consequences which is so far the outcome of the Affordable Care
Act. Cohen a fellow at Century Foundation states this “…accuse Obama of lying about
health-care reform — but understand the simple underlying reality: we can’t handle the
truth.” (Cohen, 2013). In summary he says that it’s important to keep in mind that Obama
was–to a large degree telling Americans what they wanted to hear. In fact, he was giving
them the type of comforting assurances they insist upon getting before backing any major
policy change from Washington. The creation of Social Security is a great example of such
lies aIDed to the social condition of the time which favored its passage. During this era of
mass unemployment, a major justification of its creation was to encourage older workers to
leave the labor force. Commissioner Stanford Ross conceded in 1979 that “the mythology of
Social Security contributed greatly to its success … Strictly speaking, the system was never
intended to return to individuals what they paid.” When the feds default on Social Security
payments promised to current and future generations, citizens will learn too late that
10,000 political promises are worth less than one wooden nickel. (Bushwhacker,
1981) (Bovary, 2014). We live in a society where we can’t afford errors on a mass scale.
Pragmatism policy emphasizes the practical application of ideas by acting on them to
actually test them in human experiences. This philosophical policy making is currently
being implemented in the military where introduction of women in special elite force is
warranted. The concerns are multiple but the pressing one is will they be able to carry a
wounded fellow combatant or would they become a liability for a navy seal team for
example.Bibliography Bovary, J. (2014, November 12). The Obamacare deception of ‘stupid’
Americans. Retrieved from The Washington
Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/12/james-bovard-the-
obamacare-deception-of-stupid-ame/ Bushwhacker, R. V. (1981). Reviewed Work: Policy
making for Social Security by Martha Der thick. The Journal of Human Resources, 16(1),
157-160. dpi:10.2307/145227 Cohen, M. (2013, October 10). Behind Obama’s lie, our own
immaturity. Retrieved from New York Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/behind-
obama-lie-immaturity-article-1.1511360 Schoolchild, J., & Einstein, K. L. (2015, July). ‘It isn’t
what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so’: misinformation
and democratic politics. British Journal of Political Science, 45(3), 467-475.
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