RENAMING EDEN

Renaming Eden: A Qualitative Analysis of US Government Semantics in the Modern Era of Change

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Renaming Eden: A Qualitative Analysis of US Government Semantics in the Modern Era of Change

Introduction

The policies and practices are the communication drivers of Government and have a direct influence on the life of current citizen and future generations. This paper assesses the Obama Government Semantics in the modern era, particularly with reference to Health Bill. The paper also examines the change from negative connotation to positive connotative because of the Health Bill. The paper analyzes how the administration of Obama communicates its objectives to US citizens, and evaluates positive and negative face of the policy by using strategic ambiguity, euphemism and equivocation.

Barack Obama in his inauguration stated that his mission was to change the mindset of the citizens and the role of government. He took the initiative of reforming the US Health Bill by introducing The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This Act is a federal statute passed by 39 votes out of 60 in the Senate and endorsed by US President Barack Obama on 23rd March 2010. PPACA requires individual mandate and reform certain aspects of public health insurance programs and private health insurance industry, by increasing pre-existing conditions insurance coverage, raise expected national medical spending, and expanding insurance access to 30 million citizens while decreasing projected spending of Medicare.

Discussion

The history of reframing by the US administrations is very long and not new. In this paper, the health care perceptive is discussed. Some of them include COBRA (1985), SCHIP (1997) and PPACA (2010). In 1965, former President Lyndon Johnson ratified legislation that set up a policy for senior citizen covering both hospital and general medical insurance, which is paid by a Federal employment tax over tenure of employment of the retiree. The Medicare gives authority to Federal government to partly fund for impoverished citizen. This plan allows co-financing by the state and individual.

COBRA or Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act was established in 1985; this act amended the act of 1974 titled Employee Retirement Income Security Act to provide a number of employees opportunity of ability to maintain and carry out health insurance coverage after leaving the job (McCaughey, 2010).

The State Children's Health Insurance Program or SCHIP was introduced by the Federal government of United States during the year 1997. This program provided children the health care insurance, which is living below the federal poverty line of 200 percent.

In the year 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reframed by the administration of Barack Obama, which provide a gradual introduction more than four years of an inclusive scheme of mandate health insurance with designed reforms to eradicate insurance companies worst practices such as premium loadings and pre-condition screening, withdrawal of policy on technicalities when poor health seems imminent, annual coverage caps and lifetime. It also laid down minimum ratio of direct health care spending to premium income, and formulating three standard insurance levels ...