Literacy Blog #10:

Article: http://www.reuters.com

The reason for President Obama creating Obamacare was to in the end make sure that the people did not have lose coverage between them and their healthcare providers. I think the reason for people not trusting the government is because we don't exactly know what goes on in the government as much as us Americans citizens should. They tend to keep things private from citizens and out of the public eye, and some of us see that as being real shady.

Insurers not paying for healthcare, will probably get the same care backed up by any other person. As said in the article they are suppose to inform their customers about their options and helping them to enroll them. Health care is not only provided by insurance companies but also the American Health Insurance Plan.

I'm pretty sure that buying Health care directly and buying insured health care Health care is the actual supplying of medical treatment to patients--tests, diagnoses, prescriptions, nursing care, and so forth. Health insurance is a means of paying for it over time, we pay into a fund even while we are well so that when we get sick there is money to pay for our care. I think that if the government calls for taxes and pays for everyone wouldn't have the same freedom, because they wouldn't be making their own decisions, the government would be. Obama said, "Remember, before the Affordable Care Act, these bad-apple insurers had free rein every single year to limit the care that you received, or used minor pre-existing conditions to jack up your premiums, or bill you into bankruptcy."

I do not believe that the president should be untruthful to the public. It is our right and freedom to be aware what our country is up to, especially if it concerns our health. I may not know a lot about politics, and I don't find this subject the most interesting, but I do thing we should be able to know what America is doing.

Literacy Blog #9: Dogs Are People, Too

The reason for some scientist trying to dismiss questions about what animals think and feel is because dogs don't have some of the actions that humans have, such as talking. As said in the article "You can’t ask a dog why he does something. And you certainly can’t ask him how he feels. The prospect of ferreting out animal emotions scares many scientists." Does an MRI tell us the content of someone’s thoughts or feelings? I do believe that dogs do share some of the same emotions that are present in humans. For example, when a master comes home from work, the dog may show excitement by wagging its tail in joy. MRI's don't necessarily show a persons thoughts, but it does show the internal state of the brain. Different emotions trigger different parts of the brain, showing that dogs do have different emotions It is Berns right to say that the law treats dogs as things because it is his opinion and he has a right to express it. On the other hand I don't exactly agree with him, because I have always thought that dogs were apart of a family. I treat my dog as just another member and not as a thing that are playthings for humans. It would be wrong to treat humans like they do dogs being we are the dominant species and I would be weird the other way around. Dogs don’t have opposable thumbs, they don’t talk, they don’t have as clever minds as humans do, so I don’t see how humans could ever be treated as a lesser being. I mean dogs are animals, they don’t do the same things as humans, although they have similar emotions, doesn’t replace their right to be treated higher than a person. If our world does come to a time where dogs somehow gain the ability to think and act like people, then we should be scared because an animal talking is crazy!