Obama blames 'bad apple' insurers for canceled coverage

Description: Obamacare
Date: November 13, 2013
Found at: http://nyulocal.com

This article is on the topic of Obamacare. The article stated that "the termination of individual policies has given his Republican opponents additional ammunition to criticize the program they have tried to stop since its inception in Obama's first term." Many people that were under Obamacare have been having their coverage cancelled or found their monthly payments beyond what they can afford.


Obama was seeking to assure people that the government was not going to take over health care, and that they could keep their old plan if that is what they preferred. He needed to do this because many people do not trust the government to make health care decisions for them. I think that people find it hard to trust the government because it is difficult for some government officials to relate to a common individual. Some think that the government doesn't really care or think about the average person. Also, the government tends to make drastic changes to certain things and it affects many people in a negative way.


It is not right for a President to be untruthful to get the public to accept something he sincerely believes is for their own good? The President shouldn't have to hide the truth at all. They are suppose to be leading a country. If you are untruthful your are demonstrating that it is okay for the citizens of your country to be untruthful.


Personally, I am not into government or politics. Some things about the government are just hard for me to understand. For example, this whole Obamacare thing. I have no idea what it is all about. Reading this article was a little confusing, but I understood the basic points. I think it is very beneficial to know more about the government because it could directly affect the future.

Article Link: http://www.reuters.com

Dogs Are People, Too

Gregory Barnes, a professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University, and some of his colleagues have been training dogs to go in an M.R.I scanner completely conscious and unrestrained. They were hoping to discover how dogs' brain works and what they speculate of humans. After training and scanning a dozen dogs it was concluded that dogs are people, too. Results from the M.R.I scans showed an astonishing

similarity between dogs and humans in both the structure and the key function of a key brain region knows as the caudate nucleus. The caudate plays a major role in the anticipation of of things we enjoy. Meaning, dogs enjoy some of the same things humans enjoy.

Description: Dog
Date: January 20, 2013
Found at: http://andreanotk.blogspot.com

Personally, I don't know where this whole research is going. I can't imagine dogs and humans being thought of as equal. I understand that there may be some similarities between dogs and humans, but there is still a fine line that separates humans from dogs and other animals. Dogs may enjoy the same things as humans, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we share the same emotions. I believe that humans have certain levels of emotion that dogs don't. I both agree and disagree with Berns when he states that, "DOGS have long been considered property." There are laws that are now set in place that protects dogs from things like abuse, just like how there is for humans. However, I also agree with the statement made in the article that said, "Though the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and state laws raised the bar for the treatment of animals, they solidified the view that animals are things — objects that can be disposed of as long as reasonable care is taken to minimize their suffering."

Article Link:http://www.nytimes.com