CJVA302: Week 4
Health care reform & race relations
in the United States
Agenda
- Course organization
- Health care reform in the United States
- The Affordable Care Act and Republican efforts
to repeal and replace it
- Race relations in America
- BLM, mass incarceration
Leads
3
 Mark Szabo – Hurricane Maria & Puerto Rico
Health care reform
4
 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
 March 23, 2010
 Gradual phasing in of major provisions
 Key provisions:
 Insurers’ obligations
 Individual mandate
 Subsidies
Repeal efforts
5
 Why the Republican backlash?
 Traditional conservative values
 Partisan politics
 Racism/classism? Religion (e.g. anti-abortion)?
 The Republican senators standing in the way:
 John McCain (R, Arizona)
 Susan Collins (R, Maine)
 Lisa Murkowski (R, Alaska)
American health care reform
6
 Compared to the situations in your countries, what do you
think of the situation in the U.S.?
 Questions?
Race relations in the U.S.
7
 The legacy of Slavery & the Civil War
 Was the Civil War about slavery?
 Reconstruction Era:
Reconstruction Amendments
13th: abolishment of slavery
14th: citizenship
15th: voting rights
Jim Crow laws – “separate but equal”
Pop quiz
8
 Can you name these people?
Pop quiz
9
 What about these people?
Pop quiz
10
 Or these people?
Race in America
11
 Civil Rights Movement – 1960s movement to end
segregation and create greater racial equality
 Black Lives Matter – recent movement started in response to
police brutality
 Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown
Leads
12
 Aigerim Nurseitova – Race in the States
Video & discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CK7f8A4tPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51_pzax4M0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk
13Define footer - Name of the presentation / Your name / Unit, Office