Health Law Concerns for Cancer Centers

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This article is about the Aforable Care Act.  It talks about how under the new health law, some of the most prestigous cancer centers will be off limits to cancer patients.  There was a survey done by the Associated Press that only four of 19 nationally recognized comprehensive cancer centers that responded to AP's survey said patients have access through all the insurance companies in their state exchange.  According to the article, in order to keep premiums low, insurers must keep a narrow network of hospitals and doctors.  It goes on to explain that by not including top cancer centers, insurers can cut costs.  The article also makes a point to say that the challenges of this problem are going to become evident very soon.  This article relates to APGoPo because it goes right along with the propaganda techniques we were talking about on Thursday.  In this case I think it is safe to assume that this article is using card-stacking to attack the Affordable Care Act.  No where in the article does it mention something positive about the new health laws.

In my opinion, its obvious that we would like for the top cancer centers to be open to cancer patients.  That's just common sense and a no brainer.  However, it is equally important to acknowlegde that under the Afordable Care Act patients with cancer are able to be insured.  Prior to the ACA insurers could deny cancer patients any isurance at all.  It might just be me, but that is just absurd.  Of course if you're thinking about it in terms of money it seems logical.  However, I would hope that human rights are more important than money.  Furthermore, the article only offered stats on the 19 comprehensive cancer centers that responded but didn't tell the reader how many total comprehensive cancer centers there were.  Therefore, its safe to assume that there may be more top cancer centers that are open to cancer patients than the article leads the reader to belive.