The First Reading By Sarah Helene Duggin - 973 Words

In the first reading by Sarah Helene Duggin, compared the Obama care reform introduced by Obama and the New Deal reform introduced by Roosevelt. She highlights how these two reform are similar because in both there are two categories of people. There is people are favorable to the reform while other see the reform as a threat. For Sarah, these two cases have brought up major constitutional principles such as the separation of powers, taxing and spending power and Commerce Power. Finally, the author demonstrate that the opponent is these two reforms seems to be the business sector which see the reform as a threat for the economy. Nonetheless, the author claimed that the best way to ensure political accountability to the ACA is to allow the political process to take its course in congress and believe that constitutional question relative to federalism over individual power and limit of federal power shouldn’t impact the healthcare reform. In the second reading by Richard Saltman, for the author, the health care insurance exchange only benefit those who lacked insurance before. The ones who had a good insurance before will have some important annual deductible and have seen their premium increase to 30-60%. For Richard, the fact that the opposition has never turned into a political action is due to the failure of the opposition Republican Party and their incapacity to propose alternative strategy. Richard concludes by saying that The Supreme Court ruling in favor of the federal