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ACA. These opinions were dependent upon their specialty and which groups they were aligned with. The Physicians for a National Health Program believed that private health insurance options should be eliminated altogether, while the AMA continued to favor tax advantages for health savings accounts (Quadagno, 2011). Overall the ACA has restructured the nation’s entire healthcare system, covered millions more, and has the potential to slow healthcare inflation. However, only time will tell if these changes will have the best interests of America’s public in mind. The Media’s Perspective Partisan ideology will always be an issue when addressing contended political and federal legislation. The media can play a key role in the information they choose to relay to the public. The public may choose to read an entire article, but may be left with only a few words and phrases that resonate in their mind such as an “increase in premiums,” “re-insurance,” or “death panels.” For most Americans, the true concern comes down to dollars and cents – the cost. Given the complexity of the United States health care system as well as the laws that regulate this system, many Americans may interpret health care programs in place differently. When information is spewed out in articles, most of the general public is not interested in the source of this information, but the information itself. Depending on the source, bias can arise as a factor, which can potentially skew the information presented. When dissecting the governor’s Healthy Pennsylvania proposal, the governor did not believe that the taxpayers should be “burdened” with rising costs and that, “Medicaid takes away from other program areas like education” (The Department of Public Welfare, 2013). Repeated words such as “safety-net,” “individual responsibility,” “government bureaucracy,” “easy to