Blog Stage Three: Substantial commentary or criticism #1

In the opinion section of the Dallas Morning News, the article "Health-Care Reform: Why Not Try Ownership?" displays Deroy Murdock's insider opinion to Obama's new Health-care plan, known more commonly as "Obamacare." The author's intended audience is quite obviously the middle-class and upper middle-class who will not be helped by this new health-care plan, but hurt the most out of all classes due to Obama's "stealing from the rich and giving to the poor" way of going about things. The author points out that the extremes that Obama is going to is much too "big a solution" for "too small a problem." Murdock enforces his opinion with substantial evidence, such as the Census Bureau statistic that 45.7 million Americans lack health insurance along with the actual statistic of "8 million Americans [who] are uninsured due to chronic illness or working-poor status," which Pacific Research Institute president Sally Pipes deduced, thus his opinion is credible due to the supporting evidence. Murdock's claim is that if the actual number of people who were in need of health-care were taken into account, the problem could still be solved but at a much smaller cost than the $1.5 trillion estimate made by the Congressional Budget Office. I completely agree with Murdock's claim and believe that it is ridiculous that the middle- and upper-middle classes are having to forfeit monies that they have made themselves to pay for health-care for not only the people that need it, but for the 14 million people who are "eligible for, yet have not enrolled in, the Medicaid and S-CHIP programs" as well as the "10 million uninsured which may be illegal aliens."