I am collecting data on the hashtag #ObamaCare to determine whose going to pay for President Trump’s new policies, and to see how people all over the world react to Trump’s new policies.<\/p>\n
#ObamaCare is a hashtag that I would like to follow and learn more about, as this is another new controversy as a result of the Trump election. President Trump wants to get rid of Obama Care, which takes away health care for many people. Many people are expressing their displeasure with Trump on Twitter, as he thinks ObamaCare has too many problems associated with it. I think that this is a hashtag that will give\u00a0a lot of data to work with as many people depend on ObamaCare and will continue to fight for it. On the other hand, many people also support Trump’s decision to get rid of Obamacare so I hope to learn reasons as to why so many people are expressing their concern about Trump’s decision to get rid of Obamacare, as well as reasons as to why people are supporting him.I’m also very curious to see who ends up paying for all the things that Obamacare covered and curious to see if the government or people have different solutions\/plans to make up for the loss of Obamacare. I find this to be a topic of interest because I want to end up somewhere in the health field in the future, and this is something that will most definitely affect professions in this field. Before I looked at all the tweets regarding my hashtag, I expected to see a even split of tweets supporting Obama Care and tweets supporting President Trump’s decision to repeal Obama Care, and this is something that I found to be accurate after scrolling through hundreds of tweets. One thing that stood out to be that I wasn’t really expecting was the amount of tweets by government figures (President Trump, President Obama, Paul Ryan, and multiple senators) that were being retweeted religiously. One of these tweets was by Speaker Paul Ryan: “RT @SpeakerRyan: This week, the House made a lot of progress on our plans to repeal & replace #Obamacare. https:\/\/t.co\/98rUR3buYn @jordan_rhew”, but there were also tweets from Obama Care supporters that were being retweeted: “RT @OFA: Public pressure is working. Don’t stop fighting\u2014keep calling to protect #Obamacare: https:\/\/t.co\/Dg2QTU2WCD #CareNotChaos https\u2026 @Bostonbriana”. \u00a0I wasn’t expecting this hashtag to cause so much controversy on Twitter, but I was very wrong abut that. I\u00a0noticed that many people who support Obama Care have been stating facts\/statistics to show how Obama Care has benefited the lives of so many families around America. From my understanding, there is a huge sense of fear throughout this country as a result of many people thinking that they are not going to be able to afford proper health care for themselves and their families, and I can feel this sense of fear through many of the tweets that I read.<\/p>\n There were not many search results in the last week when I entered #Obamacare into google, but when I entered ‘Obamacare’ or ‘Obama care’, over 10 pages of results showed up. I talked to Tim Peng about how his search went when he searched for results for #makeamericagreatagain, and he had a similar issue where there were not many results, but when Tim searched ‘make america great again’, hundreds of articles came up. I believe that it is more beneficial, and easier to find articles on your topic, by searching it without the hashtag. I was able to find articles that both supported Trump, and ones that show how repealing Obamacare can financially hurt many families. The articles I read have been mentioning new regulations that Trump and his administration are imposing on Obamacare to fix some of the flaws Trump believed it had. I read an outstanding article on Boston.com about how a family would not be able to afford a $200,000 backpack that keeps their child (who suffers from\u00a0idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension) alive without Obamacare, which is something that hit me hard. If Obamacare gets repealed, this child is going to have a tough time surviving as her family would not be able to afford the life saving backpack. This article really opened my eyes about what is happening with this huge controversy and how some people depend on Obamacare for their survival. I also read articles about how doctors talk about if Obamacare gets repealed, their needs to be an immediate replacement that meets the needs of all the people who depend heavily on Obamacare.<\/p>\n Due to the fact that Obamacare was signed into law in March of 2010, I was not able to find any articles on Obamacare that dated back to 2006. President Obama was not president in 2006, President Bush was, which explains why Obamacare was not yet a policy in 2006. I talked to a few other friends in the class who also had some difficulty finding articles that dated back to 2006, as some of our topics were not relevant then.<\/p>\n This article gave me a new perception on data scraping and how essential it is in understanding data about various issues. On top of that, this lab was unreal in the way that we were able to track tweets at the same time they were being tweeted and learn about different perspectives that people have about a single topic. After reading the article by Marres and Welteverde, I feel like I am collecting live data and, as well as connecting to the actual liveliness of an issue, in this case, Obamacare. I was able to see various interactions between people and this topic, and able to see the various ways people feel about Obamacare being repealed. I was able to see different points of views, from people of all ages, genders, and social status. It was truly amazing to see all the different emotions that came with different tweets, and that is where I felt the connection to the actual liveliness of the issue. This was a great lab and I look forward to learning more about Obamacare and what happens with it in the near future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Citations:<\/p>\n Mangan, Dan. 2017. “Trump administration proposes new Obamacare regulation that could make ‘special enrollments’ tougher”. CNBC (cnbc.com). February 2.\u00a0http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/02\/02\/proposed-new-obamacare-regulation-could-restrict-special-enrollments.html<\/p>\n Fox, Maggie. 2017. “Doctors Make the Case for Obamacare or Something Like it”. NBC news (nbcnews.com). February 2.\u00a0http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-care\/doctors-make-case-obamacare-or-something-it-n716196<\/p>\n Siegel, Marc. 2017. “What Republicans Need to Remove, Keep and Add to Obamacare”. Observer (observer.com). February 3.\u00a0http:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/02\/obamacare-remove-keep-add\/<\/p>\n Dwyer, Dialynn. 2017. “A $200,000 backpack keeps this toddler alive. Without Obamacare, her family couldn’t afford it”. Boston.com. February 2.\u00a0https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/national-news\/2017\/02\/02\/this-3-year-old-receives-life-saving-medicine-from-a-backpack-without-obamacare-her-family-couldnt-afford-it<\/p>\n Marres, Noortje, and Esther Weltevrede. 2013. \u201cScraping the Social?\u201d Journal of Cultural Economy 6 (3): 313\u201335<\/p>\n\n\n
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