This article discusses the decision that states across the union must make about the new healthcare reform on Friday. By that time, each state must decide whether or not they will assume responsibility for healthcare exchanges. No matter the decision, citizens will not be affected immediately. As time goes on, however, the article states that consumers will likely benefit from states running the healthcare marketplace. This article was written a week before the decisions are due, making many of its opinions predictions about the week ahead. This article was found on CNN and was written by a political and business expert.
As the Affordable Care Act is not well-understood by many Americans, it was evident that the article targeted the individuals that were going to be affected by this decision. It was designed to fully explain the effects of the consumer of the Act to these people. First, the article explained a brief portion of the decision by the states and of the act and then immediately related it to how that portion of the Act will affect the public. In order to accomplish his purpose, the author used ethos by announcing the positions and experience of his references and of the writers of the quotations he used. This had the effect of making the reader buy into the opinions of the speakers in the article. Also, the article uses parallelism to delve deeper into the connections and into the information. For example, the author states that only five states have already decided to assume responsibility for the exchanges. Then using the same format, the article discusses the republican states' views and the democratic states' views. Overall, the article was very effective because it was able to simplify a complex topic so that an everyday person could understand it and apply it to their personal circumstances.
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