Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Fundamental Breach, Undue Influence
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800,000 federal government non-essential workers temporarily laid off the job. Tea party republican party (12 party or so) are extreme right-wing are completely against anything to do with obamacare, because they believe that it is a right to have the choice not to have health care. The tea party members are extremely influential and powerful people that threatened other republican members that they will not get elected if they do not comply. Knowing that they cannot win the presidential election, they concentrated on obtaining the house. They have been successful, and have blocked everything that the president wants. The democrats argue that the republicans must compromise, as it has been the law for years (won at the. Supreme court), and the democrats won the election last year. In 2 weeks, if the government does not raise the debt ceiling, there will be a catastrophe.