Unequal Access: Conclusions

Trump tapped into and fueled the revulsion toward the ACA-already the political divisions as a backlash against Obama.

• beliefs
• resentment of the law rather than the technocrats who fought to implement it
• belief that others are benefitting but not themselves
• deductibles were too high
• bureaucratic hurdles to enrollment
• doctors not accepting coverage
• disagreed with tax implications
• website too difficult to navigate
• took country in wrong direction
• increased health costs
• too big a role for government

-Law became a flashpoint for battles over inequality, fairness, and the role of government

-Became a vehicle for generating hostility against women, immigrants, the poor, and racialized minorities

-politicians used public resentment against the implementation of the law

• The truth?
• some people argue that we are in a post truth culture where facts dont matter, but the authors conclude that facts do matter, and that people are just relying on facts that people they trut tell them. It is more about a rejection of the educated elite rather than facts. They will believ science when it is convenient. -the eclipse will happen at this time- but not when it is associated with the educated "elites" they resent.
• Discourses of truthiness are widespread
• Lessons
• people need and want affordable healthcare
• people need comprehensive, integrated health systems, but we have yet to define what these are
• Oral health (dentisty) is not ever included...why?
• Every other economically advanced country provides universal healthcare
• stratification leads to POOR healthcare
• Stratified approaches to expanding Access generate resentment
• seems unfair
• dont understand how decisions are made
• some fall through cracks
• geography matters
• Enrollment should not be so hard
• poor already have so much surveillance and barriers that constant need to reenroll becomes burdensome
• proposals to add work requirements etc. would increase this burden
• costs more to AUDIT than deliver healthcare
• Anti immigrant polices are anti health
• emergency room cost skyrocket
• Conclusion
• too modest
• did not change for profit structure
• lacked shared social purpose (like Article 54)

Final ethnography template (optional)

 

Title 

• Opening Vignette setting the mood and introducing your audience to an iconic scene in your food culture 
• make sure at least one of your themes is illustrated in the vignette
• quotations should be minimal in a vignette if at all

• First theme
• begin with a short evocative quote (single sentence) --name (heading)
• Introduce the theme through the action of your characters
• Illustrate the theme with quotations and interspersed thick description
• analyze each illustration (this can be enmass for some) and support your analysis with citation from text or your research if appropriate. Cite this in Chicago style.

• Second theme (repeat)

• Third theme (repeat)

• Concluding analysis
• summarize your themes
• summarize your analysis
• conclude with a powerful quote that sums up the meaning/importance of food/cuisine/cooking in your culture

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Further options:

if you have a number of quotes that illustrate a particular theme, try to arrange them so that each adds an element that is used to further develop the theme in your analysis. If you do this, you must also point this out to your readers.

General principles for writing ethnography to remember:

1. We are not writing ABOUT our fieldwork or OUR experiences or what WE learned. We are using our fieldwork and what we learned to craft a description of the culture through their foodways.
2. Any important aspect of culture will be seen in every institution of culture (including food). You are simply revealing the values, beliefs, and practices through this one institution.
3. DESCRIBE things so that your reader can EXPERIENCE the cultural scene as you did. The idea is to have your audience have an EXPERIENCE not that you tell them what is going on. (Show me don't tell me)
4. Remember to use the paralinguistic information in your quotations (not in transcription form but in description). This is a way to keep your thick description throughout the text and not just in vignettes. Make the writing flow
5. Develop you CHARACTERS. Use thick description to do this and introduce them in action.
6. Tell a story from the perspective of your informants, not your. You are simply the tour guide.
7. Cite your supporting research.

Resources:

https://libguides.eastern.edu/c.php?g=115991&p=755822

https://www.pbs.org/food/shows/the-meaning-of-food/

https://www.pbs.org/food/shows/no-passport-required/

https://www.americananthropologist.org/online-content/culinary-cultures

https://arts.duke.edu/news/our-culinary-cultures-food-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Movies

 

Food and Culture

Food as Diplomacy

Food Soveriegnty

Food and Storytelling

Food, Stories, and Connection

Food and Culture

Chinese Cuisine and Culture

Food and Human Evolution