HW 7B Hidden Premises and Conclusions

Part 1:  
Note: When You Diagram Arguments with Hidden Premises and Conclusions Put an "H" in from of the premise.  Eg.  if P2 is hidden put "HP2".  If a conclusion or subconclusion is hidden, put HMC or HC1.
P. 142 6C
1. d-i
2. a-c

Part 2
Poor Mrs. Wumi Abdul.  She only has a few more months before she has to rule her country. She has no idea what kind of healthcare system she should have.  She's considered having one similar to the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA).  The problem is that people seem to be giving arguments for both sides.  Does this mean there's no right answer?  

Part of her problem is that many of the arguments seem to contain hidden premises and conclusions and she doesn't know how to find them.  How can she properly evaluate the arguments if she can't even find the premises and conclusions?  I have assured her that my class is absolute experts at picking out hidden premises and conclusions...they've been doing it for at least...1 day.  

Please help Mrs. Wumi Abdul decide whether she should adopt an ACA-style healthcare policy. To help her (1) for each argument, identify any hidden premises and conclusions  (2)  For only 1 pro and 1 con argument, make a diagram, (3) for one of your diagrammed arguments in (2), evaluate for burden of proof, premise acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency. (4)  In premise-conclusion form, construct and diagram an argument for which position Mrs. Wumi Abdul should adopt.   Mrs. Wumi Abdul is offering 100 Grand for the best argument on each side.

From An Anti-ACA Website:

1.  Your Health Care Coverage Will Probably Change Anyway: Even if you keep your private insurance, eventually most remaining plans will have to conform to new federal benefit standards. Moreover, the necessary plan “upgrades” will undoubtedly cost you more in premiums.


2.  Taxpayer-Funded Abortions? Nineteen Democrats recently asked the President to not sign any bill that doesn’t explicitly exclude “abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan” or any bill that allows a federal health board to “recommend abortion services be included under covered benefits or as part of a benefits package.” Currently, these provisions do not exist.

From a Pro-ACA Website: 

3.   First, a civilized society compensates for the human propensity to screw up.  To err is human, but so is to forgive. Living in a community means being interconnected in myriad ways — including by empathy. To feel undiminished by the deaths of those around us isn’t heroic Ayn Rand individualism. It’s sociopathic. Compassion isn’t a sign of weakness, but of civilization.


4.  The individual mandate requires that there are no more free rides on the insurance we all must pay. If you can afford Health Care insurance and don’t purchase it, then you will pay a fee, a penalty, a tax. Yep, call what it will, but you can no longer freeload off the American people. You must pay your fair share.