What kind of person is against health care reform? Who does not believe that access to health care should be available to every citizen? Why do some people claim that health care is a privilege and not a right? When do people against health care reform believe the time will be right to offer affordable health care to everyone? It seems impossible that these questions exist in a country as wealthy as America.
However, the wealth in this country is against health care reform, and Corporate America is in jeopardy of losing their death-grip on this country. If a so-called ‘public option’ exists, it will certainly create competition with big insurance companies and those companies cannot let that monopoly get away from them. They are expending huge amounts of money on advertising to scare the public, and get support from the likes of Sarah Palin, Fox News and their ultra-conservative hate-mongers. If health care reform meant forcing every person in this country to buy private health insurance at a high premium, the insurance industry would be front and center in support of such a law.
Instead, they use scare tactics and Fox News commentators like Glenn Beck to manipulate citizens and ‘tea party’ supporters to protest health care reform that will benefit many of the protestors. The argument that people who do not work, or are illegal citizens will get free health care is misguided and misinformed. There is an obscene amount of our citizens who work and do not have any health care although they pay taxes and contribute to the economy.
The Senators and Congressional members who voted against reform have excellent health care insurance paid for by the some of the very people who protest against health care reform and are uninsured themselves. Those Senators, Congressmen, and women who vote against health care for all are privileged. So their argument that health care is a privilege has some merit if one applies a double standard as they traditionally do.
The tragedy in this debate is that there are people suffering and dying every day in this country because they lack affordable health care. The cost of health care is exorbitant and drug and insurance industries are getting rich off the backs of those who can afford health insurance. All the while, people stand with signs screaming no to health care.
It just does not make any sense for the richest country in the world to neglect so many of its own citizens. It does not make sense for so many citizens to be willing to refuse basic health care to their fellow citizens. It does make sense that big business never wants health care reform and they will use any tactic to achieve their goal. They are using advertising dollars and ignorant citizens now; if that fails, what will they try next?
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This heathcare bill is a joke just like the $800B "recovery" bill. We should through out Nancy and all in congress.
This "reform" increases spending and dept for my generation to deal with while the deficit explodes to a projected $18T by 2018. Hey what about jobs and the economy!!!! WAKE UP.
What a mistake. I no longer support BO. We need people who arn't selling our generation out to unions and special interest groups.
VOTE THEM OUT IN 2010!
House of Hate that's Apporipreate Since all the do is Use Defamotory Comments about other People Its Pathetic FOX is not News Its a Political Operation.
your wrong nextgen
those reforms will end up saving money in the future
you're drinking the Faux News kool-aid if you really believe what you wrote
The cost estimates are very misleading... From requiring people who are without coverage to purchase insurance or pay large fines and shift a large amount of costs on to the states to prevent the appearance of adding to the federal deficit. It also assumes a gigantic cut in medicare costs (by cutting benefits, of course), a program that has ballooned since it's inception to 3-4 times it's initially projected costs. It also begins taxation in 2010 with "benefits" being slowly introduced between 2013 and 2018, matching 10 years of taxation with only 6-7 years of actual services. Not to mention the only tort reform in the bill actually requires an alternative to litigation to in no way lower attorney or patient compensation, effectively preventing any reduction in doctor costs. None of the numbers add up to actual savings, just politically slanted accounting designed to hide true costs. If you can make a rational argument against any of these points, samegame, I heartily welcome it.
I might also add that this article was not well written and without almost a single legitimate argument. I suspect examiner.com has less than stringent standards in its recruiting. I am not going to try to pick this entire article apart, but I will say this... I doubt there are many people in the United States that want to prevent any single citizen from getting health care, but a takeover of an entire industry by government is certainly not the way to do it, much in the same way that I wouldn't support a takeover of the restaurant industry as a solution to the problem of some group of people being without food. Perhaps a tax on "cadillac meals" and a "public restaurant", including fines and possibly jail time on anyone who skips a meal...
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