Monday, March 22, 2010
I believe this piece of legislation is indeed groundbreaking. I support the bill because the health of individuals should not have a price-tag attached to it. In a country as great as america, it is absurd that 10 percent of our citizens have no access to healthcare. I feel that the bill is not understood by the majority of the population, which leads to the disagreement and dislike of the bill. Republicans seem to just shout out whatever claims they want without proper evidence or knowledge, (i.e. "baby killer"). As of now, it may hurt obama and the democrats because the population does not see the long-term positive effects of the bill, but at the same time I believe this debate hurt the republicans too because of the immaturity they displayed. Hopefully the public will see the benefits of the bill and gain proper perspective of what the bill does for the nation.
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I agree with Vikram. This is truly an amazing event and I'm glad that I'm in this class to discus it with my classmates. I'm glad that the health care reform bill has passed. I'm just interested to know what are their next steps, what will the changes be, who will be hurt by this bill, what happens to those that are already getting health insurance from work, and many other questions. Just the other day, someone said to me that he thinks the health care reform bill is a conspiracy and that the government is trying to get more money for themselves. I think this new bill will hurt Obama if the bill doesn't work. Hopefully, we will be given more information about the bill and how it can benefit our nation.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember what radio station I was listening to but they were saying the bill was for abortion rights and that we have to call our legislatures to say no to the bill and fight for our rights and follow the constitution. I thought it was trying to get people to react and using abortion was one of their ways.
This health reform is going to take several years before we can see the true benefits, but for now I hope that everyone can have more knowledge about the new bill.
I am also very excited about this; while it doesn't fix everything, it seems like it will make a noticeable difference fairly quickly, according to the prospective schedules I've seen. It's going to take a while to really see overarching benefit, but hopefully the number of people who can finally pick up insurance (I believe the preexisting conditions ban starts immediately?) will make enough of an impact to convince people that this whole "reform" thing was a pretty darn good thing to try out. This also opens the door to further reform -- perhaps one day this country will try out a single payer system or something else more comprehensive now that the first step has been taken.
ReplyDeleteThe abortion thing also had me shaking my head, because it seems like almost no anti-abortion people ever think to look at what other countries are doing -- and what they might be doing RIGHT. For example, France has a 20% LOWER abortion rate per capita than we do, even though their health system completely covers abortion, and it's largely thought to be a product of the health care (from contraception and sexual health to pre- and postnatal care) as well as the child care support and services that they provide women.
On a side note, with the whole "remember November" thing: how exactly are Republicans going to gain fans with a campaign of "Hey, you know that insurance you just got because you finally got your preexisting condition ignored? I'm gonna help repeal the law that did that." Kinda has me scratching my head!
My error above -- the pre-existing conditions change for kids will begin this year, but the adult part of that won't be in effect yet.
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