The Top Ten Immediate Benefits When Health Care Reform Passes

The absolute best result if this bill passes is that the leftist socialist liberal dems will be toast.

The best result will be that even the people who have denigrated this plan will be able to afford healthcare insurance for themselves and their children. It’s not perfect…and women are being forced to eat ajar of dirt (proudly provided by the Republicans) but it’s a heck of a start.

What part of a $1,000,000,000,000.00 do we not understand? This is not the solution. Yeah, some of the “reforms” would be desireable but this is not reform; this is another giagantic entitlement program. What is next ? Everyone is entitlled to eat. Does that mean that we should also open a federal commissary. What has happened to this country? What has happened to concepts of personal responsibility and self reliiance? These reforms are not insurance, they are a public dole, plain and simple.

You do not by insurance to pay for your morning coffee or gasoline. You buy insurance to protect against the unpredictable. Health Insurance should be reserved for the non predictable financially damaging events of life and not for health maintenance. Most health care is no different than putting food on the table. Perhaps a solution is to REQUIRE people to provide for themselves by mandating personal health savings accounts that each would own and be reponsible to allocate for day to day health care. These could be coupled with a major medical high deductible for major health issues. For those truly unfortunate there is always room for a safety net of a combination of private and public help.

In any event maybe a case can be made to address issues of preexisting or catastrophic health events but how is it governments responsibility to provide health care to the obese, indolent, addictive, boozing irresponsible parasites posing as human beings?

A generation ago our country was looked up to by the rest of the world. How can we be respected when we are moving toward being a nation of haves and have-nots and our representatives won’t work together to take care of our own? As a working person in North Carolina, where a single, formerly non-profit health insurance company has a near-monopoly and many of my co-workers simply cannot afford to purchase health insurance for their children, I find it interesting to see how much is being spent to keep this increasingly profitable arrangement in place through paid advertisements, scare tactics and direct payments to the campaign funds of our legislators on BOTH sides of the aisle. Health insurance executives received bonuses last year when people in our state were worried about their jobs, much less raises or bonuses. If the health care bill does not pass or is overturned, what makes us think our health premiums won’t go up even faster and that we won’t be dropped from coverage after the first bad test report?
It is maddening to hear seniors who would never give up their Medicare benefits argue that we mustn’t involve government in providing even the most basic health care for children or for people who are working but who either can’t afford to pay or who don’t qualify for coverage.
I have been told that Medicare was once fiercely opposed, so I’m focusing on a glimmer of hope that this time we will make another step in the right direction.