If implemented in its current form, the bill will allow 32 million more Americans to be able to afford health insurance, granting 95 percent of our citizenry health coverage.
It’s not perfect, but it’s an admirable start.
The legislation also makes way for children to stay on their parents’ insurance policies until age 26–good news for students like us.
By 2014, insurance companies will no longer to be able to bar individuals from receiving insurance due to pre-exisiting medical conditions.
Being denied coverage for having illnesses as simple as asthma is an abhorrent practice, and we’re happy to see the government helping to bring an end to it.
With more citizens able to afford insurance, there will no doubt be an increase in the amount of patients seeking medical attention, as the poor and forgotten are finally able to come out of
the shadows and seek treatment. Opponents of this bill worry that
doctor’s offices will be overflowing with sick poor people, but why is that a bad thing?
If people are able to seek medical attention for ailments before they become more serious medical issues, it will help to lessen costly treatments and hospital stays further down the line.
An ounce of preventative care is worth thousands of dollars in insurance premiums and fees down the road.
Ultimately, we are judged as a society by how we treat the members of our nation who are the lesser-thans, the have-nots.
Our government stepping up to help aid its citizens is a just quest.
This bill is a promise to generations of future Americans that our government is invested in its citizens’ health and well being.
It harkens the start of an era where each and every American can truly enjoy the benefits of good health.
We are slouching towards equality, knowing a cause seeking to improve the lives of all Americans shall never fail.
(I guess it's easier to sit back and express an opinion than it is to actually discuss and defend an opinion! Maybe some of your readers will come to your rescue...)
Fellow readers, take note! This is what happens when a viewpoint is based on "feelings", not facts.
You shouldn't act so surprised that the bill allows kids to stay on their parent's insurance till 26. Most insurance companies in Alabama already had that. That's the way it is on my BC / BS of Alabama.
If you don't have insurance, you will be fined. How is that fair, Plainsman?
Why are we made responsible for other Americans who CHOOSE not to take care of themselves?
So-called helping 32 million people will make anyone feel warm and fuzzy inside. Thirty-two million more people for the already overworked doctors and nurses to care for. Sounds great to me.
Keep on drinking that Kool-Aid, Plainsman.
Where does the federal government get the power to force me into a contract with another private party?
Why would I buy health insurance when it is cheaper to pay the penalty and then buy it when I "need" it, since I can't be denied? Won't this drive insurance companies out of business?
Why not extend this to car insurance? That way, I can have the wreck, then buy insurance to get it fixed!
How is forcibly taking money from a citizen who earned it and giving it to another considered "equality?"
Was Medicare so bad that it could not have been adjusted to accommodate the poor? If so, why didn't Medicare get abolished? We'll just keep it and "fixing it" will save us enough money to pay for an entirely new program?
The sad thing is, our politicians know that the majority of Americans will be too busy with American Idol next election day to worry about this. In fact, they'll bury how bad things are as a result of the legislation and just play repeats of Kelly Clarkson in the doctors waiting rooms. That'll keep you happy...