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Health Care Reform
It appears that today might be the end of a very long road to health care reform. There's been a lot of debate on the subject really leading back before the election. The mainstream sounds like an echo chamber, so I'm hoping you guys have better insight. Will this bill do what the administration claims to do, or is it as bad for the future of America as Fox says?
I fail to see the difference... you are accomplishing the same thing in a different way: you are making everyone else pay for preexisting conditions.
I'm not saying I don't have sympathy for people; I'm not saying they shouldn't be helped; people who are supporting this system need to stop the disingenuous rhetoric that those opposed to "obamacare" want people to die in the streets with no help. It's disgusting.
Ultimately, while I think the government can do things to make insurance more affordable for everyone, I also believe:
1. the government should NOT be in the business of insuring people.
2. it is unconstitutional to REQUIRE everyone buy health insurance.
3. government regulations are part of the reason costs are so high to begin with.
4. there is no health care "crisis" in the U.S.; our health care is second to NONE. You can cherry pick statistics all you want, but more people come TO the U.S. for life saving surgery than anywhere else for a reason, and statistics don't show the whole picture (including diversity of population, lifestyle choices, and the fact that many of the statistics are not consistently generated country to country).
5. the middle class will bear the burden of this legislation, not the "evil, greedy" rich people.
6. people need to stop pretending their Euro-socialist healthcare is "free." It's disingenuous AT BEST.
Stupid, sexy Flanders.