Health Care Reform: Are There Any Good Reasons To Keep It
By Ashley Jones on September 6, 2010, 6:45 am Posted in Finance NewsOn March 23rd, 2010 President Obama signed in to law H.R.3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite nationwide protests and polls showing that the American people are overwhelmingly against the legislation, the Democrats hailed this as a great victory.
What Most People Don’t Know
What a most advocates for health care reform did not make clear to the American public is that the benefits, such as they may be, of the health care reform bill would not begin until 2014. The payment for these services, however, were to be levied right away in the form of higher taxes and even greater deficit spending. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted that the health care reform will cost at least 115 billion more in spending than was originally thought and this is only in discretionary spending. The total cost is still undetermined despite democrat claims that it will be paid for by ‘savings’ in other areas. Some of these areas are a reduction in Medicare payments to doctors.
Any Reason To Keep It?
The health care reform bill was unpopular from the start with an American public already reeling from the trillion dollar TARP bailouts to Wall Street and US auto makers. Since the bill was signed in to law this unpopularity has only increased and this attitude crosses all political lines, you are just as likely to find a democrat who opposes the reform as you are a republican.
The health care reform law has become poison to democrats running for reelection in the upcoming mid-term contests with democrats running full speed away from any connection to Obama’s agenda.
The only thing the health care reform law will do in the short term is raise taxes for working Americans who are already suffering through a persistent recession and record unemployment.
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This is a total farce. I dont agree at all. Healthcare reform is needed and Obama had the balls to do something about it. All people are doing is feeding off of fear. Deficit spending please come up with another reason. Health care should be a right of all Americans. Ask the people who dont have it who are sick and need care but are turned away. Funny the ones challenging it are the superio aristocrats who dug this country into the state it is in today.
You honestly think that health care reform is necessary… you are out of your mind!!!! The United States has some of the best health care systems in the world, why else would Canadians be willing to spend their own money for our health care .when they are treated for FREE anywhere Honestly look in a parking lot at a hospital near the border and you will see that. Another thing no one in the United States is refused treatment ever, as it is against the law. In the ER they dont check your insurance until after you have been treated. So yes you will have to pay for treatment but you would end up paying for it no matter what as its either going to come out of our taxes or your pocket. Cant everyone see that health care reform will increase our taxes and lower our quality of care. I would personally rather pay out of pocket for great health care then pay out in taxes for inferior care.
i agree with kathleen. if you are sick and need attention and can’t afford it, medicaid will pay the bill. ever go into a ER in the night; it’s full of welfare and medicaid people with the sniffles, wasting your tax dollars and you are stupid enough to want to lower your own standards so they can fraud you even more.(jane). i have worked hard for what i’ve got and i’m not going to lay down and give it to someone who does nothing but leach off of the wsystem already. Less govt., less spending.