I'm for this bill, and I knew it would be coming and this was a major reason I supported Obama. This country is ~ half and half Republican vs Democrat, and for some reason the Republicans are so ****ing scared of anything resembling communism or socialism it's sickening. But then you look at the fact that most republicans are racist, uneducated, backwoods ****tards and you realize why it's the case.
I'm all for a strong centralized government. I'd rather see the local governments begin losing power, because all they're doing is wasting money here and there, and certain states are in massive deficits and eating the profits from the states that are not.
This bill will help lower the overall cost of health care in America. The United States government will become a Health Care Provider, the same as any other Health Insurer in the nation that currently overcharges and gouges people, lowering the overall income a family is able to have and hurting companies. I don't see why it's such an issue that, basically, the US government is trying to enter the private market sector of business.
Hell they own a huge portion of GM now. Why is that? Because no one would invest money into the would-be dead company besides the US Government.
Obama's Health Care will not impact the private sector, it will, however, force private companies to lower their rates to be actually affordable. I'm sure this also has something to do with the corporations that own and control hospitals, as well, since if you end up getting a hospital bill that insurance doesn't cover (or you don't have any) then you're more than likely being billed more than they would've billed your insurance company.
And while you cannot be refused medical treatment under any circumstances, you can be completely financially ruined for the rest of your life as a result of a severe and life-threatening illness.
Personally? I worked a full time job for 40-50 hours a week and made 26,000 a year doing it. That wasn't enough for me to even get my own place on, much less buy health insurance (which, when I got a quote, was $300/mo). That's the median income for a LOT of workers who don't have a college education. I'm also white and "middle class", which means I don't qualify for a free college education, yet I cannot afford to pay for it myself.
Instead just to get ahead I'm now working for $500-600 a month and digging massive holes of debt to get my education so I CAN make it into a job field that will pay me more than $26 grand/year. Even though I was in a job field that was one of the hardest and most demanding, and that 9 out of 10 people or more would completely sink if they were attempting to do.
Where's that leave me if I get sick with a severe illness? I can't afford the $250/mo it costs me to own a car, the $60 a month it costs me in gas for travel, the law-required car insurance I have to have for $200/mo, the insane prices food costs, which ranges upwards of $200/mo. (That's ~ 6 dollars a day. I'd really like to see someone live on less than $150/mo on food) Where am I supposed to shit $300/mo for health insurance on top of that?
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