Thursday, December 30, 2010
Universal Health Care
Ever since I can remember and even more so since President Obama has been elected, Universal Health Care has been a big ticket item. It dates back all they way to the 1965 when President Johnson enacted Medicaid, up to recently when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed in March of 2010. People for the health care reform state that even if you are unable to get health insurance or are currently uninsured you are able to get health insurance at an affordable price. While people on the other side, primarily the Tea Party Activist, state that universal health care is unconstitutional and would give the government too much power. They also state that there will be a rise in taxes and would cause an unnecessary rise in premiums. What ever side you are on there are many debates that still continue to this day that need to be resolved before this policy takes full effect
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There are a lot of fascinating arguments on this topic Matt. The biggest one is the freedoms that will be taken away once we go to a single payer system. Many argue that we will be given the choice to have Obama care or not to have Obama care but this is how I see it:
ReplyDeleteObama care goes into effect. Everyone is mandated by the gov’t. to hold insurance. Employers will be mandated that they cannot alter one’s coverage for pre-existing conditions, etc. Once Obama is in full force, many employers may find it cheaper to opt out of offering private insurance to their employees due to the rising costs but instead offer cash for their employees to participate in Obama care. Once this cycle starts, private care will be less and less which will make it more expensive and too hard to manage for small business. Then the remaining small business will not have a choice but to make their employees use Obama care due to affordability. Soon after, the U.S. will be on a SINGLE payer system. Is that what we really want? This is a tough one. I agree that we need change and that insurance companies should not have the power to let people die, but Canada’s single payer system is hurting. The U.S. prides itself in medical research. Once we are in a single payer system, where will the money come from to remain a top notch medical society? I am concerned.
Sorry for the delay responding back, I’ve been out with pneumonia since the start of class and have had little access to a computer. I agree with the fact the government is slowly trying to take over the health care system. Also, in some ways Obama have said that private insurance cost will rise over the next few years because of his healthcare plan. I feel that you are right the governments is going to make it hard for businesses to survive without their healthcare plan causing businesses to cave to the socialist government we are becoming. What I wish people would realize is that this is just their first attempts to try to make it so that the American people relay on the government. It will start with healthcare, then it will go to the type of cars we can buy, how much me can make etc till our constitution means nothing. The American Dream is being stripped away from us because the government is trying to run our lives the way they want us to live. Our founding fathers feared that one day that one branch of government would become more powerful than another so they made the checks and balances system. Unfortunately, dating back before the Obama years the Presidents have either found loop holes or made loop holes that make it better for them and completing their agenda. Instead of the government pointing us in the right direction and letting us go free like they should be doing, they feel the need to coach us as we continue on. As a result we are unable to learn by ourselves and when the economy crashed instead of the people trying to find their own solution and letting the businesses that should fail go, the government steps in causing us to become more reliant and unable to fix things on our own.
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