There has been so much hype lately about the "Obamacare" bill that has been in circulation. I had heard some of the main points, but I didn't quit get why everyone was freaking out about it, so I did a little research. There are definitely some bad points to be made about the bill, but there are suprisingly some good points as well. One of the good is that he is going to put a ban on insurance companies from being able to deny someone because of a pre-existing medical condition. I don't believe anyone should be denied insurance just because they had a condition they couldn't do anything about. He also is going to be closing a gap called the "donut hole" which is described by Joseph Schuman as "The Medicare perscription drug benifit currently stops reimbersing patients after $2,380 is spent and doesn't resume until out of pocket spending tops $4,550." The plan will also ban drug companies from keeping gneric drugs off the market.
There is still a bad side to this bill remember. America has been made up of diferent classes since it began. This bill would eliminate all classes, as far as medical care goes at least. The people that work hard to make their money deserve to have the kind of high grade medical care that they can afford. They shouldn't be forced to have the same type of coverage that someone making a fraction of the income they make. Not only would they have to have the same coverage, they would also have to pay more. This bill will force people making over $200,00 a year to pay medicare taxes on unearned income, interest, dividends, and anuities. So they pay more but still have the same healthcare?! What kind of sense does that make? This plan would slowly turn the country into a socialist country where we are basically forced to all have this united healthcare. We are Americans and we should have the right to choose which healthcare we want. Not all be forced to have the same one.
So while there are good points about it, I still am against the Obama plan after digging deeper into it. The points that are in it that I found to be good or helpful, could easily be made into their own bills, without having to add the united healthcare into it. They are things that should just morally be illegal to do anyways.
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In response to my classmates blog My Words on the World, the entry titled Healthcare bill- good or not? I agree with her stance.
ReplyDeleteThis is not my first post concerning the health care bill but I just wanted to touch on the subject again as it is an important topic. The writer of this article agrees with me that there are both good and bad parts of the bill. For instance, there is no reason for anyone to be denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition. If you are paying for your insurance, only to be cancelled off because god forbid you actually get sick and need insurance, then that is totally unacceptable. The fact that the bill also stops drug companies from banning generic medications is also definitely a good thing. I know I always ask for the generic even though I am fully insured.
The bill has many bad sides such as forcing everyone to obtain health insurance or risk getting fined, and the fact that it is extremely costly and still doesn't cover everyone. Wealthy Americans having to pay such high taxes for something they already have and do not need from the government is also not fair. However, the deeper problem lies in the fact that Americans can keep their own health plans, but they still have to pay the taxes on the people that can't aquire it themselves. I understand that people need health care and I don't wish the problems of not having it on anyone that needs medical attention but I don't think it's fair for people that work so hard for their money to be forced to pay for someone else if they aren't dipping into the big pot of money themselves.
Like my classmate I'm not too keen on the idea of a Socialist country. We are still supposed to be an independent democracy, if you like France or Canada so much, move there, and leave America the way it was supposed to be!