This law does not "give away" health insurance. It mandates you BUY it, that's right BUY it. You will pay for insurance or pay a tax to the government for not getting it. Everyone who doesn't have insurance now will have to pay one or the other. Nothing in it gives you fee insurance or healthcare. Also, the fine is much less then insurance will cost, which means many who don't have insurance still won't buy it. Most of those "positives" you listed could be made law WITHOUT most of the other stuff in this law. Lastly, the single biggest reason health care costs int he country are so high is because healthcare provider must over charge private insurance companies for services to make up for the losses they suffer by treating medicare patients. That's right, medicare pays such a low amount to providers that they have to jack up what the "normal and customary charges" would be to recoup that. The best way to decrease costs would be if the government actually paid providers enough!
Kelly
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Amen! I have been on lists for special needs kids for over a decade. There are parents from all over the world on these lists. The stories from families in the UK and other countries that have this kind of system give me nightmares. Even if you end up with some kind of government insurance God help you finding a doctor and hope you live to make the appointment. The UK just released a study on how many people die every year just waiting for care or denied care. And if you say oh we don't want to have something like that, you haven't read the details of the bill. I pray we all get the care we need.
Nedra
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