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What Is Good About The New Health Care Bill?

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 0:45
This news item was posted in Medical Information category and has 8 Comments so far.

I can only think of the bad: That there will be fewer doctors in medicine because of a drastic paycut, medical records being sent down to washington so the government can decide your treatment, rise in the taxes of the hardworking people, etc.
All I have heard is that this health care reform bill will be terrible for my generation.
Anything good? I’m really interested, maybe I don’t fully understand because I’m just 15.

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8 Responses to “What Is Good About The New Health Care Bill?”

  1. Capitalist and proud of it said on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 7:18

    Dear Taylor:
    There is nothing wrong with America’s healthcare system. It’s the best in the world. Ask anyone who has survived cancer, heart disease, etc.
    The so-called reform that our President it trying to ram through the government will destroy that great system and we cannot allow it.
    Think about this way – if the government takes over healthcare, a bunch of govt. pinheads will decide if your grandparents, parents or you live or die. Do you want that?

  2. knightus said on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 11:27

    @DAR -
    Firstly the US is not going to impliment a national health care system, the proposed new system will be compulsory private sector health insurance with hospitals still remaining in the private sector.
    Secondly if any system is prone to rationing it is the US System, where Health Insurance Companies employ whole departments in order to go through small print and medical histories in order to deny treatments. In fact the more money they save by finding ways to deny treatments the greater the financial incentives.
    Whilst no health system is perfect, the NHS covers the entire population including the poor and most vunerable, and if you so require there is also a private health sector.http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/health…http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/o…http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/a…
    The British NHS covers the elderly and they do have access to decent levels of care, indeed the new NHS Constitution clearly states that all patients should be treated equally no matter what age.http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/aboutnhs/Do…
    What is more, the new UK Equality Bill will make it illegal to discriminate against the old in terms of access to NHS Treatments and other such discrimination.http://www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_bi…

  3. Anonymous said on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 16:00

    You are 15 and you don’t understand what is wrong with our CURRENT health insurance system and why it needs change.
    If you lose your job – you lose your health insurance.
    If you have something wrong with you (pre-existing condition) you cannot get coverage.
    If you have had cancer – you cannot get coverage.
    It is almost impossible to find affordable coverage if you are not employed.
    At my work we have had double digit increases in our health insurance premiums for the last 12 years. This year (and other years in the past) we didn’t get raises because the health insurance ate up our raise.
    There is no way all the medical records can be sent to Washington for some guy to decide treatment. That isn’t even feasible. That part is propaganda. And, right now, HMOs decide what care is covered and what is not.
    Taxes will continue to rise to pay for ER care for the uninsured anyway – they have no insurance, so they go to the ER where they get “free” (government paid) health care.

  4. PJ said on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 18:37

    The good thing is that if you have private insurance, you get to keep it. However, if you fail to have the proper paperwork in order, you will lose the ability to keep your private health care.
    Wait a minute…..that doesn’t make any sense….oh yeah, this is going through CONgress. Nothing they do makes sense anymore.

  5. dapo0077 said on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 21:11

    No, they are paying for covering tens of millions more people 2/3 by cutting medicare which people have paid into all their lives. The only way to do that is to ration what care people receive. They are fudging exactly how to do that but are setting up a committee as part of the program to say what are ‘reasonable’ uses of funds. This is how that works in England where they have national health care:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12469297…

  6. DAR said on Thursday, November 12, 2009, 1:55

    Nothing. Just a way to bankrupt most of America.

  7. Buck O'Fama said on Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:25

    that it is likely to fail

  8. Anonymous said on Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:32

    us illegals get it free

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