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Reactions to the Historic Healthcare Reform

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March 23, 2010 RSS Feed Print
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The true "vindication" of Obama and his healthcare plan will come with the mid-term elections in November ["House Vote to Pass Healthcare Vindicates Obama's Leadership," usnews.com]. If the Democrats' losses are minimal, then Obama is vindicated. If the Democrats' losses are significant, it will be a repudiation of Obama and his healthcare. A lot can change between now and then. I wonder how much my insurance premiums will go up next year to cover the 26-year-old children of my fellow policy holders or how many without insurance for their children with pre-existing conditions will join my plan (I think this number is small). I won't see any of these effects or understand how my taxes will be affected until after the election. So my votes this fall will be based more on "projected" data than actual data. Just like the CBO scoring.

Comment by Bob of TX

I just want to put out there that as an American, I am proud that our president has made history and affirmed the ideals and principles of our great nation with this imperfect yet, impressive legislative achievement. I know that others believe that they alone speak for the country. I welcome their opinion respectfully, but I want to point out that they don't represent all of us.

Comment by Jonathan of CA 

The GOP and the associated tea parties have proven that they only care about one thing: money. They don't care about poor people or sick children. They don't care about their fellow Americans. They only care about reducing their tax bill, and they don't care who it hurts. If a bill was introduced that would outlaw abortion, flag burning, and gay marriage but raise their taxes 1 percent, they would vote against it.

Comment by Sam of TX 

President Obama's leadership has just divided this country deeper than the Iraq War could have ever done, even if it would have lasted 100 years. Pray for our president, our leaders, and wisdom for the American people.

Comment by David of ID 

"That's what change looks like!" Those were the words the president used to describe the health insurance reform bill. How eye opening! Indeed, in a representative democracy like ours, change, even change for the better, does not come easily. How wonderful it is to have a president who is visionary yet practical, eloquent yet focused, one who, when convinced, will adopt views he was previously against, such as escalating the war in Afghanistan, does what has to be done even if he personally hates it, such as the AIG and GM bailouts, and does the right thing even if it's not popular, such as the health insurance reform. My hat's off to you, Mr. President.

Comment by Bruce of CO 

I have a good job and good health insurance. This bill makes me want to drop my health insurance and pay cash from now on just because I can't stand the idea that I have no choice but to buy insurance. The idea that folks who can afford to pay their medical bills are forced to buy insurance strikes me as plainly un-American. In any case, the mandate is so plainly unconstitutional that it likely will be struck down by this or a future Supreme Court. It is inevitable that the Supreme Court will take up the question. Many appeals are planned.

Comment by Dan of MD 

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Pyramid schemes, also called Ponzi schemes, only 'work' when you have more people that pay into them for a number of years than get paid back.

That's currently the case with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The social benefits of such are great, but after many years we still don't know how to pay for them -- besides going deeper into debt, which increasingly strangles economic growth, and increasingly passing the buck to future generations, to strangle their future economic growth.

Does anyone want to assert that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are operating in the black? No. Yet on top of that Obama would have us lob on another pyramid scheme, Obamacare, whereby an increased number of people paying into the insurance system simultaneously are going to be receiving insurance benefits at any time.

More people with insurance won't stop rising medical costs. The current case with Massachusetts has proven that. To the real-life contrary the already-rising costs of medical/dental procedures and insurance premiums there have been accelerated.

If you can't see this point about the existing pyramid schemes and the new one under Obamacare, either you don't want to or you're like those who somehow managed to get a college degree but not an education.

The problem we ultimately have is one involving the lack of problem-solving creativity when it comes to financing health care in the American Dream. Rather than admit to that -- and demand new work on that in bipartisan earnest -- many would rather instead fall back, eagerly, upon the tried-but-proven-untrue, as their expression of a life of continuing but not-so-quiet-anymore desperation. This is cheerlead by President Obama, who along with the retail democrats and republicans, still gets his cut of the action regardless: his livelihood. They all are like used-car salesmen who get their commissions even if they sell clunkers.

Those that still support Obamacare at this late date are like those who want to buy a car, any car, even if it is a lemon as detailed in a Carfax report. To them an unrepairable car up on concrete blocks in the driveway is good enough, as they can sit in it and pretend it's going somewhere.

dom youngross of OH 11:05PM March 23, 2010

"Taxes pay for government and are we saying that small government requiring little or no taxes is good?" To be brief yes. If you have a college education you need to go back and demand a refund. The Nation ia already bankrupt to the tune of 65 trillion dollars, that we know about. As the Federal Reserve has not been audited in over 50 years how bad things are is not apparent, but it will be. Look to Greece and the austerity program and we will be there soon. When someone has to start cutting these entitlements it will shred the fabric of our society. Just a matter of time.

Remember, you can take a progressive to logic but you cannot make them think.

November Retribution of CA 9:18PM March 23, 2010

@slackercare:

eh, could be worse. "MORNING ZOO DJ-care" is where hard-working americans just get sick and die. unless you're a wingnut DJ with pill addition, in which you're allowed to engage in felonious doctor shopping.

"MORNING ZOO DJ-care", brought to you by pudgy undereducated radio bimbos who fuel their enormous egos with drugs/alcohol, and never worked an honest day in their lives.

heartlandboy of OH 7:43PM March 23, 2010

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