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? asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 1 decade ago

What do you think about the Healthcare Bill?

Tell me weather you like it and why you think it is a good idea or bad.

I personally don't support it but I'd like to know other people's reasons for liking or disliking it.

Update:

While Emma brings up some good points I have to disagree on the fact that a mother who has three jobs to support her own kids is as much obliged to support someone else as a person with more money. She can barely make it with three jobs, while the richer one can spare the money and not have all the expensive new toys.

Thanks also Emma for the copy of the Bills.

From a 17 yr old Politically active girl

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  • Ella
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    I don't support it.

    My employer deducts $110 a month to cover my medical, dental, and vision.

    With Obama's plan, I would continue to pay that PLUS a tax increase of 60% to cover others.

    I don't have any dependents that I can claim on my tax returns, so why should I pay for random individuals health care?

    Plus there are thousands that are employed but are too cheap to get health insurance.

    I feel if a person is employed, it should be mandatory that they have health insurance.

    Only the unemployed, elderly, and those on disability should have some form of Medicare or Medicaid.

    Welfare rats that are able bodied to work, but refuse to do so, should be required to take monthly drug tests for them to get their monthly checks and medicare.

  • 1 decade ago

    I support it.

    I find it disgusting how people don't care about their underprivileged counterparts. Why are people with enough money to pay for health care so much better than the single mom, who works three jobs, living in the projects? And why would a government "for the people," in the words of honest Abe, want to form "death panels?" And why is a plan to raise the American standard of living a "Nazi policy" or "downright evil?" I thought that Americans would want to make America a better place. Personally, I think that when the founding fathers promised Americans the right to life, the life they implied was a realitivly healthy one.

    What also disgusts me is how people think that the government is taking over. If you look at the actual bills in the House and Senate (there is a link on CNN.com where you can view the actual bills) you would notice that there is a section that addresses NOT CHANGING plans that Americans already have; the government just wants to take care of the poor and underprivileged. Is that taking over America, or just looking out for it?

    And lastly, some people have no faith that a plan like the ones being proposed will work at all. Do they really think that our government is too stupid to have evey aspect of a potential law examined by business, medical, political scientists, and economic experts? I think that if I can figure that out, the government can.

    Here are the links to view the actual bills from CNN.com

    House: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/14/hou...

    Senate: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/14/sen...

    Source(s): --A politically active 16 year old
  • 1 decade ago

    If America is going to continue to permit insurance companies to operate and profit by killing people, then premiums will rise until in 15 years they will be more than the medium income. But doing nothing is better than a bill that is nothing but a windfall for insurance companies that transfers wealth from the poor directly to the rich in a new tax, I mean, premium for mandated insurance coverage.`

  • 1 decade ago

    I like the health care plan, maybe not whats out there now, but some public option where all americans are covered, and I think it would be a great idea to name it after Senator Ted Kennedy, this it what he would have wanted.

  • 1 decade ago

    HR 2300 is 1,017 pages of not just giving the poor Health Care. You will be required to carry Health Care, they will debit your account. Tell you how many children your allowed to have, with social workers visiting your family. They will determine to pull the plug instead of the family. Notice that Talk Radio has read the Bill and inform us what's in it, and the News Media tells us it's misinformation, but they don't tell you what's in it.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Despite Nancy Pelosi's ugly attempt to push the bill "in Ted Kennedy's memory", it looks like a stiff to me. Not every Democrat in Congress is as politically suicidal as she.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hate it...

    President is using this bill to destroy our capitalist principles in order to redistribute the wealth of our country to the blacks. He is a racist, black activist, with a goal of changing America into a communist state.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hate it....the Constitution does not give the president or congress authority in this area.

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