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Monday, November 23, 2009

Heath Care Reform: Have Your Say

Now that you've read what our panel thought on this subject, have your say by leaving a comment.

4 comments:

  1. AmandaNovember 23, 2009

    I am a Native American and I agree with Ms. Smith's observations. Corporate greed is the center of this country and until that is curbed the American people will never come first to those we elect.

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  2. Shaun HautlyNovember 23, 2009

    I feel like I don't really know much about health-care. When I heard that it passed in the house, I went to CNN looking for what that meant to me. After finding nothing, I was all over the internet looking for a summary of the bill and could find nothing. I'm not ignorant enough to say that this doesn't affect me, but I'm not quite as worked up about it as other poorly informed citizens seem to be. I watch Fox News for fun sometimes, and CNN as well, but it just seems like this is fighting about "Under God" being in the Pledge of Allegiance. People will pick sides, stick to them, and never really bother to understand each other.

    I'm for universal health care. Again, I'm not even sure what it means for me on a day to day level, but I'm sure there are less fortunate people out there who will benefit in some big ways. I know personally I just paid a few thousand dollars for xrays that I'd love to have back. My friend bought a temporary plan to wait for his new job's insurance to kick in after 90 days. The company fell on some hard times, and now his short term is up and the company is refusing to provide. The transfer of insurance or renewal of the short term will make all of his current conditions into pre-existing conditions. The new bill will help force his employer to provide the coverage they promised and on which he based his decisions.
    I watched a 20 minute video of Obama describing the health-care changes to small business owners. I did this so I could brace myself for whatever changes I may have to prepare as a small business owner, myself. Turns out, not a lot changes. A lot of people were pretty scared of crazy scenarios. Obama insisted that if we're happy with our plans, we can keep things just the way they are. They may even be a little cheaper.

    All I know for sure is that I'm going to wake up tomorrow, and the sun is still going to shine. Canada didn't disintegrate and neither will we. Besides if we don't like it, we can always go back to the old system. There's no law preventing that is there? Is there a law against trying things? I'll write one. With a republican twist. They need it right now.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 23, 2009

    Its not Monopoly money people! Who is going to PAY for this?

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  4. Art HastingsDecember 05, 2009

    You're not paying attention, Anonymous -- or only listening to conservative demogogues. We're paying a helluva lot more for health care NOW than we should be, and much of it's going into marketing drugs we don't need, legal battles and expensive settlements over medical screwups and drugs that were insufficiently tested or misused, the humongous salaries of insurance company executives (thousands of whom make a lot more than the President of the United States for doing, I would imagine, a lot less), and the construction of those massive towers that insurance companies inhabit in every large American city. (I think of them as modern cathedrals: built from the pennies, fears, and hopes of the little people just as older cathedrals were.) That money could be going more directly for health care, and SHOULD be.

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