Yes, I asked a friend in the nursing field, and she is afraid it will over work doctors and nurses and cause them to retire early. Such is there prerogative in free society. She’s afraid it will hurt care for everyone and do little to improve the situation for those who are currently uninsured. Keyword is afraid.
That’s only one opinion, I’m sure if you had asked more they you would have found a few in favor and far more opposed.
runningdude;6512149:
There may be growing pains, but it is unacceptable to do nothing improve access for 30-50 million of the most voiceless and defenseless of the nation. A friend of mine ended up on streets once and almost died of a simple leg infection. She was living in the richest city in the world at the time.
No one in America is voiceless, your voice is your vote, right to assemble, petition and free speech. Also how many of those “defenseless” people are like my wife (girlfriend at the time) a year ago who didn’t buy insurance because she didn’t need it being young, healthy and short on money wanted to put it toward college. Had there been a greater concern she would have gotten a job and gotten healthcare or in her financial situation probably would have been eligible for MEDICAID. If 30 million were in that much need where was MEDICAID, that’s a government program for the poor is it not?
Growing pains. Things don’t change over night. Look how long it took to implement workplace safety standards - at least a century. We need to start now to improve life for future generations.
Half of the argument made by politicians was the amount of people dying in the streets. If there are these, “growing pains”, why is it that this whole system doesn’t start until after the next election yet we had to pass this before Easter.
And seniors who can’t afford prescriptions here go to Canada for lower prices. It works both ways. If anything, we should be limiting care to foreigners to improve access and availability to Americans.
Yet we cut more money from MEDICARE to pay for this debacle.
Tanning booths possibly contribute to skin cancer, raising health care by absorbing capacity away from treatable diseases.
I agree with you here, the sun is free and it seems that we are moving more toward worshiping our bodies when we are too focused on external appearance.
Your point. Government supposed to protect its citizens. Health insurance offers protection from physical and financial ruin if you get sick or injured. I cracked a vertebrae in my neck by fainting - the first time I ever fainted. Fortunately it is healing properly, but even the most careful can get injured through no fault of their own.
Correction, the government is supposed to protect your freedoms not create rights because society has changed. Why do you think the Catholic Church has survived for 2000 years, my guess is because it didn’t change with society.
It is a myth that lawsuits are the primary reason for high health care costs. The American medical ***. admitted that malpractice insurance is less then 1% of all business expenses born by doctors. If I doctor ruins your life by making a mistake, why shouldn’t you be compensated?
Understanding the immoral society that we live in shows that too many are out for money and looking for somebody else to blame for their problems. It wasn’t that long ago that a lady sued McDonald’s for spilling coffee in her lap.
