The Queen's Chair: The Health Care Bill Passed: Now What???
President Barack Obama's Health Care Bill passed. His presidency depended on it. The Democrats accomplished something. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gloating. Now what?
The President will sign the bill into law. Now the real sparks are going to fly.
I'm tired of hearing that the MAJORITY of Americans don't want this bill. I'm anxious to know what majority of Americans are representatives talking about. Where are they? Who did you talk to? The ones with health insurance? Or the ones without? I know you didn't talk to anyone who looks like me.
Republicans have made this bill a nightmare because of costs. There was a hidden message there. And it was a racist one. The haves in this country could care less about what the havenots don't have and need. The haves figured government- controlled health care would be inferior. It dodn't bother them that there were millions of Americans who don't have insurace because it's too expensive and that putting a roof over their families head takes priority. They argued that insurance providers should be able to drop coverage to someone who is sick or has a pre-existing condition; they were alright with these companies making and banking profits. They saw nothing wrong with uninsured patients getting care in emergency rooms and driving health care costs up. They also complained that they were losing out on so-called entitlements. Says who?
All I know is when someone is need of care because they have a life-threatening illness, they should get the BEST possible care. The first question shouldn't be: who is your insurance provider? That shouldn't determine how much and what type of care you have.
For the next few months, we can watch our leaders act like immature children, again. The Republicans are now calling "FOUL." They didn't win. All the backroom tricks and haggling worked. (Republicans did the same thing for years.) The President got his bill passed; he out played them. Republicans felt the same way about Medicare, but we have it. Don't we. Our leaders need to act like adults: they need to work together.
Congratulations, President Obama. Senator Kennedy would be so proud.
The President will sign the bill into law. Now the real sparks are going to fly.
I'm tired of hearing that the MAJORITY of Americans don't want this bill. I'm anxious to know what majority of Americans are representatives talking about. Where are they? Who did you talk to? The ones with health insurance? Or the ones without? I know you didn't talk to anyone who looks like me.
Republicans have made this bill a nightmare because of costs. There was a hidden message there. And it was a racist one. The haves in this country could care less about what the havenots don't have and need. The haves figured government- controlled health care would be inferior. It dodn't bother them that there were millions of Americans who don't have insurace because it's too expensive and that putting a roof over their families head takes priority. They argued that insurance providers should be able to drop coverage to someone who is sick or has a pre-existing condition; they were alright with these companies making and banking profits. They saw nothing wrong with uninsured patients getting care in emergency rooms and driving health care costs up. They also complained that they were losing out on so-called entitlements. Says who?
All I know is when someone is need of care because they have a life-threatening illness, they should get the BEST possible care. The first question shouldn't be: who is your insurance provider? That shouldn't determine how much and what type of care you have.
For the next few months, we can watch our leaders act like immature children, again. The Republicans are now calling "FOUL." They didn't win. All the backroom tricks and haggling worked. (Republicans did the same thing for years.) The President got his bill passed; he out played them. Republicans felt the same way about Medicare, but we have it. Don't we. Our leaders need to act like adults: they need to work together.
Congratulations, President Obama. Senator Kennedy would be so proud.
Hey Marsha:
Unfortunately it is empiracally true that more Americans opposed the bill than supported it--but it is close. The polling average comes out to something like 48% opposed to 43 % support.
That is not a majority and the blowhoards who say that the Health Care law subverts the willl of the people are wrong. It is almost evenly divided.
Analysts have looked at the internal polling data and concluded that strong majorities actually support many elements of the law, such as abolishing limits and pre-existing condition restrictions and extending insurance to children to age 26.
In fact, the polling shows that the elements people object to most are not even in the bill.
So, the fact that most Americans oppose the bill is because they are basing their opinion on a bogus bill. There has been so much scary stuff being thrown around that some of it stuck. But that doesn't make it true.
So I think that after people get used to the immediate benefits, they will like and more will support it.