New Healthcare bill has been passed

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Any thoughts on it?

I believe that if you can't afford healthcare then the government can help you out. but if you can afford it, then you can decide whether or not you want to be on a plan.

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I get free healthcare where I live, so I guess I'd be supportive of a government option.

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I'm glad it passed. This law is already active in my country and it works great! When I heard that this was such a big conflict in the US, I never understood the point.
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Erik wrote:I'm glad it passed. This law is already active in my country and it works great! When I heard that this was such a big conflict in the US, I never understood the point.
It's because Americans are stubborn. They want a choice. A lot of them don't want to be forced to have a healthcare plan.

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It's because people are afraid of change. And they've been scared to death by terms like "socialized medicine" when it is anything but.

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Well, according the the news here, Americans are affraid of the gouvernment getting involved in everything (which is something that I might fear too), making it a big brother state, but that is deffinately not the case in this law.
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It passed so far but with Brown winning the Senate seat in MA they won't have 60 votes for it to pass the merger bill.

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Well the concern wasn't just about the mandate, it's also about the cost. With the deficit as high it is and with the National debt passing $12 Trillion, a lot of people don't want more entitlements added to the budget. Plus a lot of people (including myself) think the bill isn't comprehensive enough - tort reform, defensive medicine etc. should have been addressed more thoroughly.

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That1 wrote:tort reform, defensive medicine etc. should have been addressed more thoroughly.
Defensive medicine won't get an argument from me, but tort-reform will. All the tort-reform in the world will result in maybe 2 Billion dollars not even enough to matter.

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Eternalist wrote: And they've been scared to death by terms like "socialized medicine" when it is anything but.
No, it is very much so socialism. If health care is free or included in taxes, why would anyone pay more for a better health plan? Sooner or later people will lose there jobs and Americans will have only one health care option, which is socialism.

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