Health Care Reform

Hello people it is 7/25/09 and as promised we are going to open up today with discussions on the Obama health care reform. There is a whole lot of this and that going back and forth over this whole issue and it's really starting to get pretty ugly out there. So today i want to know what is your take on the whole situation? Do you think this is a good idea or not? And do you think our country needs this or not? As for my point of view I think this is the greatest thing to ever happen to this country and yes we need it, we needed it about 6 years ago. For those who don't know what the reform is proposing, here it is in a nutshell. Basically Obama wants to create a free health care system for the united states of America. That's great in itself but it also does so much more.

This bill will help America in so many other ways. One of the major most important things that it does is it pulls our spiraling economy out of the nose dive that it is currently in. Many people wonder how is this so? Well it's like this the current cost of medicare the way it is today is way more than what the government can handle. This is so due to Social Security basically paying for medicare. That doesn't sound like a big deal because most of the people who are getting medicare are people over 65 right? Yeah that's true but there are about to be a whole lot more people over the age of 65 at one time in America. The baby boomers are getting older. Whats going to happen there is there isn't going to be enough Social Security funds to pay for medicare. The way that medicare is now the system is very flawed. This was supposed to be free Health care to some but people still have to pay premiums, get supplemental insurance,or pay deductibles. I probably didn't do the best job of explaining this but if you want a great explanation of all this, check out this documentary: I.O.U.S.A.

Another great thing that this bill will do is increase jobs. I will eliminate the high cost of health insurance that employers will have to pay for their employees. This will also increase the number of patients to hospitals and clinics so it should increase the need of Health Care workers and put some out of work Health Care workers to work. I also think that this will be a great help to the hospital systems. Now big county hospitals like Grady Hospital in Atlanta won't be on the verge of Bankruptcy all the time.

Lastly the out of pocket cost to Americans. There are thousands if not millions of Americans that are swamped by hospital debt and have no way of paying it off. This reform will take such a load off of the shoulders of the hard working average American. I pray that none of you reading this will ever have to go through a time that you would need to pay a large hospital bill, but for those of us who have already this is the biggest and most direct impact to people like us, the average American.

Well that's just how I feel about the situation. Please leave comments expressing your views and how you feel about it and what you want to see done with it. I thank you for all your support and for reading and don't forget to tell a friend about me

Your average Joe