We need Healthcare Reform.
The hundreds of Billions, the Trillions of dollars we (the taxpayers) have to pay for the uninsured is ridiculous and needs to be fixed. The Government has done nothing to truly fight our country’s health problems. Obamacare was a bold step in the right direction, but it is not the healthcare reform we need to get where we must be as a country.
Many parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act I commend. Forcing insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and not allowing them to charge women unfairly more than men thus equalizing healthcare costs for men and women and items like the extension of healthcare for young adults to stay on their parents insurance up to age 26.
There are also parts of the bill that I do not agree with.
The big debate seems to be over the mandate, allowing the government to tax individuals who do not have insurance as a penalty.
I don't like it and think we should get rid of these mandates, including Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. You can only take out what you pay in.
But I also see how some people won't ever do it for themselves unless we force them. For those who don’t have insurance and want to pass their healthcare bills on to the rest of us citizens, I have no problem with a tax penalty for them.
I am more concerned at what kind of precedent this sets and what else the Federal Government will force us to do.
On a Side Note: If you’re hopeful that Mitt Romney will follow through with his promise to “Repeal Obamacare if elected,” a promise that he has stated repeatedly, you’ll have to keep dreaming. The reality is that he has no power as President to repeal Obamacare (unless he starts using Executive Privilege like Obama…how ironic). Laws get repealed the same way they are created. It must be presented, go through committee and have majority vote approval from both the House and the Senate before the President can sign it into law. So when Romney says he is going to repeal Obamacare it is about as ridiculous as when Newt Gingrich promised $2.50 a gallon gasoline if elected President.
But the true crime of the Feds is not this Obamacare bill or upholding it in the Supreme Court…no, the real issue is what they aren’t doing behind closed doors.
The Government could turn our country’s obesity epidemic around, cut the high costs of healthcare to near nothing and get rid of this giant tax burden that has become the worst kind of welfare falling on other citizens to pay for.
Get rid of the farm subsidies.
If an apple costs more than a bag of cheetoes, which do you think a family will choose? The reason Happy meals cost a buck and unhealthy food is so cheap is because of the farm subsidies the government hands out.
If they got rid of farm subsidies (or at least the vast majority that are wasteful) the playing field would be leveled and farmers would once again be encouraged to grow more than just corn and soy. Imagine if it was like it was ‘back in the day’ with farmers growing beans, broccoli, fruits and vegetables, along with the corn and soy!
Right now we don’t even produce enough fruits and veggies to meet the daily recommended amount set by the Government. We import most of the food from other countries too, which makes it less healthy and less tasty.
That’s just one simple thing they could do to really have an impact on healthcare. Start pushing doctors to advise vitamins and healthy eating. Hell, in
Lets support Nutritionists instead of just feeding Pharmaceutical profits, make it profitable for farmers to grow varities of food and Americans will get healthier so we don’t need to depend on Government healthcare in the first place!
I’m all for Universal Healthcare, but I am sick (pun intended) of the Government not fixing the problems they themselves are creating.
