US Health Care System-please explain

[elodie21]

I started off reading on the Tea Party and ended up going back in history to the time of Reagan and present day heath care politics in the US. I read the arguments people have against the two Bills passed in 2010 by the Obama administration but here's the thing, what exactly is so bad about them

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[elodie21]

Thanks :) Thats pretty much what I could make out and so was confused as to the whole anti-bill sentiments I was reading about. A lot of nay sayers but I couldn't really make out the WHY part. I agree with your point 2, plus I feel there will be free-loaders but also those who have genuine issues and need that little bit of coverage. Not everyone can be a freeloader I guess. Its not that bad a thing to help another! I agree with you!

I read Paul Krugman's column (he really explains thing wonderfully) and he advocates increased government spending to create jobs and infuse money in the system which he says is the only thing to help the recession. Though in this case I don't think new jobs per se will be created. However, health is a prerogative and basic right, not really something the government can give when it is economically viable. Though I can see where the argument comes from, right now Obama could have first focused on the economy and once things were stable, pushed in the health care reforms without having to compromise (as these are watered down versions of his original plans).