POLL: Healthcare Vote Yes or No, page 1

POLL: Healthcare Vote Yes or No


I would like to get an idea, since I have little trust for mainstream media polls, that do you all want this new healthcare reform to pass, or are you against this healthcare bill. This healthcare poll is very simple, you only need to vote YES or NO. I will keep track of the vote count and continue to post the results.

I have spent hours listen to both sides of the Healthcare bill debate on C-SPAN and I have heard some good arguments by the Democrats and Republicans parties.

I have heard everything from:
Governments take over.
That we will lose more freedoms to choose our doctors.
That passing this healthcare will bankrupt this economy.
That passing this Healthcare will create more job lost.
That passing this Healthcare will not allow small business to have affordable health insurance, for their employees.
That passing this Healthcare will add to our National deficit.
That passing this Healthcare will add more taxation to the already over tax population.
That passing this Healthcare will cause me to lose the good insurance that I already have.

Now some good things about this healthcare bill are:

What the New Health Care Legislation Will Mean to Consumers’ Wallets

Six months after the legislation is enacted, many plans would be prohibited from placing lifetime limits on medical coverage, and they could not retroactively cancel policies on people who fall ill. Children with pre-existing conditions could not be denied coverage.
And dependent children up to age 26 would be eligible for coverage under their parents’ plans — instead of the current state-by-state rules that often cut off coverage for children at 18 or 19.
And within three months of the law’s taking effect, people who have been locked out of the insurance market because of a pre-existing condition would be eligible for subsidized coverage through a new high-risk insurance program.

www.nytimes.com...


All insurances companies will be force to cover “pre-existing condition.”
Insurances companies will no longer be able to drop your coverage once they find out your sick.
Women will no longer be discriminated against by the healthcare system.
Insurance will be affordable for everyone.
Passing this bill will not bankrupt this country.
Poor people will be able to have health insurance.
Health insurances will not be for the privilege and wealthy but for all.
Children can stay on their parents existing policy to the age of 26.
Allowing the poor to having health insurances will catch more illness earlier on. Meaning it will be cheaper to catch dieses early on and cheaper to treat these dieses than catching it to late, this will save billion of dollars in the Healthcare industries in long-term care and treatments.


Here is my view on this bill. The healthcare system we have now is not working and I think we all can agree on this. The healthcare system is all about profits and sacrificing necessary services needed by millions of Americans to make those profits. Our current healthcare system puts money before people. The insurance companies’ are in business to make money off you, as long as you do not get sick.

How Do Insurance Companies Make Money?

www.thetruthaboutinsurance.com...


I watched in horror a dear friend go through living hell with doctors trying to get treatment for his pre-existing condition. I watched this wonderful human being suffer at the hands of the greedy corporate insurances companies all denying him any health care coverage. I watched this wonderful man become so ill, because he could not get any proper medical treatments. I watched him lose his own business, because he became too ill to work. If he only had the proper medical treatment, he would be doing much better today. Instead he ended up completely disable because of the lack of care from the healthcare system. The health care system we currently have ignored his medical needs, I watched him pay out of pocket expenses that were in the thousands of dollars until they stripped him of everything he owned. Now he has nothing, however because he is on disability he now can be seen by any doctor that accepts Medicaid and Medicare, and now he is grateful for that. I watched this man lose everything, because insurance companies and healthcare are too greedy.

I agree it is good to make profits in running any business however, when the greed gets out of control and big business put profits before peoples healthcare basic needs and there is no accountability, then what do you have?








[edit on 21-3-2010 by impressme]

reply to post by Kratos1220

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the reason is there needs to be a large pool of young healthy people to pay for the old sick people. That simple. It sucks when you are young cause you get very little out of it. It sucks if you get killed suddenly and definitively. Good if you get in a car wreck and are severly injured and live for a long time. Good if you live to old age and need med's to keep the ticker tickin'

reply to post by impressme

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NO

Ultimately I don't think it matters because it will be determined that it is unconstitutional in the way it is currently written. The government can not force you to buy something. They can tax you for things you don't want, which they do every day, but it is unconstitutional for them to force you to buy something.

My answer is no,
for this specific bill, which isn't even finished yet, and hasn't been read by the members of congress, let alone Obama,

A bill of this magnitude rammed through, why?

Couldn't they have taken their time?

That wont go into effect until 2019?

the reforms are expected to cost $938 billion during the next decade. It is going to be paid for by cuts in Medicare, new taxes on investment income and fees on various industry participants--which certainly will be passed along to the general public. But while government subsidies for people who cannot afford insurance and insurance exchanges to help people get insurance won't be operational before 2014, the increased costs will begin next year.

It is going to be paid for by cuts in Medicare?

Drug companies like Merck ( MRK - news - people ), Pfizer ( PFE - news - people ) and Amgen ( AMGN - news - people ) are among the biggest industry winners in the legislation.

www.forbes.com...

you can read the rest.

reply to post by impressme

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no

... i have my reasons.

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