Thoughts on the Health Care Reform Bill

My dear readers, as I’m sure all of you are aware, unless you were hiding under some box, on May 21st, 2010, the health care bill was passed. This bill, in essence, is trying to give millions of Americans insurance who do not currently over it. While this bill may seem like a no brainer of a good thing, it is a very highly controversial matter. As always Dr. J is going to say what he thinks. Try not to take offense to it, by all means feel free to think a completely different way. In fact I encourage each of you to read and research the bill for yourselves, this is something although our Government already passed, is something you really need to know about and be able to at least understand the basic concepts. Here is a link of the bill (http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf). It is almost 2,000pgs long, so obviously I did not have the chance to read it all, but if you want to really know what is being said, you can read it for yourself. In this blog, I will try to unravel how I feel about this matter. I do not claim to be an expert, nor the voice of all the people, though I had a number of people contact me in wanting this blog to be done. As I said, I am not trying to convince anyone, although if you do agree with me that’s great. This is simply one man’s opinion on a very controversial matter.
First off, the idea of universal health care, like many ideas good in theory, but when you try to break it down in principal it just really does not do you much good. The idea of being able to give health care, especially to those who cannot afford their own private insurance, is a nice thought. It would be nice to be able to do that. But the problem is, we live in America. Now I don’t know if you knew this or not, but in America, our Government is in debt in the trillions. When you live in a country which is in debt by the trillions, one has to ask themselves whether or not they really know what they are doing in the first place. Providing health care to Americans is a very expensive task, and it is one which is reported in the next ten years to cost over 900 billion dollars, and that is assuming it is an accurate estimate. Even though the bill says it wants to reduce the spending in health care, I do not see how you are going to be able to accurately do it. It is infeasible and it is not reasonable for someone to think health care is magically going to go down. People say though well it works in Canada. My dear people, do you know how much Canadians get charged in taxes? I do not have an exact number for you, but it is a pretty large amount. This really should not surprise anyone. Health care is expensive and I do not care how the Government tries to say it, it is still going to be expensive and although they say you are not going to pay as much for health care anymore (because we all know the Government would never tell a lie. I mean, just ask Bill Clinton) you will have to pay an arm and a leg in taxes.
But will you even get everything you really need? If you go to the fourth page of the link which I had posted, go down to line 17 of D where it says “so that all Americans can have ESSENTIAL health care benefits”. What exactly is essential? Who determines what essential or not? The Government does. And I think it is really going to come down to is, unless you have to have it, then it is not considered essential and you are not going to get it. Now you maybe thinking I have no proof to back up that claim. Well right now you are right I do not have the proof to back up such a claim, but do you really want to find out I was right? What happens if you get a injury which is a pain to have, but it is one in which you can live with. A injury in which it would be nice to have work done on it, but it is one in which does not need immediate attention. Hey after all, Brett Favre played with an ankle injury for years, so obviously not all injuries are something which needs work done on them right away. Who says the government is not going to decide you are not going to get surgery because it is not an absolute necessity. I do not think people quite understand exactly what is going on here. The Government is taking over the health care system which means they have the ability to take and make all the shots. And therefore, if they want to decide you do not need a surgery then you are not going to have a surgery. Do people realize how much the power the Government has here? Of course the Government is suppose to be the voice of the people, well there are a lot of Americans out there, whose voice is not being heard. And there were also a lot of politicians out there, who also did not think it was a good idea, because it showed in a very close race. But people who are not informed about political issues, elect idiots into office who then go and make devastation decisions like this. This is why it is so important for you to try to be educated on this. Even if you agree with what I am saying, I hope you do your own research. I want to say again, it is perfectly fine if you disagree with me. If you like the health care bill then fine that is great. If after doing research you still like it, good at least you did some research on it. But as I am reading this, I do not like the power the Government has. The Government I strongly feel abused its power in this bill. It has given itself a great source of power and it has the potential to take even more power away from the people.
And the thing of it is, you may be paying high taxes on something you do not qualify for. The bill talks about who qualifies, but it is mainly those who are not insured or meet other specific requirements. Another thing you may have to pay for is abortions. Now reading some other sources, it sounds like individual states will vote to decide whether or not they will cover it. But you may be paying for abortions, the killing of helpless and innocent potential lives. This sickens my soul and it is an ultimate slap to the face. Having to pay taxes so people can kill innocent lives. It is an abomination. But hey if the government says we should help pay for abortions then that is what we should do.
We Americans are supposed to have a voice. I know the bill was made with “good intention” to those who are not able to afford health care, but the fact is, the bill is taking power away from the American people. The bill is something which is lying when it says it is going to be more feasible. Not only are taxes going to go sky high, but I really do not believe our government which is in debt by trillions knows what they are doing here. Sure enough it is going to come back down the road and bite some people in the butt and it is going to be the tax payers, and those who after depending on the government for health care found out many of them were still not going to get the coverage they thought they were going to get. I do not trust the Government on this. It is going to be really bad for American unless somewhere down the road this is stopped. It is hard for me to say that, because I do feel bad for those without coverage. My heart does go out to them, and although I do think there should be some way to help them get some coverage, having a government run health care system is not the way of going about doing it. The Government is and will continue to abuse its power.

There is so much more I could probably discuss about this bill. I encourage you to leave feedback. Whether you disagree or agree. As always though, keep in mind, while Dr. J does run sometimes controversial blogs, he does try to make them reader friendly for all people. If you would like to contact Dr. J privately, email him at WolverineFan001@hotmail.com (Dr. J will soon be getting a new email, but that one will still be in use). You can also become a fan of Dr. J on facebook at (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Dr-J/28846666724?ref=ts) I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing your feedback.