Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform has been a controversy for many decades. Past presidents have tried hard to create a new reform but have not been successful until now with Obama. While it is not perfect, it is a new step towards a better health care system. The purpose of the bill is to make sure everyone can get affordable, quality health care from guaranteed insurance and reduce health care costs. The US currently spends over 2.5 trillion dollars for healthcare and it still continues to rise exponentially. Many people in America are uninsured which causes harm to both themselves and to the health care system as they are not getting the treatment they deserve and need, and more debts are being created in the end. Now with the bill, all people with income below 133% of the federal poverty level will be able to go into medicaid. Insurance is guaranteed and medical underwriting is not allowed. It will be easier to access health care for everyone. Medicaid, medicare, and public health will all be improved. It will an extra cost of about 950 billion over 10 years to fully implement the changes but in the long run, less money will be spent on health care and costs will be reduced.

Democrats supported this bill greatly and it was finally passed.

Democrats stand for the interests of the working Americans and want personal liberties

for all. Their goal is to raise the economy, create affordable healthcare for Americans,

have retirement security, and many more. Democrats want the government to make

changes to better the lives of all Americans. The democrats are considered more liberal

so they would support health care reform. The republicans greatly opposed the reform.

Republicans oppose health care reform as they believe government is given more power

from controlling America's health care. Less power is given to the citizens in the choice of

health care then. Also, there is greater taxation on wealthier people with the health care

reform. Republicans are considered more conservative and health care reform is a

huge change. To appease the Republicans, few changes have been made to the health bill.

I think the health care reform bill is a good change. So far, the current health care system

has not been working well so hopefully this new change will bring a better health care

system to the US. I think it is good how people are mandated to get health insurance

now but at the same time, insurance is made affordable and easy to access so everyone in the

US can be insured. Health care expenditures will lower and hopefully the money can go

towards other areas like public health and improve things in America greatly. Everyone in

my family is already insured so there probably won't be a major change. We may have to

pay higher tax but it will be for the better in the long run. This reform could my grandparents

more as they are on medicare and it is supposed to be improved.

The healthcare system before the reform had some strengths. If insured, people would

have great consumer access and America is top in medical technologies. Financial

incentives also worked well for special services between physicians and insurance companies.

Of course there were many other strengths but it also had many weaknesses. Hopefully

with the reform, America's health care system will gain even more strengths. If ranking

of the US in least infant mortality and lifespan goes up and health care does not cost so

much, it would a good indicator the new health care is working well.