House’s health care reform passes

I suppose it is easy to debate whether health care reform is needed when you and your family have health insurance. It’s not so easy for me.  My husband was laid off in June, my family did not qualify for the stimulus package for COBRA that would make COBRA affordable for us, because we are eligible for coverage through my employer, but the coverage costs $800.00 a month for the family plan, which is a little less than 1/2 of my take home pay a month.  So, we had to decide if we would eat and keep a roof over our heads or if we would have health insurance.  We attempted to buy private insurance for the children, but my son has asthma, so nobody will cover him.  My husband still has not been able to find a job and we live in fear of our children getting really sick and us losing everything.  I’ve managed to find both of them H1N1 vaccines, so hopefully nobody ends up hospitalized, because I’m still paying off the $1000.00 hospital bill I got when my son spent 30 minutes in the ER and got 2 X-Rays because he hurt his foot.  Of course we don’t qualify for Medicaid because we make too much money, nor do we want Medicaid because we have worked all of our lives and should have something to show for it. I find it difficult to believe that people actually say our health care system doesn’t need fixed.  My work’s health insurance is through the State Employee’s Local Choice.  If State employees can’t afford health coverage for the families…something needs to happen.  I can’t imagine being so selfish as to say, well I have good health insurance and I don’t want it to change so I’m against any health reform.  That’s 1/2 of what’s wrong with this country today.  Everybody looking out for themselves and not caring a bit about their neighbors.  I really don’t have time to debate it all, I need coverage NOW!

The representives that did not vote for
health care reform should be ashamed of
their selfish act. Their primary responsibility is to protect the populace not the insurance co.s and their pocketbooks.

If Obamacare passes the Senate and becomes law, the GOP will be unable to reverse it, even if they retake Congress next year. Obama will certainly veto any bill they would put forth to undo the plan, and it is very doubtful the GOP could gain enough seats to override that veto,(or gain cloture in the Senate). So, if the bill passes the Senate; Obamacare will be a reality.

@ shadowguitar:

“The practice of medicine consists of the delivery of intimate services to the human body. In almost all instances, the delivery of medical services occurs in one place and does not move across interstate lines. One goes to a physician not to engage in commercial activity, as the Framers of the Constitution understood, but to improve one’s health. And the practice of medicine, much like public school safety, has been regulated by states for the past century.“

I’m sorry Dee, but that’s incorrect.

http://health.burgess.house.gov/UploadedFiles/House_HCR_bill.pdf

Page 94—Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government.

Page 297—Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health insurance—the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign.

Page 1174—Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled “TAXES ON CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES” to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosi’s promise that “We will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the House,” and the President’s promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under $250,000.

Page 313—Section 512 imposes an 8 percent “tax on jobs” for firms that cannot afford to purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health coverage.