No I'm saying I oppose the health care reform because for one I don;t feel like I should have to pay for somebody else's health care, I can't afford my taxes to go up any more, the City I work for might cancel out group health insurance, which makes me a criminal if I no longer have insurance, and I'm FORCED BY LEW to go out and buy it. health care reform will cost Trillions, and please explain to me how saving a billion can offset the trillions? This bill now that its been passed by our socialist party in DC has effectively proven to me that congress does what congress wants, to hell with whats best for the nation. And their isn't that must recoverable funds to offset squat in this bill. We weer lied to from the very start, America doesn't want this bill Congress does, the United States Govt has abandoned its people as far as I'm concerned.
This bill has more problems than the "fix it" bill they had to pass the day after they passed the bill, which lights up another red light in my head, why in eth hell did they pass a bil they knew dam good and well wasn't right in teh first place?
But you already are paying for someone else. Example: Medicare, Medicade, the VA, SCHIPS, FEHBP, there are tons of federal programs that provide healthcare to specific groups. The only ones NOT getting Government healthcare are ordinary private citizens.
Furthermore if you are a Public Employee you might (probably) have a local state health plan -which means someone else is paying for yours. And your a Vet correct? Guess what? I am paying for you through Veterans Affairs. Do you hear me complaining about it? Answer:
NO
That's the utter hypocrisy I hear from the right. They don't want to pay for anyone else plan but they don't want anyone to touch their government plan either. Remember the women who screamed at Biden "We don't want your Socialism (referring to HCR), -dont you touch my medicare". I wanted to reach through the screen and give her reality check B**** slap. (Medicare being the biggest most expensive government social program out there). To this day I wonder if that women was selfish, stupid, or both.
And why stop at healthcare? I don't want to pay for useless wars in Iraq, subsides for agro-businesses, bank bailouts, useless weapon projects, bridges to nowhere in Alaska population: 50. I could list a thousand things far more useless than healthcare. Think I was given the choice? At least this actual helps people who need it. We in America, need to stop being so selfish. Everything we are now is defined by greed and excess.
If you read the Bill, there was nothing about a tax increase EXCEPT for those holding a "Cadillac Health Plan", and if your a public employee you probably don't have, unless you happen to own the city you work in. So no worries about your taxes going up.
What we need is a single payer system. This is how it works: The government creates a fund. Taxes which everyone pays are aloted into the fund. When you need to pay medical bills money is withdrawn from that fund. Some things are not covered (but that's what HMOs are for). Things like elective surgury, certain types of medication, etc, but the fund covers all the important stuff.
Advantages to the system: Its fair (everyone is covered), there is no HMO to deal with (they are optional), it saves money, It provides competition to the HMOs and it actually works! All first world countries have such a system or a variety of it. We are the only country stuck with the crap system that we have now.
You ask why did we have something we know was crap? You can thank your friends on the rightwing for that. They are the ones who killed the public option, that was our first step in breaking away from the for-profit system we have now. The GOP and their HMO lobbyists killed it.