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Americans are you for or against health care reform.
By sharone74
@sharone74 (4837)
United States
4 responses
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
24 Mar 10
I absolutely support health care in the U.S. there is a lot that needs to be adressed. And now that they have passed this abomination of a healthcare bill theres going to be even more to go back and fix. So now do we not only have to reform our system..we have to reform the "reforms" they made to our system. And to answer your other question, I am a member of a couple parties actually, the Libertarian party and the Constitution party.
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@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
26 Mar 10
I have heard of the Libertarians but not the Constitution party. The question however was do you support health care reforms sweety. Everyone supports health care one way or another. You don't think that the bill that Obama signed Tuesday goes far enough or do you think that it is overreaching?
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
26 Mar 10
I meant to type "health care reform". It was a typo. Yes, things need some reforming, there are very few people in this country who don't want that. As for the bill that just passed, I can't get past the mandate or the fact that it involved the IRS...those two factors alone were enough of a deal breaker for me. But, before we reform ANYTHING, we first need to reform our federal government. Nothing is going to get better until we do that no matter how many bills we pass or what we pass them for. Until that time, we should not allow them to pass a single piece of legislation, not one. Besides, we already have more laws in this country than any reasonble person can live by.

@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
25 Mar 10
I am a Reagan Republican and I support Health Care Reform but oppose the Obama Care Law. I think we should take a section at a time and fix it. Why do Health Insurance Premiums keep going up? It is not insurance it is a pre paid health care and people are using it. If it were insurance we would cover ourselves for the major illness and not the daily medicine we take. What we should do is expand the Health Savings Account (HSA) so that you can save pretax dollars to pay for routine medical care. People could then buy an insurance policy that would have a high deductible and cover everything. There would be a yearly limit ($500,000) on the coverage. You would then have a second policy that would have a $500,000 deductible with no limits. The insurance company would only pay for the big unexpected things and you would have the money in your HSA for your routine medical expenses up to your deductible.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
26 Mar 10
When people discuss it they say, what should be done is this... or that... but with all of the politicians wrangling for position, power plays, and riders on the bill it is all but impossible for anyone to get anything through the house and the Senate and voted into law. Especially not anything that is going to cost money to implement.
@rmorefield (941)
• United States
24 Mar 10
I don't consider myself to belong to a political party. When I vote, I vote for the individual issues and not for the "party". I do think that this country needs a reform in our healthcare. Everyone needs health insurance. I don't, however, think that it is right to pass a law saying that people need to buy it and if they don't, punish them. There are those of us, like myself, that cannot afford health insurance. I am a single mom of four. They have medicaid right now, which I am not eligible for because I am not disabled, a senior citizen, nor am I pregnant. So, my children have heath insurance, but I do not. It would be absolutely disastrous if someone told me that I would have to buy it for myself or face the consequences. I am too busy raising four kids on a week-to-week basis. I CANNOT AFFORD TO SPEND $300 A MONTH FOR HEALTH INSURANCE!!! I think that the rich leaders of this country need to think about things like that before they sign things that don't apply to them. I would much rather put food in my childrens' mouths than I would buy health insurance (even though I know that I should probably have it). The bottom line is, they need to make heathcare more affordable, and health insurance cheaper and available to all regardless of cost or pre-existing conditions.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
26 Mar 10
Well R isn't affordable health care and health care ability regardless of cost or pre-existing conditions part of what they are trying to change with this new bill that the President signed into law?
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