The Health Care Reform Bill

    Okay, okay, I know that sparks fly and teeth nash in Utah on this subject, but here I go anyway. Health care reform is a tricky thing. You have to look deeper, and for patterns in the different segments. I found a website:  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0322/Health-care-reform-bill-101-what-the-bill-means-to-you.
This website is one of the least biased ones on the web, and explains things well, even if it was made in the last spring.
      First of all, I believe that the government paying for our healthcare would be not a bad idea. Now before you all point at me and yell "DEMOCRAT," I do not agree to everything that the bill says.

Good Things About the Bill:

      First of all, 32 million people that did not previously have health care coverage will be able to afford coverage. Second, health care insurers cannot refuse to insure because of a preexisting condition. Third, the less money you make, the less of it you have to spend on healthcare.
       If you are in what is considered to be the federal poverty rate, the government will only let up to 9.8 percent of your income go to health care. The lower you are in the poverty rate, the less percentage you have to pay (counting down from 9.8). This means that you will still pay partially for you own health care, but the government will help you. This will allow millions of people to be able to have health care.
      In the past, insurers have been able to deny you coverage just because of a preexisting condition (something that has happened in the past and may happen again, or perhaps is already happening again). Now, everyone who struggled to get health care because of preexisting conditions will be able to purchase health care.

Bad Things About the Health Care Bill:

    There are a few not-so-good things about the bill. First, the healthcare STILL runs thought corporations! Insurance agencys are coperations, and they will do what corperations do, squeeze every last ounce of money out of you. Second, the rich societies will be taxed for this. Third, you will be required to buy health care. Also, do realize that I am only fourteen, and I don't know ALL of the good and bad things, just those I have been able to research.
     If you want my rant about corperations, you should read my blog post entitled Corporations. Just keep in mind that insurance agencies are corperations.
     To cover costs of the bill, the government is taxing insurance agencies, tanning booths, and the rich societies of the United States. Now, some say that taxing the rich is bad, some good. (I put it in bad because the message about corperations was short). It makes sense to take money out of people who have lots, and give it to people who have little, but many rich people got where they were through a lot of hard work and determination, and to have that given perhaps to people who don't or didn't work is a little unfair. Not to say that all poor people are lazy, because most are not.
      Last but not least, you will be required of the government to buy health care. I cannot think of a reason why they would do this, and it doesn't say why in any of the websites that I have been to. So, I put it as a bad thing, because the government will give you a cumulative fine (one that increases in percent annually) that can cost a lot more than the health care.

Common Misconceptions:
    
     There are a few things that people don't understand, or they ignore because they are biased (usually journalists and politicians). First, the government is not forcing us to buy health care directly from them, but from a corporation or small agency. The government only gives us support in the costs. Next, people claim that it is unconsititutional to force people to buy health care, but every major war we have had to draft people into the military. We FORCE them to risk their lives. With the health care bill, we will save many lives. My mother (who is a nurse) had to recently turn out a man dying from serious lukemia on the street basically to die slowly and painfully. With the bill, no person will be rejected from the hospital, because everyone will have health care. Are we all going to stick up our heads and declare selfishly "Unconstitutional!" or are we going to swallow our inflated pride, and save that lives of people that are hoping desperately for this bill to pass so that they can be cured and treated of diseases they can't afford to treat.