For a country that's spent nearly $975 trillion dollars since 2001 on two wars, where the media and common opinion didn't bat an eye at, spending $940 billion to make a national health care bill, sends everyone in an uproar. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 100% sold on the health care bill and there are parts of it that I don't like, but where was everyone when we began pumping money into a wild-goose chase. Didn't that scenario seem strange? That came out of our pocket too ya know, on average nearly $9,000 per household.
Here's the way I see it, granted it's just my opinion, but let's be honest, the American media has fueled your minds already about this health care bill, and there is only a select few who can honestly say they know what is going to happen when this bill hits the ground and goes into place. Being fooled by CNN, Fox, MSNBC and other news/media outlets alike, by letting their media minds control your vision.
One of two possible things will/can go down with this health care bill.
First - as you keep seeing on some news outlets, Insurance companies will begin to be held accountable for their actions. They won't be allowed to drop you when you get sick, even thought you've been paying your premiums (for example, and that does happen). All kids in the US cannot be denied health care.
I think there might be some of the misconceptions about how this will affect Medicare and other forms of the current state of your Private health care insurance. I don't have all the facts either way, I'm not claiming that.
Second - there's no doubt that the possibility that this bill is being created to get us out of a national debt. How you might ask? Good question, but the possibility is quite simple. It acts the same way your phone company, say Verizon, makes money off of your new phone service, that whole, "buy-one-get-one-free--AFTER-the mail in rebate." So you pay for that phone upfront...where does that money go? It goes into a bank, and while it sits in that bank for 30, 60 even 90 days, that money accrues interest, and when you times that by a few million people, that makes someone a lot of money.
Now put that into place when you have 100 million Americans paying their taxes for something that won't fully go into effect in the next year. A lot of these health care programs and ideas may not hit until 2014, that's a potential of 4 years worth of interest being built up on your taxes from this year, 2011, 2012, and 2013. That's a lot of money.
The second (above) is speculation, I've heard it once on Fox News that there was speculation and it was quickly shot down in the debate that it was possible, as it is merely hearsay, but entirely possible. Just think about it, what would you expect the government to do with tax money that is sitting waiting for something to go into effect 4 years from now?
Let's face it, health care is coming. I do agree that I have no interest in paying for the health insurance for the people who are unwilling to go to work and keep a job in order to pay their own personal premiums on health insurance.
This is a large step (unless you refuse to see it in a positive light) into our country keeping a checks & balance system on businesses that control a large part of our well-being. Here's a second example, what about the housing market and all those bad loans that were written in the late 90s until the mid-2000s? CNBC a few months ago ran a story on how people are losing their homes because (for example) they were given a $300,000 loan, when the potential home buyer's net income was under $40,000 or worse. Major corporations were lumping good loans with an AAA rating with bad loans and packaging them out to foreign investors as if they were all good loans.
What do you think happened when those foreign investors realized that they were getting bad loans? Yea, they stopped loaning their money to those corporations, thus making it harder to get a home loan, as well as getting people with these large loans into payment troubles when the market went south.
The POINT - the point here is, someone needs to regulate when a business makes purposeful hidden moves, for financial gain, and when they get caught, they attempt to punish the people who were approved for such a large loan. This runs the same when health insurance drops you when you get the flu or a broken arm, yet, you have a PRIVATE insurance plan, that you pay, on time and in full. What's the difference between the two scenarios? Nothing, they're both wrong.
If the government can control and regulate Television and the Internet, isn't it about time that someone was making sure that Private businesses that dominate the market with a monopoly that runs at its own pace, be looked at to make sure it is being done properly and at the best interest of the buyer? We're not talking about cars, but wait, the government does have standards for American and Foreign auto makers when making their cars safe for the American public.
Damn...and I thought that the government being involved in our society made us all communists. Um...oh wait, that's what our government is supposed to do, REGULATE what we have and keep the standards high to give us the best that we can get.
I really don't get how everyone has this vision that President Obama is bringing us to a Socialist society, if you look back in the history books in which you read in grade school, government has been an extremely active part of our lives, well before we were born. Whether it was creating regulations on our rail-road system or when we first stuck oil.
My opinion, as a country, we're letting the media dominate our confusion, and it's about time we all learn the facts, myself included. If I'm completely wrong and need to be corrected, just like I say to what I see on television, show me some facts, I'm looking for them too.
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