Healthcare Bill

A favorite discussion point Nova Instructors like to bring up and debate is healthcare reform. This would actually be an interesting point to have a discussion/debate on....IF the students knew about this topic in advance, and therefore had looked into the topic. This is a topic that really gets me going. NO, I do not know everything about the healthcare bill, but I am doing my research to learn more. The reason this topic bothers me so much is because students AND instructors like to say things about the bill that they haven't really researched. An instructor the other day showed us a video clip of why the healthcare bill is so great. Following the video, a student asked if we could see a video another view, the republican view of healthcare reform so that we could see the other side. Although this was a good suggestion, we actually already heard the negatives just by listening to the benefits (if you understood what was being said). Like it brought up how this problem would not add to the nation's deficit. Though they said it wouldn't lead to a deficit, it will be paid for by taxes, and all the leading economists after studying the bill believe that it will increase the cost of our healthcare. It will decrease the quality and accessibility of overall healthcare for those have already been paying for healthcare for years. In other words, healthcare rationing will occur. Another point was you don't have to choose to go with the public option, you can keep your current insurance provider. Before this point, they brought up some other points like, no insurance is allowed to deny you due to pre-existing conditions and they can't have a maximum benefit. But, if you truly think about those statements, how much longer will private insurance companies be in business? So will you really be able to keep your current insurance? Not for long.

Here is the other video that was shown.

Although this may seem like a good approach to healthcare, in reality it's just another social government program that when totally simplified is just taking more from those that work hard and giving to those who don't. Keeping those who don't, more dependent on the government. This system never works. In reality, it will bring more people down and eventually cripple our economy. Canada is often a comparison for the model of healthcare president Obama would like. Well first off the whole country of Canada has fewer people than California. You cannot truly compare the two. Second, over half of our U.S budget goes towards national defense which Canada does not have to do because they are lucky enough to be our neighbor. Third if we REALLY look at Canada we see long waiting lists and hoards of people coming to the U.S for the really important procedures and really loving the fact that they have free healthcare payed for for when they have a cold or an ear infection. Ask our friend Jeff, 8 months to get an MRI on his back in Canada. Ask his sister who could not get necessary cancer treatment so eventually her life was saved in the U.S. My step mother now lives in the U.S and has many insights into why the system in Canada is really bad.