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Originally Posted by rahl
unfortunately it's not so simple. I myself was very much against this bill when I first heard about it because I am in the insurance industry and I also didn't really know what was in it. Having read most of it and seen the data surrounding it I have made a complete 180 to now supporting it.
Most people however don't want to do the work in order to judge the bill on the facts.
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Honestly, it's the media that is supposed to give us the facts, not the opinions of people. Why aren't they interviewing the people at the CBO? Why aren't the journalists telling us what is in the bill and how it will effect different people in differing situations?
It will probably make the insurance companies jobs easier now, since they can't try and find loopholes to deny payment. It will be interesting how that industry changes now. I'm still not sure what it will look like in 10 years.
And sometimes it is cheaper to treat someone like me for $2000 when I was poor, and then I was able to get a job and have been able to pay it back and a lot more in taxes over the past 6 years. So, they have done step 1 and passed it, but now step 2 is to get people to think that a basic level of health care is a right like in the vast majority of developed countries.
But, the Democrats and the White House really didn't do enough planning and screwed up how they handled it and communicated this to the public. I hope they learned a lot from this.