45,000 Americans die every year due to not having health
coverage.That should be enough to
justify the Health Care reform bill but there were still lots of objections. After
listening to hours of debate on the Health-Care Reform Bill, I heard many of
the objections to the bill answered again and again:
Objection #1: The bill is too expensive.Answer: The non-partisan Congressional Budget
Office calculates that the Bill will REDUCE the deficit by 1.3 trillion dollars
over twenty years!
Objection #2 : Why pass a Health-Care Bill when the major
problem is jobs? Answer: Independent economists estimate that the bill will
CREATE 4 million jobs over its life-time!
Objection #3: The Democrats were too partisan in passing the
bill.Answer: The bill contains more
than 200 amendments proposed by Republicans.
Objection #4: We need more time. Answer: Health-care-for-all
was first proposed by Teddy Roosevelt over 100 years ago.
Objection #5: The Bill will increase cost of coverage that people
already have. Answer: The bill will lead to REDUCED premiums as companies
compete for 30 million new customers created by the bill.The bill breaks the “death spiral” in which
companies increase prices, forcing many people to drop coverage, making less
money in the pool, forcing the companies to increase prices again; and the
process repeats itself.
Objection #6: The American people oppose the bill.Answer: As President Obama said in the
Health-Care summit, it all depends on how you ask the question.If you ask about the things IN the bill, the
overwhelming majority favor them.Do you
want the doughnut hole filled? Do you want equal funding for urban states and
rural states like Iowa in Medicare? Do
you want to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing
conditions?Do you want to prohibit
insurance companies from dropping coverage after someone gets sick?Do you want to prohibit insurance companies
from vetoing doctor-ordered treatments or drugs? Do you want to outlaw lifetime
caps on coverage? Etc. Most people think these are good ideas.
