What's President Obama thinking??

I found an article from a July 2009 issue of USA Today. It goes pretty in depth on some of the proposed policies and I can't believe some of what I'm reading.

(For now I will just go into the first section of the article)

The article starts off with a few main points. One of the main points states that all Americans will be required to purchase goverenment approved insurance plans, and if you already have an issurance plan that you are happy with but it doesn't meet the government requirements it will be considered illegal and you will have to buy a new plan. There are also plans for a government-run, tax-payer subsidized plan to be set up to compete with private companies.

It's also very unclear as to what exactly the President is proposing. His administration is introducing a generalized plan and are going to leave the details up to Congress. The article does say that if you look at who the President has choosen to work on the reform with it gives some insight to what the full, detailed plan may be.

From looking into the proposals and statements of some of these people, it can be thought that health care will not start as a government-run, tax-payer system like Canada has. Private insurance would only exist for a period of time though until it turned into little more than a public utility (the government would have total control of its operation).

Do we really want the government to have complete control over something else in our lives???

Paying for Everyone

So I've heard my parents discussing the health care reform and I've listened to a little of what the President has been talking about, and well I'm not liking the whole health care for everyone policy or "free health care". Now before everyone starts jumping down my throat I'm going to ask that you think about this. For people who have jobs, they are able, for the most part, to secure some sort of health care. If your in college, your allowed to stay on with your parents until the age of 20-something. But what about those people who don't have jobs. Where are they going to get the money? They're not. Now I understand that things happen, you get sick, laid off, whatever. But some people just don't have jobs because they don't want to. They know the welfare system will take care of them. And I'm sorry but my well earned money is already going to go towards them in this way, why would I want even more of my income taken away so people too lazy to get a job can have a regular doctor...

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for raising taxes to pay for children or people with a legitimate reason not to be working i.e. health problems or just laid off and the economy's crap so they can't find a new job. But to raise taxes even more just so everyone has a chance...

And in terms of the whole "free health care" thing, I have friends that are Canadian (in case you don't know, Canadians have "free health care") and they hate the fact that they pay crazy high taxes for what is still crap health care. I don't know how many of you know anything about military health care but it's at the bottom of the chain (possibly the worst care ever) and that's what my friends compare their "free health care" to.