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Has anybody that's against Health Care reform read the bill?
Everyone says that the American people want health care reform, but not the current proposal. My question to you people is what do you know about the health care bill? Everything most people know about the bill is coming from the media, which is biased in both directions. You can not say that you don't want this bill unless you have read all 2000 pages yourself.
You do not know all of the facts when you haven't gone through it yourself. When you watch FOX news, you are hearing all the bad, when you watch more liberal news, you are hearing all of the good.
All of you people that say you don't want "Obamacare" (which is the dumbest slogan ever), don't know anything about it. All you know is what Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck tell you.
18 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Of course not. The GOP relies on an uninformed electorate, otherwise, who would vote for them?
- 1 decade ago
Most of congress has themselves not read the bill, just debated what to go in it. You odn't have to read the whole bill to dislike it, as there could be just one part that you dislike.
Like for example:
They are making it mandatory you buy coverage, but doing little to address the high cost of premiums. This will put some people at a disadvantage because they now will be forced to buy health insurance. Those qualifying will recieve a gov subsidy but won't cover the full amount.
When I was 18 I worked at subway and didn't buy helath insurance. i was young and healthy. Now someone who makes 700 a month will be forced to buy a helath care plan that meets minimum standards. This would suck if I was 18 again.
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Or how about how htey tax for 10 years but only give 6 years of benefits. The higher fees and taxes wil start immediately but the health care bill wouldn't go in effect untill 2012. How convenient, it is going into effect right before the next election.
- 1 decade ago
I have read the full Senate and House bill (although the House bill is essentially dead). I have the 1000+ page .pdf's on my desktop. I am proudly against the health care reform effort being led by Democrats, and sorry to disappoint you, but I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck also. Infact, I've never even voted for a Republican in my life. I voted for Clinton, Nader and Kerry in my life.
- J PLv 71 decade ago
Yes, the constant bleating refrain of the Left: anyone who disagrees with them must be stupid and ill-informed. I did read HR-3200 in its entirety, and much of the Senate bill. I'm looking at the latest Obama iteration.
Here's the deal: It's actually possible for people who are just as smart as you are, to have a principled and well informed opposition to your point-of-view. Stop repeating slogans about Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and their mindless minions. With hundreds of you out there chanting exactly the same slogans about how Conservatives are sheep, the irony is overwhelming.
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- doug4jetsLv 71 decade ago
Let's see, every bill congress has passed for the last 33 years has been horrible, so, no, I don't feel I have to read it to be against it. And I don't listen to Rush or Beck or OReilly or Maddow, or Olbermann, or Maher, or even Forbes or ANY other talking head. I trust, respect, and support Ron Paul (R-Tx) who no doubt has and will vote against any health bill in the House. Any version of the health bill will be a boon to Big Pharma and the insurance industry (probably actually written by their law departments!) while it will cost us more for worse care and fewer options. No thank you. Congress collectively sucks and I refuse to support anything they try to do. In my next post, I'll tell people how I really feel! *snark*
- 1 decade ago
If someone came up to me and offered me terms on keeping the 100 dollars in my wallet, I would not listen to their terms. I would consider them hostile.
My health care is just fine.
So you say, "why don't I think about someone else besides myself?". Well why don't they think about me? I do not vote others' opinions, I vote my own. I want to be left alone. Do I need to read hundreds of pages of gibberish every time some politician gets a "brilliant idea" on how to change my life? I would never stop reading the stuff and would not even have time to work. You think I am going to make time for that? No, your health care bill is like the Morm0ns and Jeh0vas Witnesses that come to my door. I will not make time to listen to their aggressive details and propaganda about how without them I will go to hell. I will be left alone and I will vote to be left alone. OK?
- roderusLv 45 years ago
She flew in for an after-vote occasion. (After the polls closed). Obama's human beings referred to as this a rally and claimed she replaced into campaigning, in violation of the over-all contract. i assume, technically, her human beings did could tell supporters with reference to the rally in the past the polls closed to get human beings again out. yet, she did no longer marketing campaign; and he or she replaced into completely interior of her rights to thank her people who worked interior the marketing campaign in Florida. nevertheless, the two factors are going to spin concerns in spite of in the event that they experience will provide themselves an element and sell off on the different section.
- kristi pLv 41 decade ago
OK i ask...have all of you that WANT the bill read it?? Its 2700 PAGES long. It is so long and complicated that the average american can't understand it completely and therein lies the problem. But what is 100% clear is WE CAN'T AFFORD IT. And the majority of Americans don't want it. Which WILL be clear when the people who muscle this thing through do not get re-elected.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
How can anyone be FOR it if they haven't read it? How can you elect legislators who vote on it when they haven't read it?
This is a boom for insurance companies. It will force me to choose between buying health insurance and making my house payment. Physicians for a national health program have the right idea. Expand MediCare, fund it and there's no new bureaucracy.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Has anybody that's FOR Health Care reform read the bill?
- The TaxpayerLv 71 decade ago
Has anyone read the bill? You certainly haven't.... and neither have any of the people that are for it.
We all rely on the information that we trust. I do not trust Obama at all, nor do I trust any of the information that his organization feeds.