For those of you who live in the United States, what are your opinions on this bill that just went through?

Hey wrong user link good luck with all that. I have met many inner city crack heads and heroin addicts who come from generations of welfare recipients and have complete Fed/State medical coverage. And for the record, it's these bottom feeders who I am against. They are criminals who cost society billions of dollars. Then there are honest Americans like you who struggle to find health care. I'm not convinced this new law will mean you have access to the care you need but I wish you the best of luck.
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And Bayfia, not even sure how to respond to someone who doesn't even have a basic understanding of Obamacare yet is in here ranting all over the map. I can only guess that posting emotional drivel serves as some form of therapy. I am trying to be respectful in my posts here but you are certainly not extending the same courtesy.

you need to get informed a little better. It is not a tax. You can learn more here. Out of the 30 million Americans who do not have insurence, many work more than one job but either cannot afford the premiums or their employer keeps them just below the hours needed to qualify for insurence. These people pay taxes, probably more than one who works one midle-class tax bracket job and has insurence. Of course, change is difficult, especially when living in a society that has been taught for more than a century, that anything socialized is a BAD THING... Well, there is very little socialization about this. This is just fair medicine. I paid about $100 a month to have insurence, when I changed jobs (not company, just location) they cut me off. Unfortunately, during that 3 month forced break I got sick and should have been hospitalized. I was lucky enough to work in the healthcare field and knew plenty of octors and nurses who heped me recover free of charge. Later, I discovered that the CEO of the insurrence company got annual bonuses (with my money!!!)
There will always be those who don't help to pay into the system for whatever reason, but I am willing to help out as I would hope someone would return the favor to me if needed.
I am an American but live in Europe. Believe me, after experiencing the relief of delivering two children, recieving proper medical attention in an emergency situation without the fear of having to pay and not being turned away for not having insurrence, I am truly grateful and proud of this new plan.
Go Obama!!!!!
see video and read about it here:
www.whitehouse.gov
or read about it at
NPR

"If you drive a car you are forced to buy insurance so if you hit someone you can pay the costs. Same idea with the health insurance mandate. If you don't buy health insurance you are going to get hurt or get sick at some point in the future and then you will show up at the emergency room and then all the people who have insurance pay higher premiums because they have to absorb your costs. It isn't that complex"
it's also another option for health coverage besides private insurance, which may (we'll see), at this point in it's provisions (it was not passed as law, only parts of its whole were mandated by court ruling), create competition in the market and as a result, lower premiums for the insured.

Looking at this can be both complex and really simple.
Americans love freedom and don't want to be told what to buy. And because we are lazy too.
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The more complex look at it shows small businesses will suffer from skyrocketing health insurance for their employee's. Most businesses usually pay 50% of health insurance premiums so the employee doesn't have the full burden.
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This may be something okay for Corporations, but if corporations don't make enough profit, they will start laying off people so the CEO can get his $50 million bonus each year.
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I think health insurance is a good thing to have, but I don't think people and businesses should be forced to have it. If so many people really want free health care, they could easily move to another country. Canada wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't winter all year round.

Car insurance is not a forced requirement. You can drive a car on your own property without it. BUT if you want to drive on public roads and highways, the owners of those roads require that you have insurance in order to protect others who are using their roads etc.
If the law goes all the way as written, all of the insurance companies will stop health insurance because of the lower insurance rates that will be paid for by taxpayers and borrowing from other countries. I wonder how many of the insurance companies employees will loose their jobs.

Well, if you pay $100 a month for heatlh insurance and go to the doctor 1 or 2 times a year and it cost them $50 a visit, you can see who is getting money without doing much.

Same for Car Insurance, I pay $80 a month and they have only had to pay out $50 in the last 6 years (and that was for towing my car to the repair shop).

The wall street protesters are against people making money without actually doing much. But they still support Obama even though he is making insurance companies richer than ever.

Well I don't know exact details to how it is in the US, but in Canada, this is how it works: Everyone has free health care and part of your taxes go towards paying for it. I love the way it works and wouldn't change it for the world. Even though people keep whining about taxes being high (and they kinda are insanely high in most canadian provinces), I find it doesn't matter since it comes right back to you through social programs. (ex: you don't have to go in huge amounts of debt when trying to pay for college and university)

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first off, the american people are going to be paying for this. either thru a tax or by a rate. dont think for a second that we are getting FREE health care. the comparison of car insurance and this is just not a good one. the idea of this bill is that every citizen will have to have health care. cant afford it? too bad, guess picking up a third job is in the future of many. what really pisses me off about all of this is not that it is forced ( i think that it is a practical bill and really could improve things) but that many people are yelling for birth control, and other medications to be covered. no one is saying you cant get birth conrol, but should everyone( including catholic church and other groups aginst the use of such things) have to pay for it? agian it is coming to a point that americans in general are not well informed and have been tricked into thinking that our leaders are looking out for them. dude we are a vote, not anything more to them. we dont give money in thier accounts, nor have effectively organized ourselves to even put out a single point or demand. we are the the worlds vision of america, lazy stupid and too involved in american idol to notice that we are really about to come to a major change in socail structure, and world placment. we are not the best, we lack education, strong banking system and problem solving skills. the worst part is that people are not actually set up to deal with the changes we need to make. cutting fuel cost, conserving energy, reusing and not throwing away usful things. we have been passing the buck down the line for such a time that we have really put our kids and thier kids in a horrible state. we really have less and less to offer the rest of the world, and have over used our "victories" of ww1 and ww2 (btw, we kept dodging those wars and really only came in last second. the fact that we say we won those wars shows how much we are full of shit. we arent even self reliant, thanks for the loans china! bottom line america is fucked unless we as a people pull togeather like we have in the past. the me first mentality has to go and the idea that we are each "special" is fucking stupid. teach your kids the world doesnt care who they are, we are each a number. really we only matter to the people around us. maybe then we can do something instead of saying its unfair and someone elses fault. yeah it may be but we each have to fix it. kinda reminds me of the fall of rome.

What is the source of this? One thing to note in many countries infant deaths are calculated a lot differently than in the USA.
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