The health care act is a fancy term for “health care LAW” and there are over 8000 pages of it as I understand. To interpret law a person needs a degree in law and even at that one finds varying opinions of the same text. How confusing is that?

Who really knows what it’s about? We see the side affects from it; things like friends of mine are now paying unbelievable prices for their health care, we see folks loosing the health care policies they have had for years, loosing their doctor and seeing premiums they cannot afford with unbelievably deductibles.

One article pointed out that there are many laws within this law which can potentially violate constitutional rights. Apparently if you are on this health care plan the government has the right to come inspect your home without a search warrant if the recipient falls under certain criteria such as “is there is a cigarette smoker in the house” What does that mean?

Overall it doesn’t seem like a good law to me but who really knows; It seems that it will take on a life of its own and we hope no one abuses the interpretation of its internal laws to undermine our constitution. The people of this nation need freedom and the ability to advance their self through good old hard work if we are to keep the success we’ve seen during our nations brief history.

One final thought is that because the health care law has over 8000 pages of legal jargon I think many people fear it. Some just listen to the simple words told to them by media and think it’s great or its not but time only time tell the story. I think that trust in leadership is at a very low level and many will resist the health care act simply out of fear of it. You can’t really blame them for that!

“The Democratic Party will happily trot out naive idealists like Barack Obama to deliver the “hope and change” prattle, because this kind of talk is very good for winning elections, but at its heart the Democratic Party is neither radical nor revolutionary. Neither are most of its voters.”

A couple of points –

I believe Mr. Obama IS a revolutionary, who believes the country as founded is Unjust, and is on a Mission to “Fundamentally Transform” it – his very own words …… and maybe he is being used “to win elections” ….but the Democratic Party is also being used by him ….. I will not be shocked when the “Affordable Care Act” collapses the health care system ….. then we have a crisis, which will be used as an excuse to Nationalize the health care system. He is an adherent to Alinsky, and seeks to overwhelm the system in order to destroy it and repace it with a “more just” Socialist one.

Maybe he is naive, but he has a huge constituancy of even more poorly educated followers ….. never underestimate the raw power of huge herds of dull witted animals moving at high speeds….

As for “most” Democratic voters not being radical or revoloutionary: ….. with a simple majority of housholds in the country as a whole dependent upon direct payments from the Federal Government for their standard of living…… and my personal observation that Republicans tend to be much more self sufficient, it’s pretty much a slam dunk that a majority of Democratic voters are voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train running on time. Whether it’s their SNAP benefits, their unending unemploymnt benefits, their student loans, or whatever, So long as that money gets posted to their account at the stroke of midnight on the 1st and 15th, they’ll keep pulling levers for those that promise to keep that happening.

Kruschev was right: They are burying us, by feeding us Socialism a little bit at a time …..

None of this would terribly alarm me but for the fact that the system they propose will not work, and will destroy the country in the process. With 40 cents of every dollar the Fed.gov spends being borrowed, we are already bankrupt, and if we stop borrowing money (or if the powers that lend to us simply decline to continue doing so) the whole house of cards collapses almost immediately. We cannot afford the entitlement sustem we have, and the ACA doubles down on it. This entitlement systm is like being locked in a room with a bear. The Democrats (really, we all are!) are stuck- they can’t stop feeding the bear, yet the amount of food they have to feed it is finite. The question will eventually become, “Who will we feed to the bear?”…. at that point, it really will devolve into a political battle be be the last eaten.

-Jim

Vendetta, again there are lot’s of thing than i can t explain totally, but this wiki pedia page is really good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
there is still something that you can here a lot in France about healthcare it ‘s ” le trou de la sécu” ” the hole ( in the buget ) of the healthcare”, but in fact lot s of taxes have benne made by our dear dear politicians 😉 to fulfill it ( taxes on alcool and tobaco mainly). The fact is our dear dear politicians, uses thoses taxes to pay something else, you know why? Because when you create a new tax, you can’t really say “this one is because we fail using our budget” but saying,” this one is to fulfill of our healthcare” is way better.
our beloved politicians ( from left and right) are happy to maintain the citizens in ignorance about it.
So, despite this problem our Healthcare system is really good, the only thing you re thinking when you are going to the ER is ” oh god not thoses stupid waiting rooms again”
our personnal healthcare ( if we want one) will pay 30% of the total cost of our health expense, the other 70% ? the government will take care of it
for common expenses. if you have some dental or optics needs i t s really important t have a private healthcare ( at least if you want rayban glasses, or ceramic fake teeth)

You’re totaly right Jeff,
and today, when i hire someone in my company i totaly see the over side of the coin, and how costly it is ( same thing with my taxes).
But if you look at the differences beetween the average health cost in USA and in over countrys i still think i pay less about it, than you are.
What Chris said, is true for me too:
“I’m no economist or health care expert”
truth is i don’t know the cost of a visit to the doc in your country, nor dentist, or breaking leg surgery. I don t know either, how much do you pay your health insurance and i agree aswell that i didn t double checked everything, the guy said in the video i posted earlyer, but for me he’s got a point.

Before working in my current company i used to work in a bank in a really poor neighbourhood and trust me sometimes, seeing people having their private healthcare paid by the government really pisses me off, why do i have to pay my rent, my health insurance ( event if it s not much) my taxes, my public transport etc when some of thoses guys didnt have to.
My economy (and my country’s) will be much better without paying for a part of the population who don t want to work ( not everyone but i can assure you i know plenty of those..bast… gentlemen) but i’m still happy than some people who are in the need (those who want to work) (especially when i was 😉 )can enjoy those things. Maybe not all these services but i still think we shouldn t negociate our health with anyone.

Finally, i still prefer paying more taxes but having a good healthcare than, saving money by crossing my fingers for not having any physical conditions, or accidents.
At least your healthcare system gave us something really good:
Breacking Bad

I’ve actually heard the French healthcare model being touted as a successful alternative to the privatized system of America or to a single-payer government model.

Obviously it sounds like it’s good for you at the one-person micro level, could you explain how well it’s working at the national level? Are there any major issues or problems you know about with it?