Image via WikipediaIn Obama’s plan to reform our healthcare system, everyone must have health insurance. People that cannot afford health insurance will get subsidized coverage.
The reason that this is vital to the plan’s success is that the problem we now have with the healthcare system is the millions of people that have no health insurance but get treated for free in expensive emergency rooms who, by law, have to treat them. Who pays the billions spent on this free care; the people that are insured…us…and therein lies the problem.
Attorney Generals (Republicans) in 20 states have filed law suits in federal court charging that to force people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. They are doing this not because they give a shit about the welfare of the people who would benefit from Obama’s health reform plan, no it is just stupid-ass politics…because they are Republican and Obama is a Democrat.
Many judges have dismissed these suits but there is always one that will want to get their name in the paper. I am confident this suit will make its way to the Supreme Court which should prove very interesting.
Obviously, the Constitution does not say a damn thing about health insurance or health reform; the judges will have to invent reasons for or against, depending on how they translate the intent of the Constitution. This is similar to how different people interpret the Bible; same words, different interpretation.
If the courts decide that the government cannot legally require people to have health insurance than one thing MUST happen to make our healthcare system viable; hospitals, ERs and clinics must have the legal right to turn people without health insurance away. That is correct, let them die in the streets or more kindly, let them go to charity clinics.
Before you judge me severe remember the logic behind requiring people to have health insurance and remember that even people that can not afford the insurance will be taken care of; there is no excuse not to demand full coverage for everyone.
The plan has been tried in Massachusetts so there is precedent but if the Republicans have a better plan, let’s hear it but we all know they have shit; they are all about politics and damn the people’s well being.
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