Health Care Reform Passes

I really think once we get more jobs out for citizens and lower the unemployment rate this will work out quite well in the end. But really, it's far too early to say for sure. Things like this take years to come into full swing despite being passed.

http://www.cambriabike.com/ This? Cambria Bicycle Outfitters?

Oh, btw

No more private student loans. All student loans will be government based. This was added to the bill at the last minute.

If you are a doctor expect a major pay cut.

Enjoy

I am pretty sure preexisting condition clause kicks in for minors immediately. For adults I think it was 2014? Idk. So yeah we keep dying ^.^ If you want to get it over with my GIF offers free "end of life" services for the nominal fee of all your gil transferred to Leviathan to a char named Aneu. Or you can wait for some Futurama-esque suicide booths which were supposed to have come out already according to the show!

Nope. That's why I'm in favor of what Obama said he would like to do at the State of the Union: have a tax that serves as interest to the banks that received bail out money until they pay it back.

I didn't like it when Bush did it, and I especially didn't like it how the first half of the ~ 700 billion Bush paid out didn't have any conditions with it. I hated how both "had" to do it, and I think that that hatred is, more or less, me confronting the ugly truth that they were indeed "too big to fail." That's why I'm interested in seeing what will happen with this consumer protection agency. Since the "too big to fail" argument forced a bailout, I stopped banking with Wachovia and opened up an account in a community bank, so I'm doing my part to "make them smaller."

I hope they don't malfunction like in the first episode lol.

Local banks have so much better service and less penny pinching policies. As long as they're FDIC covered I think most normal workin folks will be just fine.

You want government run Health Care for all? I am Vet, and I dont want the government to run our Health Care. It sucks really bad.

We going to forced to pay for shitty service

Since college may keep you out of the workforce till your mid-20's, this bill makes it to where you can remain on your parents insurance till you're 26. Don't know if that applies to you, but for some still in school full-time it's pretty nice.

Lol, all loans were already goverment based. Where do you think those commercial student lenders get their money from? They make huge profits out of your tax money, dude.

Seriously, I know this and I'm not even American.

/facepalm

The kicker is, we start paying for it now lol

I dont know why we cant start paying for it in 2014

That post made me /sadface

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319


That site gives a pretty good breakdown of what will happen and when.

One of the big ones in my opinion.

*Insurance companies will be barred from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. Lifetime coverage limits will be eliminated and annual limits are to be restricted.


However there are some additional taxes for people.

*The Medicare payroll tax is raised to 2.35 percent from 1.45 percent for individuals earning more than $200,000 and married couples with incomes over $250,000. The tax is imposed on some investment income for that income group.

Why do my taxes have to go to help people too stupid to move out of the way of a hurricane? They are slow moving and the warning was out for days!

Why do my taxes have to pay for people who were in 9/11? None of my family were hurt in any of that Why should my taxes pay for their "revenge" against whoever did it?

The main issue I hear from the right, is one of personal responsibility. My question is how far would they like to take that? My guess is the above two situations wouldn't have people from the right agreeing with me. They would argue that they fall under the need of a nation to protect it's citizens.

My argument is that the health of a community is similar to the security of one. Battling poor health is a war, and one the American people have been loosing. This health reform bill provides the help we health professionals need. I dream of a day when my emergency room isn't treated like a primary care clinic.

How will more jobs come about with the government bearing down on small business owners, a business with say 5-10 employees isn't exactly cost effective to start up unless you run like part time workers and dont offer benefits, now the government will bear down on places like this.

Say a *** hot dog stand, you employ like 2 ppl who each work part-time, you really going to offer full medical and dental for this loljob?

If they would focus more on the underlying problems like the unemployment rate itself and encourage business more, more people would be carrying insurance anyway.

Another underlying problem with the current system that they could have remedied rather than completely revamping everything:

Medical Malpractice suits, everyone and their mom is so eager to sue because you can get rich as hell for basically nothing... Do away with this philosophy and health care costs itself would decrease drastically. I can understand malpractice suits for something major but seriously, people sue over lame ***and get by with it all the time.

Sorry, you dont know what you talking about. Students arent going to be able to get Loans from Private banks or any other Private Organizations/Corporations, thanks to this bill

Private loans are important to someone like me who can't get much money from the gov b/c of my parents' credit score. If all loans are completely government run, I would only receive 4k a year. 4k a year won't pay for ***.

If it's a government "take over" and it's running everything, why are there still going to be private insurance companies?

You, being a vet, should be aware that there's always private industries providing services. Blackwater might be one you are familiar with, again, being a vet.

Negative one and counting... can IQ go negative?

This comic makes me

Whoa, graphic political cartoons O.O That looks osm.

We really dont know what is going to happen to private insurance companies, they might become extinct thanks to this bill

republican scare tactics Go!!!

A student lender is something entirely different than a private banker. Most individuals can(could) get money from a private banker against wicked interest rates.

Student lenders however get subsidies from the goverment. Student lenders don't do mortgage, insurance or heavy loans. But they still use your taxes to make money of off students.

Or they might do just fine thanks to this bill forcing everyone to buy health insurance. More people in a pool make it easier for them to cover major operations.

Australian Government has been doing student loans for higher education for as long as I can remember. Called the HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme.) Basically it's just a very very very stupidly low interest loan, given only to students studying at Uni. After you finish your degree/course and join the workforce, you start paying it back (at a very sustainable rate.) The government gets a more productive workforce without having to spend any money (they get it back, with interest.)

One of the big complaints I hear from American Uni/College students is about how massively expensive their student loans are and how they don't have any money to do anything.

Is the government going to be charging more interest than the current private rate? If not, why is this a bad thing? More people being able to afford education would make your nation smarter (and therefore, IMHO, better.)

republican or not he has a point.

S'okay, we already were beforehand.

On that note I, for one, would probably live underground if I had to coexist with dinosaurs. Extinction is a neat term to apply to this situation. I'd build my cave so I could pull the underground crops down through my ceiling.