by Ruth A. Sheets
The Supreme Court will be hearing the case against “Obamacare” next week. Representatives from 26 states want the whole program to be repealed. It makes no sense, but the truth is that most of what Conservatives are proposing these days makes no sense.
The health care reform passed two years ago has so many positives that Conservatives should like.
- it requires a continuation of private health insurance
- it provides relief for small business owners who will be able to obtain reasonable coverage for their workers, as well as the self-employed, through insurance plan exchanges
- it allows young people who are not yet employed to remain on their parents’ plans so they can receive health care while they are looking for work
- it relieves hospitals so that they are not primary care for a huge number of uninsured Americans, costs they have to “eat.”
- seniors can receive preventive care which can maintain a greater quality of life
- every citizen will have the opportunity to take responsibility for their own health care and share costs across the whole population
- people cannot be denied care due to pre-existing conditions or conditions that cost too much
Where is the down side? It seems to me that everyone benefits. Maybe that’s the problem. In our form of “free market,” only the wealthiest are supposed to benefit. It is hard for me to believe that all Conservatives are wealthy or even truly imagine that they will be. Why would they want to vote against a program that would directly benefit most of them? I suspect it is because their leaders have christened the program “Obamacare” and the first half of that title is what they are really against, no matter what the cost to themselves and their neighbors.
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