Yeah so a variety of other homework for tomorrow means that this will be another not funny post, but I'll try and get something good in next week. So for this week my topic is Hillary Clinton's proposed healthcare plan. She recently revealed that it would not cover immigrants and would be solely for American citizens, which I personally did not even know was an issue, I just assumed this would be the case. Assuming that her fundraising techniques provide enough money to support this plan, I would honestly like to hear people come up with reasons for why Clinton's healthcare plan would not be good for America. Since we all sort of get the idea of what a healthcare plan would do, I'll spend the rest of this post answering a couple of the most common negative responses to national coverage.
I'll start off this part by saying that I think we can all agree that having some sort of coverage is better than having no coverage at all, right? Like even if you had to wait two months for a checkup, this would be better than never going to get a checkup at all? I'll go ahead and assume that we are all cool on that issue. So that sort of answers the common complaint that "I know so-and-so person who lives in European Country X who offers healthcare, and they had to wait 4 months to check out her rash and then they found out it was really bad and needed some sort of surgery (why would a rash ever need surgery? I don't know. But it must have been a pretty freaking intense rash. Like the kind I told Ferris that Greg had last year on the first day of school) which then took another 3 months to schedule and blah blah blah. OK, yeah, it sucks that this person had to wait so long to get the gross rash checked out, but its better than never having it checked out at all, right? And its not like this person is being forced to wait if they have the personal wealth to have their own private insurance, because Clinton's plan allows you to keep your personal provider. Another big issue in the past has been people talking about how those who don't even contribute to the system will be getting all the benefits, so they were obviously talking about immigrants. Well, Hillary cleared that one up pretty clear didn't she? I'm sorta getting lazy here in thinking of other arguments against it, but if you bring one up I'll promise to address it in the comments.
Also the South Florida Bulls make me cry. Oh well, back to the old plan. UCLA for Pac-10 Champs!
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Good Job with the post! To tell you the truth, I also never thought that being a citizen or not was a significant issue regarding the universal health care. However, it was a strategic move by Clinton to define the health care plan solely for citizens because she will get a lot of the more conservative liberals on her side.
The rash idea. Well everyone wants insurance and everyone wants to be able to go to the doctor whenever they have a complication. O well
I'm a supporter of Clinton's health care plan -in theory - but I'm still not sure how well it will work in practice. One of the problems with the cost of health care is that undocumented people go to the ER and cannot pay because they have no insurance. Hospitals are still going to be going to be under this type of stress, even if Clinton's Plan goes through. I donno... I think that we need some kind of major revision in our policy concerning illegal immigrants. There needs to be some more organized way for these people to come over, and people need to understand that one way of looking at it or another - these undocumented laborers are important contributors to our economy. Do we take advantage of their cheap labor and then pay extra in taxes to cover their health and education expenses - or do we pay them higher wages and pay less in taxes to cover their public service expenses? I don't think this whole Health Care thing can work out without some Immigration reform.
I agree with Shawdi- making the health care plan strictly for citizens will help her get more conservatives on her side.
Like Eric said, a checkup, even if it takes a while to get, is still a checkup. It something that will happen, maybe not in the preferred timeframe, but it doens't change the fact that at least something will be provided. Everyone wants to feel safe and know that their health will be cared for. Cost is always a difficult problem for any suggested plan, regardless of what it calls for. I guess we'll just have to see how this one plays out.
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