In my opinion, its a bad piece of leglislation because it really doesn't do much. The only thing it primarily accomplished is that it forced everyone to pay the private health insurance companies, with the hope that it will bring down premiums a bit. A public option would have been nice, as that would have been a more direct attempt at bringing it down, but the private insurers of course didn't want that. Instead we get this half-assed compromise that continues to feed these hated insurance companies. So, of course, most people will hate it. Most people do want reform though, and I would even be willing to bet they would have been supportive of it if it had such a public option or even universal care in it. Europeans don't seem to mind it, and would probably even balk at its removal.
One thing people DO like on this health care bill, though, is the outlawing of denial of service for pre-existing conditions, but that could have been accomplished with an exclusive bill.
Aug 12, 2011 @ 22:02:27
