Well it was only a matter of time before it happened now that health care bill has finally passed. What do you think this means to the American people?

Well, all I can say is thank God that it still has to go thru the Senate. There I do hope that it falls to the ground dead.

We don't need more of something like a new bill.

We just need what we have to be fixed. Added to and built up again.

Not something that will add more taxes and burdens.

Health Care is meant to take care of people. Not be another burden.

::Angel::

I don't see it being as much as a burden as the food stamps system is. You have to make under a certain amount, have a disability, or a lot of kids, or be old to qualify for food stamps. This free health care is not limited in that way so if an upper class person or their child gets ill or injured and for some reason doesn't have insurance from their job, that is a medical expense they don't have to pay for. Canada has it Britain has it countries all over the world have it so why can't we have free health care? The rich get richer and the poor or simply unfortunate just die.....right?

I don't know about what's going to happen when I finally graduate college and get a decent job where I make enough to have to pay taxes but I am barely over the line so I have trouble making ends meet. Will I blame people for being lazy and lament that I am paying for people with my hard earned money at my desk job in the house I am paying to own while those lazy blue collar manual laborers and people who found it hard to go to college too just because their family was poor and had to drop out of school to work to help their families are just having money thrown all over them by the government so they can buy swimming pools and fancy cars and hide them in their run down neighborhoods?

I hope that I don't end up dependent on the government but it would be nice to know that if worst comes to worst and I can't get money from mommy and daddy that I could have a good government to depend on. I can't get money from mom and dad I have to use money while I'm in school to help them because my dad got laid off from a government job and now my moms pregnant and my nine year old littler sister and them have no place to live right now. Growing up we have been on and off of food stamps struggling to get off and stay off but for some reason life always throws yet another curve ball that we didn't see coming. Right now they do need help with food at least. I don't like it but they are on the damn ironically named Independence card again. It is embarrassing to say that it and really strikes a bad nerve with me but so did almost starving when I was in grade school on my mattres on the floor with the cardboard boxes instead of dressers and the understanding why I didn't get anything for Christmas talks.

The health care thing is big for me because I have type one diabetes and I am sure we know that health insurance companies looove people with pre-existing conditions. I have high hopes for a good job when I graduate but if what tends to happen to some people who go to school happens to me then what am I going to do about taking care of myself? I can only get but so many insulin 'samples' from my doctor and then I still have to deal with the things that my fathers insurance still didn't cover anyway when I was on it while having to pay the ever increasing co-pay charges.

I am having trouble trying to understand this contradictory system that screws over the people who are just over that line and knocks back the people who try to reach it by removing their supports when they get to it.

Is there any way this could not be so much of a burden on those already adversely affected by their income taxes? I think there are other ways a country in debt can help pay for this. I thought that the tax on soda was a good idea to help keep it from weighing too much on peoples income taxes but I didn't know paying more for soda would bankrupt people like they are saying in that commercial.

I'm not thrilled about the tax implications of this, but to be honest with you I think anything is better than what we have. My mother died as a result of complications associated with breast cancer 2 years ago. Thanks be to God, health care was not an issue for us, however during the course of her treatment I met lots of people for whom health insurance was an issue.

I've been given the understanding that about 25% of the US population is either without health care insurance, or seriously underinsured. An additional insult is added to the situation when you discover how long it takes for the average American in this 25% category get surgical care or treatment for cancer. When you are trying to fight off the fear of what might happen to your loved one during cancer treatment you divert yourself by speaking to others that share your plight and you check the facts.

On the average people in that 25% category wait about 2 years for surgery and about 183 days for cancer treatment. The general case is one in which these people have to travel through a system designed to: humiliate them by having them prove a condition of helpless poverty, or concede that the underwriter is not liable for the medical procedure that has been prescribed as treatment.

The propaganda about the efficiency of the US health care system is one of the most hideous lies ever told on the planet earth. As a nation we basically look away from the problem, and lie about not realizing that a huge portion of our population is suffering through the horrors of a weak healthcare system. We have: one of the highest infant mortality rates, highest rates of preventable disease, and lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world. When you review and honestly compare our healthcare system to those of the rest of the developed world, we appear to be a third world country. In the history of the world every great empire has offered its citizens a, "value of care." The ancient Greeks educated their citizens, the Romans fed their citizens. Lets give our citizens subsidized medical care; it is a nice safety valve. Desperate people do desperate things, and when it comes to healthcare we have a lot of desperate people in this country.

I have no idea who "Health Care Bill" is... but RIP! :P

It doesnt make me happy one bit.
kinda lazy and dont feel like saying why . but i hate that idea.

Ok this is getting to be very intersting so far! Thank you guys who posted so far I am learning alot about both views on this issue. I do hope for the health care system here to catch up with the rest of the world but I really do hope my president is listening to ways it could be made better. However I do believe that people like Palin are doing more fear mongering than coming up with a real solution. STFU Palin and listen up Obama we need united solutions not stand alone resolutions!

The whole health care system of the US is so messed up and needs a godamn rebuilding, it's a fact.
I feel extremely lucky to live in europe, where the conditions are way more humane.
I also like how so many americans still believe it's worse in other countries, because that's what the media tells them. It's all about manipulation. If you don't believe me do some research before you start flaming me with your patriosm. Even socialist countries like cuba are far superior, it's ridiculous...

I didn't know our health care system was so bad compared to other contries until this became a big deal. Best country in the world huh? This issue puts things in a more global perspective. No one ever seems to get as mad at those sweet sixteen kids for their life of excess as they are that poor people are getting what little help they do get from our current system. We need this more than some seem to realize but I can still also agree that we do need to be careful how we go about this. It's better to measure a thousand times and cut once rather than measure once and cut a thousand times....
please don't let them f this up.

Well didn't pass the senate yet. But I hope that something can get resolved. It's a matter of time when Americans would be all sick . For example the H1N1 ,cancers and etc. For myself I didnt have insurance and I kept out of pocket and still I have a bill left that crazy for a bug bite.

I hope and pray that it gets through the senate. I'm a college student with some chronic health problems and I (and millions of others) really need this health care reform.

Awww cute panda^^ any way as i said before we gotta think this thing through and fix it up a little first then after we do, get any one who still opposes it to admit that they are terrorist! Say you love free health care! say it!