by Little Momma

Created on: August 22, 2009   Last Updated: August 23, 2009

What's so wrong with health care for everyone? Why are Americans in such an uproar over health care reform? Are we really willing to tell people, that they aren't entitled to affordable, quality health care? It would seem so, Americans are becoming more and more disenfranchised about health care reform, and are somehow being led to believe complete lies about what health care reform really means.

According to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, "There is strong support in the House for a public option,...to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice, and expand coverage." I bet that statement never made its way onto Fox News.

I don't pretend to know everything included in the health care reform bill, but I know enough to know that our government isn't going to stop caring for the elderly, or create "death panels", use public health care as a way to pay for abortions, allow illegal immigrants to be covered through a public option, or tell the public who has a right to health care and who doesn't. Why are so many Americans buying into these lies? Have we become a nation of gullible, misinformed, irrational people? I'd like to think not, but as the health reform bill gains more and more media coverage, I see more and more people acting like idiot's over something they obviously haven't bothered to really learn about.

So, what's really included in the health care reform bill? What does President Obama really want to do for Americans? Well, according to Whitehouse.gov: No discrimination for pre-existing conditions, no exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays, no cost-sharing for preventative care, meaning that insurance companies must pay for preventative care, no dropping of coverage for the seriously ill, no gender discrimination, no annual or lifetime caps on coverage, extended coverage for young adults, and guaranteed renewal. Now what is it that Americans are finding so horrible about any of these reforms?

What we should really be asking ourselves, is do we have the right to tell our fellow citizen's that they don't deserve to have health care, if they can't afford it, or have an illness that insurance companies won't cover? If the lady who lives next door to you has cancer, yet she doesn't have health care, would you be willing to tell her that she's just gonna have to die, because you aren't willing to help? I seriously doubt it.

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