Protest for Single Player Universal Health Care

A Protest filled with Excitement, anxiety, and disagreements over the major Health Care Plan was taken place at a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Supporters  of single-payer universal healthcare—the system favored by most Americans—continue to protest their exclusion from discussions on healthcare reform. On Tuesday, five doctors, nurses and single-payer advocates were arrested at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, making it thirteen arrests in less than a week. 

Obama's plan to restructure the US nation's health care system is one step closer to being fulfilled after the pivotal Senate Finance Committee approved legislation on Tuesday requiring nearly all Americans to purchase insurance and ushering in a host of other changes to the nation's $2.5 trillion medical system. Some residents, comprised mostly of Republicans, are opposed to this plan.

"The bill includes consumer protections such as limits on co-pays and deductibles and relies on federal subsidies to help lower-income families purchase coverage. Insurance companies would have to take all comers, and people could shop for insurance within new state marketplaces called exchanges.'"

I am neutral about the Universal Health Care idea. It benefits, low-income families, but it also hurts middle-class working families, which I classify with. "Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) pointed out some middle-income families would have to spend $13,000 on health care before qualifying for subsidies. "Those middle class families are going to seek an exemption [from the proposed requirement to acquire insurance] given those costs and be uninsured," he said(CBS News Online). "

I think that Universal Health Care should not be a mandate, but rather a public option. Public option would give the everyone their own personal decision to pursue Universal Health Care or a private Health Care.

 

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