Obama's health care reform is, in its most basic form, an attempt to do away with for-profit hospitals and over expensive health insurance. Right now having health insurance is a choice, whether you have it or not is your choice but if you need massive surgery and you don't have insurance, the bill is for you and it won't matter to the hospital if you need to sell everything you have to pay it. People who do have insurance right now pay like 200 dollars or more a month and if they need and send the bill to their insurance company, they get hit with the coverage book and 10.000 excuses for why they don't want to pay it for you. In other words, if the hospital isn't profit oriented, the insurance companies are.
Obama's intention is to set up national health insurance with fair prices and no 'we don't cover this because of this and this and this' bullshit. That and every single person has to have health insurance by default, no exceptions. I've heard things about doing away with private hospitals completely as well but I dunno about that.
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