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What does it matter if people can get insurance if they still can't afford it. People need to stop glamorizing a disastrous health care bill. The bill did not address the out of control costs of premiums or place a cap or even a percentage cap on the premiums. Neither did the Pelosi team even indicate that they ever have any plan of even trying to address that. So there's a bill that requires the insurance company to give people insurance, big whoop-de-doo it doesn't help those who still can't afford it..
I highly doubt that anyone here is glamorizing the bill. The general consensus in this thread is that the health care bill is flawed and does need more work. However, the point of starting this particular thread was to show that despite people's issues with the bill there are provisions in it, as it currently stands, that are indeed beneficial to many people. As I may have stated before, I am an asthmatic and have been one since birth. Insurance companies treat what I have as a "pre-existing condition". The fact that premiums have dropped by as much as 40% in nearly half the states due to the legislation for people with pre-existing conditions is a good thing. And as long as we continue to elect the right people into Congress, we can continue to revise or amend the law so that we can make it more affordable, maybe even establish some kind of single payer system. It may not happen under this deadbeat Congress, but it may happen sometime in the not to distant future.