It will cut the deficit by $127 billion and increase the number of the insured to 94 percent of Americans.
It will lower out of pocket costs for most Americans.
It will cover more poor people
It will help seniors by lowering drug costs—see below.
It will also take too long to phase in, not cover as many people as it should, and not do enough, at least at first, to control costs.
But the alternative is doing nothing for the foreseeable future.
What the opponents of health care reform never seem willing to consider is the cost of doing nothing.
“Among the range of options for health-care reform, there's one that is sure to raise your taxes, increase your out-of-pocket medical expenses, swell the federal deficit, leave more Americans without insurance and guarantee that wages will remain stagnant.
“That's the option of doing nothing, letting things continue to drift as they have for the past two decades as we continue to search in vain for the perfect plan that would let everyone have everything they want and preserve everything they already have while getting someone else to pay for it.”
-Steve Pearlstein, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072102961.html?hpid=topnews
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