Health Care Reforms

The issue of health care and the establishment of this new reform is something that I've always been on the fence about. I think for some people it may be too good to be true and for others it may be just be a bunch of bull. Coming from a conservative family, it's rare that I hear positive things about new policies or reforms that the Democratic party want to enforce. A lot of people in my family are so right-winged that they don't want to believe the democrats could enforce something so beneficial but after going through this session I really think they could. This SEEMS like a really great reform program. After listening to Gail's story and several of the other stories from people in states where parts of the reform have already been to take off, this program seems like it could be a miracle to a lot of people. I didn't really know much about health insurance since I'm under my parent's so I didn't know about the lifetime limits, the cancellation of your insurance, discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions, or annual limits. However, like I mentioned earlier, this could just be something too good to be true so people will be in favor of it before all of the cons of the reform take action. Like Frake said in one of the articles we had to read "There is a lot in the rest of the bill that is incredibly onerous," he said. "You have heard very little about these things that are upcoming."

Why you believe people are poor in the United States? It's a money issue. There are tons of contributing factors such as lack of education, lack of skills, housing, etc. However, just imagine if poor people had money; well, they wouldn't be considered poor.

What you think is being done about poverty? There are plenty of things that have been done and are being done however poverty isn't an issue in itself-it's an issue within issues within issues. Those issues are being acknowledged b/c poverty can't be fixed directly; it just can't.