Oh, Mister President....what have you done?

Ok, so this a.m., the new Health Care Reform Bill passed. Can we say no-no?

First off...making health reform mandatory takes away every individual's right to choose for themselves whether they want to provide health care, for themselves. I'm all about live and let live; I'm a libertarian at heart....but when the leader of our country forces us to do something that we either would not have chosen for ourselves or provides it at the expense of tax payers, and then imposes a consequence if this action does not happen, then I have a problem with it. And normally I don't give two shits about politics. Live your life, don't let your decisions impede my happiness or well-being and we're square.

Next we have the issue of whether or not we (as citizens) can afford healthcare. You can? Perfect, here's a plan with a $500 deuctable and a $500 premium...it's only $270 a month. That's half of my rent expense per month. More than half, actually. No thanks. You can't afford that? How about a plan for less than $100 a month? Perfect, your new deductable is $1500 and your new premium is $1000....so either you f*ck me up front or you f*ck me in the end, either way I'm f*cked. Nice....wait, so you can't afford health care at all? No problem, the government will provide it! I'm almost afraid to ask what quality should those on government assistance expect...and pray, tell me how will the government, being what? trillions in defecit, provide health care for it's people? Oh, that's right...there was another tax increase. Which means I get to pay for you to have health care. Fabulous. Because I wasn't paying enough in taxes before. And did the government ASK me first before it took my money and expended it out to everyone else? Newp...not even kinda.

And then there's the how: How exactly are you, Mr. Big Man, going to find out who does and does not have insurance? By expending more money we don't have, creating audits and agencies who review the numbers and names of the millions of American citizens that are now required to have insurance. I see this going from bad to worse, although this may potentially create jobs, I don't see this being a well-oiled machine for years to come, if ever. And I see our deficit getting even bigger in the enactment of this "reform".

Finally, why CAN'T some of these people afford healthcare? BECAUSE IT'S TOO GODDAMN EXPENSIVE TO BEGIN WITH!!!!!!!!! Don't even get me started on the people who won't work and pay for healthcare on their own...Maybe, MAYBE our beloved leader should have reworked the health care *system* instead of doling out health care and calling it reform. Reform, by definition means to re-shape, re-distribute or re-structure. Not "compound an already existing problem and make the repair even more insurmountable." Fix the infrastructure and then it can truly be called reform.

The *only* good thing to this bill would be that health care providers are no longer allowed to deny a person coverage because of existing medical conditions. However! At what expense to the client?

Right intention, wrong way to go about it. I'm actually going to be voting Republican from now on. I don't necessarily agree with all of their standings, but neither do I *really* want to renounce my citizenship and move to Canada.