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Anonymous (reply to Jennifer Jaff)

A new report (as of this week) suggests that 30% of companies will drop their insurance and pay this fines forcing workers into the "Obamacare" (mostly cause paying the fine is cheaper than paying for insurance). I dislike the way you to dismissed someone's comment pure propaganda w/o explaining its propaganda. Saying someone is wrong doesn't make you right, unless you back up your claim. I have govn't health care, I'm retired military and i can tell you that getting anything done (including simple referrals to GYN) is a hassle and can be a LONG process. I've been waiting for 2 months for a necessary surgery to be approved, my health care is already rationed. Also be careful with your claims in the piece: the ACA "encouraging" funding for aggressive research does NOT mean that the aggressive research WILL happen. It means it COULD. While the ACA "authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to fund efforts to educate and train health professionals in pain." There is not dollar amount allocated, no actual funds and no minimum of people they want to educate. They could educate ONE person or ONE office and declare the program a success. Please keep in mind that legislation is an idealized form of reality; all or none of these things could come to pass. And a simple vote to defund the program and the ACA is DOA w/o repeal. While we can remain hopeful lets not get too far ahead of ourselves and blindly assume that a govn't program is actually going to achieve its goals. In face of the debt crisis, there are likely to be cuts and the easiest cuts are to programs that are barely on their feet.
Kim in Dallas

June 11, 2011 - 12:14pm

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