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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Health Care in The United States of America


Finally, A Health Care Plan for The United States of America!

I have been watching the long and drawn out process in The United States as they have tried to work toward a health care system that they could be proud of. I have been asking myself just how do you call yourself the greatest country in the world, and yet your citizens are dying because they cannot get full cover health insurance; or the health insurance they do have has so many exclusions as to be useless?

Why has that situation gone for such a long time without the government having done something to rectify it? Both Democratic and Republican Presidents have looked at the problem, sniffed around it; some have made an attempt to have a go at fixing the problem, but the present President Obama committed his party to getting the job done.

On Tuesday, the 23rd March, 2010, history was made as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2010 was signed into law by President Obama. Now, everyone in the United States, except illegal immigrants will have access to life saving health care. (This was also my daughter’s birthday, so a very appropriate day for such an important event.)

I would say Well Done America, except that would not be true when the entire Republican Party voted against the Bill. I am unable to say that they all believed it was a bad Bill, but this we do know for certain: It was a Democratic initiative, not a Republican one, and that’s the whole problem with the American system of politics. Party politics wherever practised puts party before country, and far too often the country suffers.

America! It was absolutely disgraceful and an abomination that you couldn’t have done the right thing and put in place a National Health Plan sooner so that annually, 100,000 citizens might not have died due to a lack of medical care. It didn’t have to be a perfect plan, but it had to be a useful program that would act as a lifeline for those in need.

Finally, a giant step forward has been taken, and all American residents will benefit. It is a great legacy for President Obama, who may yet turn out to be the greatest President of them all. America’s gamble has worked, in that the country chose the best candidate for the job. This is an important strategy for the future that any country should follow.

Congratulations! President Obama. We will now see a knock-on effect as other countries around the world follow your example. It is that important!

Copyright © 2010 Eugene Carmichael