Minorities, Poor People and People in Economic Difficulties receive a lot of Benefit from the New Health Care Law - However many individuals in the Health Care and Insurance Industry can see the benefit for themselves and their Businesses and the Good that it brings to the Nation's Economy.
The New Republic
If These Guys Don't Want Repeal...
January 14, 2011
By Jonathan Cohn - From Wikipedia :
Jonathan Cohn is an American author and journalist who writes mainly on United States public policy and political issues. Formerly the executive editor of The American Prospect, Cohn is currently a senior editor at The New Republic magazine and a senior fellow at Demos
Cohn's writings have especially focused on social welfare and health care. He has been recognized in the pages of the Washington Post as "one of the nation's leading experts on health care policy" and in The New York Times as "one of the best health care writers out there".
From early 2009 through the spring of 2010, Cohn edited and was the primary writer for The Treatment, a blog about health care for The New Republic. In May, 2010, he started a new blog for "The New Republic" called Citizen Cohn. It focuses on domestic policy and politics.
Cohn is the author of a book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and the People Who Pay the Price (2007). In Sick, Cohn advocates for universal health insurance, financed by the government. It presents case studies that demonstrate how America's current system causes even many middle class Americans serious financial or medical hardship. It lays out a history of health insurance in America and points to the record of systems abroad, particularly in France, as proof that universal coverage works.
Some excerpts :
You've heard a lot of complaining about the Affordable Care Act from employers and members of the health care industry. But will they be cheering next week, when House Republicans vote to repeal it? It sure doesn't look like it. As National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, and several other outlets reported this week, most of these groups are ambivalent about repeal and several are speaking out against it.
Among the most outspoken has been Helen Darling, head of the National Business Group on Health, who's been a part of health care debates for as long as I've been covering the issue and had this to say to the Journal: "I don't think we'll get a better solution in the U.S. in our lifetime ... If it gets repealed, or gutted, we'll have to start over and we'll be worse off." As David Wessel, the column's author, concluded, "Talking about repeal of the health law may be a winning political strategy for Republicans, a rare way to please both workers and business executives. As long as they don't actually succeed in doing it."
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Still, it's a reminder that the Affordable Care Act is not the radical government takeover of medicine right wing critics make it out to be. In fact, as that NPR story makes clear, a lot of these reforms were already underway, even before the Affordable Care Act passed. What the law will do is accelerate and strengthen them, while simultaneously using the financial benefits to help reduce the deficit and to protect more Americans from high medical expenses.
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