Health Care Reform Bill Best Option

Health Care Reform Bill Best Option The new U.S. health care reform law was the best option for providing health insurance to the largest number of people while keeping federal government costs as low as possible, according to an analysis by the RAND Corp., nonge a nonprofit policy think tank.

Researchers used a specially designed computer model to simulate more than 2,000 different policy scenarios and found that the only alternatives to the new health reform law were all politically difficult because they would have included much higher penalties for noncompliance, lower government subsides, and less generous Medicaid expansion.

Under the new health reform law, about 28 million Americans will be newly insured by 2016, according to the analysis.

"Of all the proposals on the table that would expand health insurance to more Americans, the final health reform law included those that covered the largest number of people at the lowest cost to the federal government," study author Elizabeth A. McGlynn, a senior researcher at RAND, said in a news release from RAND.

"On balance, the new law appears to have landed on a distinctive plain of the policy frontier where the costs and coverage levels achieved were reasonable enough to secure passage of the law," she noted.

My daughter has type 1 diabetes. She was on Medicaid, nonge but told 2 weeks before her 19th birthday that she would no longer be covered.

She didn't even have a job, so Mary of GA, how does the bill help her?

I want to know why people want to allow the illegals to stay and be patted on the back while our people can't get medical or any other help they need. I bet if you people realized how much these illegals have drained your paycheck that you wouldn't be so wlling to let them stay. I hear reports that there have been those that have been here more than 5 years. Think about all the money that has been spent on them with nothing from them but sales tax. We pay for their kids healthcare, babies being born, kids going to school. I don't mind people coming to our country, but they need to do so legally. For one, our safety is at stake and they need to quit draining the help our own kids need.

How will healthcare be paid for by them? How will they be forced to pay for insurance? Just think of the one child that could be helped if it wasn't spent on them without them even paying taxes?

It's sad that they can get emergency treatment from a hospital and probably can not be contacted again,but if anyone of us goes to a hospital and has an unpaid bill the collectors will be calling and harassing us. nonge I don't expect to go to another country and get health care for free. Why do they expect it from us?