Obamacare is kind of like the weather -- everyone talks about it, but how many of us really understand it. Can explain it to the unconvinced?
Here's some folks who have tried to explain to their readers, the many, many benefits of Obamacare:
Five reasons Obamacare is already good for America
by Catherine Poe, WashingtonTimes.com -- July 5, 2012
Obamacare is now the Republicans’ biggest headache. And no amount of aspirin will help. It just gets bigger, and after the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare constitutional and Americans have looked more closely at what it means for them, they are beginning to like what they see and are interested in getting even more of the good stuff.
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1. No more Freddie the Freeloaders allowed.
2. Obamacare will reduce the deficit.
3. Health care costs for young Americans won’t skyrocket.
4. Millions of jobs will be created.
5. It will be cheaper for employers to provide health care.
5 reasons ObamaCare is already good for you
by Sally Kohn, FoxNews.com -- Mar 28, 2012
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Never mind the fact that the central component of the law was a Republican idea. Conservative ideologues are willing to sacrifice much-needed health care reform and the well-being of millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance or are being denied care because of pre-existing conditions, lifetime caps on spending or other injustices -- all for the sick goal of undermining President Obama.
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1. Millions of Americans have already benefited from ObamaCare
2. The law won’t fully take effect until 2014
3. The individual mandate was originally a Republican idea.
4. The Congressional Budget Office recently cut health care reform’s cost estimates.
5. Something had to be done about health care
And that's what conservative publications have grudgingly posted about Obamacare ...
Here are some reasons why Obamacare is better, from a not-so-conservative source:
10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What's Really In It
by Joshua Holland, AlterNet.org -- July 3, 2012
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And here's the kicker: Kaiser found that the most popular parts of the law were also the ones most Americans weren't aware of, and vice-versa. Almost everyone knows about the mandate, which most people don't like, but fewer than half of those polled knew about the law's tax credits for small businesses that offer their employees coverage, a provision that eight out of 10 people liked when they heard about it.
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1. People Will Be Getting Checks
2. The Richest Americans Are Going to Pay More Taxes
3. Insurers' Overhead – and Profit Margins -- Are Limited
4. Much Ado About the Mandate
5. And Nobody Ever Talks About the Employer Mandate
6. Shaves the Deficit
7. [Women] Will Dig This
8. New Dollars for Community Health Centers
9. Essential Benefits
10. It's Not So Easy to Repeal
Here's a few more good reasons why Obamacare is better, just off the top of my head:
A) Despite Mitt Romney's not so-clever quips to the contrary, Emergency Room Care is the most expensive, least preventive Health Care, for a Nation to rely on.
B) Despite Mitt Romney's quick reversal to contrary rules, Insurance Companies who Drop people, or refuse to cover people, due to Pre-existing Conditions -- is Not really a viable way to provide effective Health Care.
C) No longer will we need to haggle with insurance companies -- since they No longer CAP the Benefits you receive.
D) No longer will 120 people a day -- 45000 a year -- have to die in America, for the appalling lack of adequate preventive Health Care.
Of course, all this will be moot IF Romney gets elected. Mitt has promised to Repeal Obamacare on Day One.
And his die-hard supporters will no doubt demand it. It seems they are just fine with going to the Emergency Room for their Health Care needs. I guess that's what it means to be a compassionate-conservative in 2012 America.
Go figure ... Romney-Republicans certainly haven't.