03-27-2012, 07:59 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
My healthcare costs are still going up faster and faster. Is that caused by the law ?
No. It's caused by what the law did NOT address. Waste, stupidity, greed, and manipulation of medicine by ignorant and uncaring governments and businesses.
You really aren't familiar with this law at all are you?
It addresses very specifically a multitude of problems that lead to higher costs.
You are using emotion and hyperbole to describe the problems, I'm not agreeing with your characterization, just the reality that there are serious inefficiencies and some profit motive that is harmful to consumers.
also, I mentioned above that there ARE religious exemptions in the bill. However, as a society (through legal expression in courts, yes, that's how we put weight behind our values) we acknowledge the good and benefit of health care, we don't acknowledge that going without it is a societal good. Sorry Christian Scientists. They can fight their $95 annual penalty in court if they are among the 3% of Americans who might be subject to it.