Ok O man, let me say that we're certainly in agreement on many of the points you raised. The system of insurance regulations, loopholes and denial of some claimants rights to treatment even with health insurance have been the cause of many horror stories. These issues could have been addressed by legislation with a set of governmental regulations upon the industry itself without having to generate and create the huge clusterfuck this recently passed bill incorporates.

In every polling of folks here the overwhelming support for certain reforms of the insurance industry was resoundingly stated by the majority. The majority were in favor of new regulations that would end the practice of dropping coverage of insured claimants who became ill, people were in favor of lowering malpractice suit limits and ending the defensive practice of doctors requiring numerous tests prior to surgery or treatment which were required purely as a "cover your ass move" by doctors as a secondary means of protection against malpractice suits, with both of these measures as a means of cost containment on policies, and stopping the denial of treatment by health insurance companies coverage of previously existing injuries and conditions. These issues found almost unanimous support from coast to coast here and had these measures been taken up as the focus of this legislation it would have achieved a lot of positive effects for the bulk of Americans and likely found support by the people on the order of 80% .... but that's not what was legislated.

What was voted in and in many ways DOES result in this legislation being quite correctly viewed as a socialistic attack on the people and the medical community here is a system that does not "provide healthcare for 33 million uninsured Americans with no access to healthcare" as it was touted over and over to be. What was enacted that every citizen is now required to secure insurance coverage which is not the same thing at all.

Many folks currently go without coverage because it's outside the realm of their financial capabilities and not all of them do so because they're currently unemployed, but quite simply because in the choices their income allows them it becomes a decision to keep a roof over their familys' heads or keeping food on the table or buy health insurance that is outside their family budget parameters, they choose the former over the latter. This legislation now takes this choice away from them and will force them to buy health insurance regardless of whether they can reasonably afford to do so or not. Then, if they continue to choose to not buy the insurance they will be hit with a tax penalty that will be attached to their federal income taxes and enforced lovingly by those great folks over at the IRS who can eventually take away the home they chose to pay for instead of buying insurance, garnish their already lacking paychecks to pay the fines, or deduct the fine amounts from any overpayment of income taxes.

While supporters of this bill will point to the tax credits and reimbursement by the govt to many lower wage earners as a means of easing the financial load this requirement forces upon them, what most Americans know is this is aimed much more at people who are already on the public dole in allowing them to basically NOT PAY A FUCKING DIME for their health care insurance and will not realistically have a positive impact on working people who just flat out can't afford the additional expense.

There are so many ill conceived parts of this legislation that stand in stark opposition to the will of the American people that I can do little more than scratch the surface of it all here but let me briefly mention a few more:

1. Doctors, regardless of their specialty, experience or overhead will receive the same amount of payment for treatment of patients (try telling the heart or neurosurgeons who have invested many more years in their education and costs for it how this isn't a socialistic practice, and .... try mentioning how this will in future NOT decrease the number of such medical specialists in these and other special fields of medicine),

2. Hospitals will be required to get federal government approval before any expansion of a facility or before any new medical facility can be built, more socialism!

3. 30% of existing doctors have said these new regulations will lead them to leave the profession altogether. With our medical system already stretched pretty thinly in some areas this will not be beneficial overall and it's also likely these government interventionistic practices will lead fewer people in the future to choose medicine as a career path which will then exacerbate this situation even further.

4. Limits will be placed upon what insurers can charge while also forcing the same insurers to cover more patients at greater overall costs through implementation of the added costs of no lifetime limits on coverage, doctors will still be having to cover their buts by requiring multiple tests prior to surgery or treatment, which adds to the overall costs of treatment and many believe (myself included) the grand purpose and intent behind this is to force insurers out of business with the eventuality of the plan to be that government will then step in and completely take over the health care industry with the federal government as the provider of the health care insurance and the actual health care itself.

5. Several facets of the above will all convergently lead to a totally socialistic system of total control of our health care system at which point the decisions American now have rights to in regard to their own care, level of affordability, choices about treatment etc. is taken out of their hands and placed under total government control which is abso-fuckin-lutely SOCIALIST!

6. Responsible working Americans through increased taxation will now be required to shoulder the burden for even more health care expenses than they currently are paying for a segment of our population that refuses to accept responsibility for their own welfare and choose instead to live off $$ the government takes from the working folks here which is nothing more than a grand scheme of "wealth redistribution", another facet of it that REEKS of socialism!

7. While federal law voted upon many years ago allows women the choice in deciding whether they choose to seek abortion, tax payers have never been required to fund that choice by making funds available for free abortions. This legislation will now change that and the BS presidential order Obama signed as an appeasement move to draw in the last votes required by the pro-life segment of democrats to secure passage of the bill in the House has no actual force on the legislations approval to implement this. Such a decree is not law, laws can only be enacted by congress so this was nothing more than another in the long list of tricks, deals, and bribes that took place in ramming this unwanted legislation through congress.

There's really so much more regarding this legislation that riles the populace here but one facet in particular that's manifested itself in many of the individual states having filed cases against it in federal courts is that this is an area the federal govt has NO AUTHORITY to legislate on by the limited powers as outlined within the Constitution.

Many folks in the know regarding Constitutional Law regard this as a direct and illegal attack upon our system of government intended to move American government and society ever closer to the socialist state the leftists/liberals desire which finds itself severely lacking in receiving support by the bulk of the American population which is far more centrist in nature and as such stand in opposition to this legislation, both before it was voted in and even more so now as more effects are revealed.

One last thought here O man, but it's a pretty reasonable analogy, so I feel it's worth mentioning.

Let's say you're in the market for a new car so you toodle on down to the dealership and find exactly what you want there and sit down with the salesman to get the paperwork done. Everything's all worked out, papers all signed and as you get ready to head home with your shiny new wheeled toy, but when you ask for the keys to your new purchase you're told that you'll be required to make payments for the 1st 4yrs of the 10yr note you agreed upon before you'll have the right to drive that shiny new car. Would you feel like that was a good deal or would you feel like you were gettin screwed by being forced to pay for something for a number of years without even having the use of what you were paying for?

The majority of the American public feels like we've been screwed .... and I'm right there with 'em