Health Insurance: Conservatives vs. Liberals

     Having good health insurance is very important anywhere.  Had my family not had good health insurance for all the surgeries I had to have, then I would be suffering from facial paralysis and most likely deafness in my right ear.  If Nikki White, a college graduate who had lupus, could afford health insurance then she would not have died from a disease that can usually be treated when given access to proper care.  We are the richest nation in the world with the best doctors and hospitals yet we cannot provide all of our citizens with health insurance.  Almost 2 million people go bankrupt each year in America from medical bills.  No other country’s citizens go bankrupt from medical issues.

     The very liberal beliefs on health care is that health insurance should be provided for everyone.  It should be like car insurance.  It should be something you must have.  They believe that all people should be provided with the same health care benefits regardless of their ability to pay.  They support low-cost government controlled health care.  

     The super conservatives believe in the free market health care system.  They think health care should be privatized so everyone does not have the same "poor-quality" health insurance that would be given if it was controlled by the government.  They think that the problem of uninsured individuals should be solved through the free market health care system, not by the government. 

     Arizona and Oklahoma are the first two states to try to nullify the part of the new health care reform bill that requires everyone to get health insurance.  They want to prohibit the government from making everyone get health insurance.  The only way that this reform bill will be beneficial to everyone is if everyone has to have it.  That is how they plan to keep the cost per individual as low as it can be.  The reform bill will not be beneficial at all if Arizona and Oklahoma nullify that part of the reform bill.