[/caption]GHN News - While the Republicans put the health care debate on hold,
in memory of the dead and the wounded from the Arizona mass shooting,
the healthcare bill remains part of the angry rhetoric, and according to
some doctors that's because of the misinformation.
According to Dr. Joel Rudin, a professor in the Management and EntrepreneurshipDepartment in the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, the health care reform will be good for Americans. They just not have the information they need to have to know what it's all about.
“My health insurance is unlikely to
improve thanks to health care reform. Why? Because my health insurance
is already really good, and if I am ever dissatisfied with it then once a
year I can switch over to another really good health insurance plan.
Why is my health insurance so good? Is it because I earned it by
committing a feat of bravery? No, it's because I work for the State of
New Jersey. So many employees work for the State of New Jersey that it's
worthwhile for health insurance companies to compete against each other
for our business, which means that we get lower rates and better
service than if we worked for Fred's Garage with 20 employees,” Rudin
said.
He goes on to say, “Under health care reform,
most Americans will have health insurance that is similar to my health
insurance, but that won't happen until 2014. By then, the people who
came up with this idea may have been voted out of office. If that
happens it will be their own fault for failing to explain to the
American people how much better and cheaper their health insurance will
be.”
These are the highlights Rudin has assessed and what he says of the health care changes:
"1)
Most Americans will have better and cheaper health care in 2014 than
they have now, while few if any Americans will have worse or more
expensive health care in 2014 than they have now.
2) Businesses with
fewer than 50 employees will have a much easier time recruiting and
retaining employees starting in 2014 thanks to health care reform.
3)
It's good that every American will have to sign up for health insurance
or pay a fine, as health care reform would otherwise collapse.
4)
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that health care
reform will pay for itself and even generate a surplus for the
government.
This journalist read all 900 pages during the debates
after the bill was passed last year. The issue again is the
misinformation, the loud, angry rhetoric that covered up the modest
examination of the bill that people needed to do. With name-calling
tactics, the best might never have come. And if it begins again with
the label of socialism and the fear and the rage that blocked the
information, the best might never remain.
