Healthcare

HEALTHCARE 2010

I would suggest at this time all citizens whether they approve or disapprove of the 2010 healthcare bill reflect upon our history. As President Obama recently pointed out, when the Social Security Act of 1935 was passed under the Roosevelt Admn. and Medicare was passed in 1965 under President Johnson, numerous lawsuits in each case followed. As new proposals often are, both acts were very controversial and disturbing to the status quo as the Health Care bill is today.

However, surely under the system of laws by which we live, a bill duly passed by the people’s U.S. Congress and signed by the President cannot be turned on it’s head simply because there is a sizeable number of legislators and citizens who disagree with it. Angry words of protest are staged over the stipulation that a penalty may have to be paid in lieu of not carrying health insurance. Such protest may be understandable, except where is the hue and cry when we are required as drivers to buy automobile insurance?

For those who have the benefits of Medicare and Social Security or have financially benefited because your parents have had such coverage, may I respectfully suggest you carefully consider what your cost would have been without it. I’m simply hoping for a more gracious granting of health coverage to 32 million more people.

As in 1935 and 1965 economic nay sayers and lawsuits were in abundance as they are today. The same president and congress who tell us we are going to spend as many years in Iraq and Afghanistan as necessary have also told us the American people are entitled to the health care that they need.

Buz Cormany
York Twp.