Nurses, are you glad that Obamas Healthcare Bill Passed?

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  1. Are you glad that the Healthcare Bill passed?

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      Yes
    • 836
      No
    • 301
      Not sure

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If we can afford sending troops to war, we can afford this.

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Sometimes doing nothing, and gathering more support/research/money, is better than doing something.

I disagree big time.

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No, along with most of the country. We all (including our children and grandchildren) will pay dearly for this folly if it is not reversed soon. Generational theft at its finest. Praying for a big change in November! Lots of pink slips to give out...

I strongly disagree. I voted Yes. The US is one of the riches countries despite the finiacial issues that have occured. There is no poor, middle class, and upper class anymore. There's just rich and poor. And those who do work wheter F/T or P/T are paying deductibles that are that are sky high. There's families out there that have experienced lay off's and PINK SLIPS, that need assistance for a mother/father or grandparent. Theres famlies out there that have children with debillitating diseases that work day & night and still dont have enough. Single mothers/ fathers that hope and pray that a burden is "Lifted of them". So I comend all the Families out there for workin hard during this time in struggle. I hope others open their eyes and stop being selfish and give something else a try for ONCE! Sick=Help

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You call $605,000,000 (2010 est) 'nonexistent'?

The Health Care bill is a major boost to NJ.

New Jerseyans will no longer have to fund charity care for the uninsured.

It will help create jobs.

It will help decrease taxes.

Yes, some parts of the bill could be improved but as a whole it's a good start.

I'm sorry, I missed something. Can you please explain how it will create jobs and decrease taxes??? Won't it increase taxes because the money has to come from somewhere?

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If we can afford sending troops to war, we can afford this.

Two totally different things here, and moneys come from different areas. Also I believe that Obama was the one that said we were getting troops out of war, yet haven't.

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Specializes in telementry, medsurg, icu, surgery.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE...I DO believe ALL Americans should have some sort of healthcare reform, BUT...I AM NOT WILLING TO SACRIFICE MY BELIEFS TO GIVE IT TO THEM IN THIS MANNER!!!!

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Specializes in IMCU/Telemetry.
You call $605,000,000 (2010 est) 'nonexistent'?

The Health Care bill is a major boost to NJ.

New Jerseyans will no longer have to fund charity care for the uninsured.

It will help create jobs.

It will help decrease taxes.

Yes, some parts of the bill could be improved but as a whole it's a good start.

While 605m$ sounds like a lot of money, it's not. In north NJ, all the hospitals around mine recive zero charity care dollars. Also the hospitals that recive the most, a number have just shut down..

As for the fed supplying the service, what makes you think they will be any better. You will have long lines and poor service.

I am from Europe, and have seen this first hand. You really don't want it.

It is too slow, poor service, too expencive, and will have too litle say in our health care..

Just Remember, You get what you vote for..

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I voted yes, her is why my mom was had kidney failure and was sick with nothing but Medicaid and Medicare her spouse struggle to take care of her the best he could, he didnt know what to do, but due to the financial hardship the hospital talked him into placing his wife into hospice and NO! he wasnt ready, she was taking out of her nursing home, not given treatment, they gave her morphine and water and waited for her to die. None of her wishes was fufilled in that she spent her last days crying in a hospice bed I want to go home. If she had more insurance she would have been able to afford treatment that would have spared her life or given her husband more time to come to terms with her illness. We often see death and take out the care and love the other person family maybe experiencing, I for one and in support of Hospice however, I believe that Hospice should not be used as an alternative to people that do not have health insurance and this is what things have resulted to. I would never want to be the person to say it is another person time to die because society can't afford to give you treatment to live. I believe (and yes this is just my opinion) that this country will always suffer a financial hardship and as time marches on if it isnt healthcare it would be some other major issue, at least this way people have health coverage. Once we overcome this recession do you really think the hospitals will tell you the truth? I for one do not think so, most employers are looking at this from the point of view that if they can operate on this staff to pt ratio why not continue at it we dont have to say anything it is less nurses to pay and they can obvisouly do the work. I just wish that as healthcare reform has taken place that each state will establish a safe pt to nurse ratio to go along with it, open up more influences to allow more to teach and keep the insurance company as well as the hospitals (employers)honest. but we will see.

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Specializes in Acute Rehab, Renal, Nrsg ED.

It is Tort Reform that we need, not healthcare reform. Perhaps there are a few, specific areas in need of reform within the insurance industry (e.g. the expense of pre-exisiting conditions), but this bill is either the precursor to single payor healthcare or a ruse for insurance companies increasing their profits without the American people being any the wiser (or healthier) for it.

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Healthcare reform is a complete takeover of our system, not reform of it. This type of change is a disaster. Some change is not better than none. Our premiums will rise, not fall (and you see it already). It was plain and simply a takeover of 1/5th of our economy. When have Government programs ever worked properly? If they really wanted to help the uninsured, they could have simply paid for their health insurance premiums. Would have saved us billions. The goal wasn't to help the uninsured, it was to destroy capitalism and have more power over us.

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Specializes in NICU. L&D, PP, Nursery.
While 605m$ sounds like a lot of money, it's not. In north NJ, all the hospitals around mine recive zero charity care dollars. Also the hospitals that recive the most, a number have just shut down..

As for the fed supplying the service, what makes you think they will be any better. You will have long lines and poor service.

I am from Europe, and have seen this first hand. You really don't want it.

It is too slow, poor service, too expencive, and will have too litle say in our health care..

Just Remember, You get what you vote for..

If these problems occur (and I think they will), who will we complain to? We won't be able to complain to the government. Who regulates, oversees, or disciplines the federal government?

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Specializes in Geri-psych Nursing.
Healthcare reform is a complete takeover of our system, not reform of it. This type of change is a disaster. Some change is not better than none. Our premiums will rise, not fall (and you see it already). It was plain and simply a takeover of 1/5th of our economy. When have Government programs ever worked properly? If they really wanted to help the uninsured, they could have simply paid for their health insurance premiums. Would have saved us billions. The goal wasn't to help the uninsured, it was to destroy capitalism and have more power over us.

In my opinion, the change that needs to happen is NOT to pay the obscene health care premiums for people who can't afford them but to hold insurance companies to their end of the bargain. Anybody else who makes you a promise, takes your money, and then fails to honor the agreement is called a thief. Health insurance is just one more example of how no agency can be trusted to police itself. They don't want to make sure you get medical treatment; they want to make money. Part of this reform, if I understand it correctly, is that insurance companies will have to spend 85% of what they collect on medical treatment and services, or reimburse it. That would be a switch...

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