Obama health care law upheld.

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Specializes in Primary Care; Child Advocacy; Child Abuse; ED.

I hope everyone remembers public school. Now go back, remember it was consider something that if you wanted it you paid for it, than there was a ruling it would be available for all. How was it paid? Taxes. Healthcare needs to be available for all. We all pay taxes.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I'm a home health nurse. I like my job, but it doesn't pay much. Hubby works retail, and makes even less than me. His employer only offers a mini-med plan for hourly employees, and it covers less than a catastrophic plan would. I carry the insurance for both of us. I have my employer's second-cheapest plan; it's $5 more per week than the catastrophic plan, but it still costs $700/month. There are weeks when health insurance takes half of my paycheck.

Ironically, we make so little we would qualify for my state's subsidized plan, but only if our COBRA ran out, which means dropping my employer's coverage, then paying double what we've been paying for 18 months.

According to a calculator at the Washington Post's website, Obamacare subsidies would cut my family's health insurance cost by about 50%.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.
Just want to understand how this 'great accomplishment' of Obama's will be funded :/

The same way unnecessary wars and bridges to nowhere are funded.

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Folks, if ever there was a time for nurses to unionize, IT IS NOW!!

If we do not organize, en masse, we WILL be cut from the equation. Hospitals will insist that they HAVE TO deskill nurses' professional practice, and hire HS Dropouts, at not much more than minimum wage, to do our jobs.

We got cut out of the equation in the 1990's, with the advent of, "care re-design", and it has been down hill ever since. We have never recovered.

It is great that the ANA thinks that Advanced Practice nurses will have it great. But what about the rest of us?

We need to claim our piece of the pie NOW, before there is nothing left!!

JMHO and my NY $0.02.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Somewhere in the PACNW

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Think about it...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why some hate it. Who hates it? Rich hospital CEO's, doctors (who aren't so poor themselves), and members of the GOP who hate anything that has Obama even remotely associated with it (even more his trademark mandate). If these upper class people spent a week in the shoes of an underprivileged person, maybe it would open their eyes. If hospitals begin to go awry, analyze how much the CEO is making. I'm sure it's still what he/she made before...and maybe more. Regardless of if you hate Obama or not, the PATIENT PROTECTION and AFFORDABLE CARE ACT is for the good of the common people. :) I congratulate Chief Justice Roberts for getting over party lines to support what is right.

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Specializes in Primary Care; Child Advocacy; Child Abuse; ED.
Think about it...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why some hate it. Who hates it? Rich hospital CEO's, doctors (who aren't so poor themselves), and members of the GOP who hate anything that has Obama even remotely associated with it (even more his trademark mandate). If these upper class people spent a week in the shoes of an underprivileged person, maybe it would open their eyes. If hospitals begin to go awry, analyze how much the CEO is making. I'm sure it's still what he/she made before...and maybe more. Regardless of if you hate Obama or not, the PATIENT PROTECTION and AFFORDABLE CARE ACT is for the good of the common people. :) I congratulate Chief Justice Roberts for getting over party lines to support what is right.

I agree I have friends that have heart conditions they were born with, cannot qualify for healthcare insurance so they don't work because then they would not qualify for state medical benefits. This gives them an opportunity to work and live a regular life that too many take for granted.

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Dub this the nurses bill...this is advocacy, FINALLY, on the part of our legislature for the benefit of our people.

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The same way unnecessary wars and bridges to nowhere are funded.

Actually from what one has read, and could be wrong but the *mandate*, tax or whatever you want to call it for those whom do not have insurance isn't expected to bring in enough money to cover all aspects of the plan. Make no mistake it will bring in billions, but there are other funding sources in the law. Things such as the ten percent tax on tanning salons for instance. Then there are the reductions in Medicare/Medcaid payment rates.

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This is interesting I am from MA. Like mentioned, it is one of the states that it was implemented. Funny enough, I could never find a job in anything even nursing homes, home care, etc. and hospitals still have jobs posted from like years ago they still haven't filled. The state did nothing for my career. I have travel nursing to thank. Of course others can say otherwise. I still have friends that have and are still doing quite well there.

But, just goes to show how well it really went down... It truly makes me wonder.

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This is interesting I am from MA. Like mentioned, it is one of the states that it was implemented. Funny enough, I could never find a job in anything even nursing homes, home care, etc. and hospitals still have jobs posted from like years ago they still haven't filled. The state did nothing for my career. I have travel nursing to thank. Of course others can say otherwise. I still have friends that have and are still doing quite well there.

But, just goes to show how well it really went down... It truly makes me wonder.

With anticipation of the SCOTUS decision regarding Obamacare, MA's law has been in the news media spotlight the past several days. One of the national news programs (ABC?) did a week long series IIRC and the upshot was while "RomneyCare" has been great for residents of MA in some respects insurance costs along with healthcare costs in general have risen across the state, in some cases rather dramatically. It is against that backdrop that the state is trying to make the thing work.

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It's human nature to use more of that which costs you little or nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30use.html

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Yes...so much talk already that this is going to "give hospitals less...etc...thereby they will be hiring less and less people...a race to the bottom...blah blah blah" In what way do the people on the "right" explain this...everybody keeps saying that but none of them have any proof! If the system is now geared(in theory)to help more and more people...common sense( I use that lightly since we are dealing with businesses still) dictates that there will have to be more employees to meet the demand. The ceo's of all these major hospitals will just have to stop being so greedy! They are the ones causing this problem in our country in the first place...not the government. So to all you who feel that this is going to hurt us...tell us why...show us some proof...don't just echo what you heard on foxnewscorp!

so its the fault of the hospitals, someone else thinks its the fault of the government, someone else thinks its the fault of the rich...im happy that this law will hopefully grease the wheels for hiring...but man where is all the entitlement coming from? if a person cant afford health insurance, thats on that person...not anyone else. i do believe there should be a social net...but to say its everyone elses fault but the person who cant find a job that pays well enough to get health insurance...this is america, the right to pursue wealth and the right not to pursue wealth.

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