The influences of the US Health Reform Program
The influences of the changing health care and the reform will be far reaching. It is certainly going to affect the millions of Americans who are not covered under any kind of insurance and have to depend completely on the state funded hospitals. Also, for those individuals who are unemployed or who want to buy insurance but a previous existing disease does not allow them, this will be emancipation.
They will be able to free themselves from the shackles of not having insurances for themselves and being caught in the negative downward spiral. With improved access to healthcare and medical facilities more people will be healthy and productive. This will allow them to go back to work and therein increase the GDP of the country.
Although not many people are sure of how the new health care reform will affect them individually. The haves will certainly have to give more and the have-nots will gain and benefit from that. A lot of people are banking on the bill in order to be able to get better medical facilities for themselves. This is certainly an extremely ambitious of reform Health bills ever passed in the 40 year history of the country. This is going to bring about the long needed and awaited change in the system.
The medical fraternity is worried about the impact all people getting insured all of a sudden have on the kind of medical facilities provided. Almost 1.2 million people are uninsured at the moment and all of them getting medical insurance all of a sudden is certainly going to put a whole lot of pressure on the medical machinery. Also, doctors might not accept some kinds of insurance which they are already doing. This will bring the patient back on the doorstep of state run hospitals.
The question that remains uppermost in people’s minds is whether being adequately insured and having an insurance coverage on them will get them health care of the kind needed. Some people have felt that this health reform bill is outrageous as it is going to affect their pockets and freedom too.
It sure is going to stir up a whole lot of feelings and emotions and only time will actually be able to prove its efficacy. Most people are not convinced about it and vow to bring about pressure to change it. They call it the most socialist bill that has ever been passed in the country.
The billions of dollars of new tax that needs to be collected in order to go ahead and fund this mammoth exercise is what causes anxious moments to most Americans. It is still not absolutely clear who will end up paying for the health reforms.
The majority of these new age reforms are not going to come into effect until 2014 and therefore it is a long time away to see whether this gamble with really high stakes of so many millions of people involved in it actually paid off or not.