Friday, March 23, 2012

Do the opponents to The Affordable Care Act actually know what they are talking about?

U.S. Constitution


Article I 



Section 8. 



To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; 


Bankruptcies are the interest of the USA and it is a part of the USA Constitution.  The minimalists of the Right Wing would like to estrange the idea that bankruptcies due to medical costs have nothing to do with the USA Constitution.  Even in applying the idea that the Commerce Clause is not interested in bankruptcies is promoting commerce not beneficial to the best interests of the USA.  


...According to their study, (click here) 46.2% of bankruptcies in 2001 were medically-related, while by 2007 the level had grown to 62.1%, even though bankruptcy laws had become more restrictive in the interim.... 



Directly related to the cost of health care in the USA is the fact our hospitals and physicians have to increase their prices to make up the difference between the income they receive and the income they don't due to the uninsured and/or bankruptcies. I am quite confident the medical society of the USA are not happy about being the focus of bankruptcies in the USA, but, the country is in a vicious cycle of high cost, bankruptcies and increasing costs due to that lost income.  The Affordable Care Act sincerely provides a way to reduce the losses of income to the medical community by having Americans be insured for their health care.  It is one way that will begin to stabilize the cost of health care and begin to bend the cost curve down.


‘Obama Apologists’ (click here)

“That’s the argument advanced by the Obama apologists,” Ed Muise, a lawyer representing Ceci, said in a telephone interview. “It’s utter nonsense to say we can trash the Constitution because there are some people who have had bankruptcies.”