The health care vote is tonight @ 9:00 pm. It will become law when the pres signs it
 

Hello,


The health care vote is tonight around 9:00 pm.
The president will address the country afterwards.


Here is what takes effect immediately after the president signs it into law:
hhttp://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0320/Health-care-reform-bill-101-How-long-will-reform-take




Other things will take effect as late as 2014.


M.

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It passed.

M.

Mari, Don't it have to go to Senate now before the president signs it?

barbara

Dear Barbara,
 

1. This law started in the Senate and got finished in the House tonight.
It will be law when it is signed.
The president will sign soon.


2. The Senate and the House are going to make some adjustment to that bill regarding things having to do with money. That will be a second law.


M.

Dear Mari
 

It sure did pass,and it's about time. The insurence companies where sending out their propaganda by phone messages.

It's a good deal,and the President said it was also common sense. BF:Excited::Dancing-Chilli::Dancing-Chilli::Dancing-Chilli::Head-Spin: I hope that the insurence companies are put into their place. They have been out of order for years.

I'm personally glad it passed.

I am worried though about the expense of it to taxpayers.

Donna

Dear Donna,
It is going to save the country money.

M.

help?
 

I am glad for this is going to help out the health system and help us out. But the issue to me is according to the laws that will take place,2014 one of them states that you will be penalized if you do not have health insurance. That bothers me because what if you are homeless on the streets. They are going to have to pay for penalty? I think this is taking away freedom and also I think that is TOO MUCH CONTROL. What if an individual decides they do not believe in having health care so they decide to live their life with out health care or insurance.

I feel that the freedom of this country is at stake. There are populations that does not at all, do health care.

That is all. I have a bit of a conservative side of thinking because of how I was raised so forgive me if I was offensive and sound a bit ungrateful for this. But I am not sure who is paying for this. I try reading about this and listening on the news but I am having a hard time comprehending a lot of it.

I hate my learning disability.

Why is this change so scary to me? My parents tell me it is bad that this is happening. I need help to understand what is going on a little better.
Can someone help me :)

Sharla

Hey Sharla. I have learning disabilities too. I hate them,and I had to go to Prep schools because of them.

I decided that I would not listen to much news today,because I knew that all of the people against it where going to scramble the circuits,and cause fear. These kind of reports on the news seem to get worse every year. They give opinions as though they are facts,but many of them are not facts,but a bit of the truth,turned into a opinion. Some of those things are stirred up by the lobbiests.

I aggree with you about not making it into law to be made to get insurence. They will have the poor in court all day,every week day of the year. Who knows what they will do with the street people. They will probably ignor the street people. I don't like the idea of them making another blanket law over all of us either. They seem to be making new laws every couple of months now. They are adding up. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Sharla,

This argument comes down to whether a person trusts the government or not. I trust government.

Massachusetts has universal health care that was enacted in 2006 under Mitt Romney.
It is essentially the same health plan that will be signed into law tomorrow by Obama.
People in Massachusetts like their health care.

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According to the new plan that the prez will sign on Tuesday, everyone will be required to buy insurance by 2014 or face a fine.
Poor people will be exempt.


Most likely they will be fined.
People will have to buy insurance.
This plan only works if everyone has insurance in one form or another.


I do not get upset by talking about this, but I feel very strongly that people will get used to this idea and find that the plan is a very good thing.

This law will reduce health care costs and save our country billions of dollars.
The independent Congressional Budget Office has done the math.


Other questions?

M.

Thank you Mari. You are so well informed,and have done your homework. That brings clarity,in the middle of all of the propaganda.

I've been staying away from what people are saying on the news. It just gets me all worked up,and I've been worked up enough in my life.LOL So I dodged the news,to here the facts brought out in peace,and clarity.

I have recieved several phone calls,and they where announcements,or people wanting me to get my representative to vote a different way,but I emailed my representative to vote for the healthcare proposal. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Good for you.
I would have emailed as well. :D

M.

I think that this also brings forth the Mental Health Parity that was voted for late last year. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Dear Friend,

I researched the Mental Health Parity act and found it confusing because states were allowed their own version.

I have not researched the new plan re mental health.
I will soon.


M.

Question, my husband says deep in the paperwork, there is wording that
people who are landlords will be paying more. I personally haven't seen
this, but it really puts a damper on us. Because we have many and aren't
raising our rents so that we can afford this.

It will make it necessary from his point of view to get rid of the houses.

Donna

Dear Donna,


This applies to couples filing jointly who make more than $250,000 a year.



http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html


M.

OMG Joen Biden dropped an F-Bomb!!! At :06 seconds into this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBwTEeE_RIk

I am stunned! LOL! But laughing at the way he did it. :)

Hi, Pam,

It's pretty much what a lot of people wanted to say into an open mic!!!

M.

I know! LOL!!! Just couldn't believe my ears!! LOL!!! :D

Thanks for all the information.

Donna

Hello,
 

The House and Senate approved the fixes to the health care bill.
The prez will sign it in a few days.

Very Happy.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,7595392.story


M.