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.Healthcare Reform—Who should Pay?

I have read many reports about healthcare reform and how it will benefit all Americans by lowering premiums and disallowing insurance companies from raising the prices on insurance policies or restricting coverage for people with preexisting conditions.

The major issue that I have with Obama’s Healthcare Plan is that the proposal suggests that families and who earn over $250,000 to $350,000 will pay the tab for this plan. There is absolutely nothing fair about this plan. If a service is going to benefit everyone in society— then logically everyone in society should help pay for that service to whatever degree that he or she can afford to financially contribute on a sliding scale.

I think that President Barack Obama is making a huge mistake by not increasing taxes for everyone to pay for healthcare form. His current proposed strategy to place the tax-burden only on wealthy families may benefit his reelection in the short-term; but this unbalanced, unfair, and undemocratic strategy is going to hurt the long-term well-being of Americans. The greatest asset of America is the spirit that any person can be, do or have anything with hard work, perserverance and determination. Does this philosophy refer to everything accept—health insurance?

I don’t care if a person works at a fast food restaurant or earns minimum wage; I am quite sure that the average person buys something –no matter how small it is--that is not good for them or goods and services that are not absolutely necessary for their day-to-day survival such candy, gum, pop, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, junk food, movie tickets, designer shoes and clothes, downloading music off the Internet, paying for cable television, purchasing video games and the latest cell phone models—but they can’t help contribute financially to healthcare reform- that will ultimately benefit them the most?

I am very angry over President Obama’s unwillingness to sell healthcare reform to all Americans rich and poor as a necessary commodity that all Americans should contribute to. President Obama should explain to the American people that he is not raising taxes to pay for a war that destroys lives; he is raising taxes so that the American people can contribute to their own overall health and well-being. President Obama should explain to the American public that they are paying for a service that is similar to having paved roads, clean water and free public schools.

President Obama was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and I am quite sure that he understands that the gravest, most dangerous type of poverty in this world is when people believe that they lack the power to help themselves by doing everything within their own power.

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