Throw stones at me - I'm all for a bill that ensures healthcare for every American citizen. I know that there are plenty of people out there who are lazy and ignorant and decide to buy a Cadillac for Christmas instead of buying healthcare for their nine children. However, those nine children (and that ignorant person) suffer...greatly suffer...when little Timmy breaks an ankle playing hide and seek with his friends. Or how about the people out there who are genuinely too poor to purchase healthcare because the premiums run them 600-700 dollars a month? They choose rent over healthcare, and I don't blame them one bit. Also, those premiums were on a track to steadily go up over the next few decades.
Now, as for this bill, I think it's a testimony to what is severely wrong with our country. We have a glaring health issue in this country - from health care insurance to nutrition education to making good decisions regarding one's well being - and we use this bill, this opportunity, to continue on this stupid partisan civil war and also take advantage of the American people. Why the hell are the words "student loans" mentioned in a health care bill? Issues like that make this potentially great moment turn sour.