It's a fallacy that everyone has health care -- in the Emergency Rooms. What about preventive medicine, health counseling, follow-up? And myriad other things that we with insurance take for granted. The present system works if you have money.
I have friends with pre-existing conditions who now pay over $2000 a month for insurance that does not cover all their expenses.
My husband and I and our adopted daughter have medical insurance because he is retired from the military, we have private insurance because we both retired from the state of Alaska, and the oldest of us have medicare. We are also fortunate because we have doctors who will see us in this state where medicare payments are far below rates. And we have full prescription drug coverage under our state policies.
I don't think it is right that some of us have coverage while many of our friends, family, and neighbors have none.
I am glad Dennis Kucinich decided to vote for it.
I like the expression I hear frequently these days, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Idealism is wonderful. Sometimes we can't aford it.