Who says you can't have procedure done now? Who says a MRI isn't needed? Private insurance companies. The people you already pay money to to receive a service who are dedicated to not providing as much of that service as they possibly can. We already have bean counters who control our health industry.
You guys and your conspiracy theories would be funny if it weren't believed by so many who let others do their "thinking" for them.
Since going to jail for not buying insurance is a whipping point for the right, how about someone posting the exact passage?
Is the bill perfect? Hell no. But in a country like ours, where we profess to be better than others, to deny health care to our citizens because of ability to pay is criminal. To deny health care to CHILDREN in our country is criminal. But you guys are ok with that because you're just afraid of what you don't understand.
Tax or fee? You pay gas "tax", but you pay a licencing "fee" when you by your huntin' & fishin' tags. You are required to carry insurance if you are a driver.
Four hundred times the poverty rate for a family of 4 is $88,000 a year. They are eligable for subsidized health care. But at that amount of money a year, you most likely have health care already, provided by your work place. I have always had health care and we've never been at 88 grand a year.
What you would like to see continue I guess is the working poor to use Emergency Rooms for their health care. The MOST expensive health care in the world is done in emergency rooms. Guess who pays for that? You and me. You don't want people to be responsible for their own health care? You would prefer to pay for someone's treatment for bronchitis using emergency care prices or going to see a doctor who prescribes antibiotics for and fraction of a fraction of the cost?
What you want is unsustainable. You want everyone to be responsible, yet you don't mind paying their hidden costs by higher health care costs for everyone.
It's just like gas. If we really paid what it costs us to protect and move gasoline, it would be well over $10 a gallon. (We don't see it because we pay the Pentagon to make sure the supply isn't interrupted, a perfect example of saving a dime here when you spend $10 over there).
It's like FedEx. They save money on the dock by using part timers, but spend more on local with damages and bad routing.
If you would think critically instead of seeing evil in everything, you maybe wouldn't be so angry and paranoid.
Franklin I can see you are a true believer. Your logic is what locked 1000's of japanese americans up during wwII and their bank acounts were stolen by the govt. Their property was seized by the govt. all in the name of what is best for the country. A farm near Stanwood,WA was stolen from my family during WWII, and all that my grandparents worked for. They were Japanese immigrants who came through Ellis Island the legal and correct way. If you really believe we aren't headed for tyranny I just wish you and your family well. And how can a child be denied healthcare in this country. Were you? To speak in theory and platitudes is easy.It is all the Left ever does. Do a little research and you will see all of President Obama's czars or advisors are former Goldman Sachs executives , with a few other bailout recipient ecexs. Oh wait I forgot about the former communists who want to give animals rights in criminal court.