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It's an interesting bill, as it's not quite "universal" healthcare, not really. It's not there to support those who have healthcare through their employers--it's to protect the people who have no healthcare otherwise. Which means that to me, this original draft of a bill for such coverage may not be the answer, but at least there's movement in the right direction.

If I've got to deal with a president helping to further the debt this country is in--I'd rather it happen while he attempts to help keep the citizens of the country healthy, rather than a president who spends recklessly on the military.

Just to throw in a personal experience. I grew up with a father who was self-employed. He never made a lot of money, but he made enough to get by, and to support a small family. About six years ago, the cost of insurance for himself and my mother skyrocketed from somewhere around 600 a month to over 1300 a month. There's no way that on what my father makes, that he can afford that. Which is unfair, because he's a working adult, he pays his taxes legally and regularly, and yet he can't afford healthcare in the current system.

So to me, this issue hits home, because the healthcare costs in this country are astronomical. And it isn't as if the current system is working--my grandmother died last May, and the runaround she got from the Medicare system for the last six months of her life was just atrocious. She got some pretty abysmal treatment from the government, after working until she was 70 years old.

Basically--it can't get worse than it already is.