Healthcare Reform Balls cover the Teabaggers

"This is what change looks like" President Obama Declared!

Would I be stating the obvious if I said that the Tea Party got tea bagged tonight by health care reform balls? Well all kidding aside, I know that It's left the country in a divisive place, but most major decisions that have our country have done the same. It might not be 100% perfect, but it's a step in the right direction, I believe. And being a person that has been denied health insurance in her late teens because of what 3 companies labeled a preexisting condition, I feel positive about this. Fining people for not having coverage is not ideal, in my eyes but we also fine people for not having car insurance? It costs us more when the uninsured show up in emergency rooms so either way we are paying.

This contested debate has been going steady already for more than a minute.  That minute is 50 years long. Then costing most of his political capital, (when he still had some before the Lewinski Scandal,) the Clintons tried to do it again 20 Years ago. The Republicans say they do not feel defeated but I think it will just be a matter of time before we see the (Republican) finger-pointing beginning. We already have seen the vicious and racist name calling.

The Huffington post has this list as things that people will see immediatly and benefit from As soon as health care passes.

The legislation will:

• Prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in all new plans;
• Provide immediate access to insurance for uninsured Americans who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition through a temporary high-risk pool;
• Prohibit dropping people from coverage when they get sick in all individual plans;
• Lower seniors prescription drug prices by beginning to close the donut hole;
• Offer tax credits to small businesses to purchase coverage;
• Eliminate lifetime limits and restrictive annual limits on benefits in all plans;
• Require plans to cover an enrollee's dependent children until age 26;
• Require new plans to cover preventive services and immunizations without cost-sharing;
• Ensure consumers have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to appeal new insurance plan decisions;
• Require premium rebates to enrollees from insurers with high administrative expenditures and require public disclosure of the percent of premiums applied to overhead costs.

By enacting these provisions right away, and others over time, we will be able to lower costs for everyone and give all Americans and small businesses more control over their health care choices.

What happens next?: Democrats hope to pass the Senate bill Sunday and the package of changes designed in part to make the overall legislation more acceptable to House Democrats. President Obama can sign the bill into law if it passes. 

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