The Affordable Health Care Act

Call it Obama Care if you must.  I call it a good thing in the making.  And so I am relieved that the Supremes decided to uphold it.


There are many provisions in the Act that most people really like.  They seem to be most divided over the mandatory aspect of purchasing health care insurance.  That, and given the fact that it is President Obama's achievement.  Haters will hate.


This act is not ideal.  It would have been better if we could have achieved a single-payer plan, and not a for-profit plan with insurance companies still having so much power.  But this act does put limits on the most despicable actions taken by insurance companies in the past.


Many provisions will have to be worked out and adjusted as we go along.  But that was also true of Social Security and Medicare, and most of us seem to like them just fine now.  Even the Obama Care haters will tell you to keep your hands off their Medicare!  And yet they are deathly afraid of socialism???  Ignorance is ugly.


Stay calm, everyone.  The air waves are full of fear mongering right now, but it will be worked out. We are not going to kill Grandma.