Agree with a lot of the recent posts. I’m probably one of the healthiest people I know. Never broke a bone, never got sick or missed work “once” since my last job after about 15 years of work. Rarely see the doctor if ever…All that said, things change or will change within 10-20 years for many folks.

In regards to your son, like some examples, if this plays out and he eventually gets married, has kids, spouse, etc…this law would help him immensely. Maternity/Neonatal care alone could probably be impossible to get even for people who are willing to pay. I know since for me, I looked…It was expensive, only 1 option in CA previously and crappy.

This sorta like reminds me of working at startups. When I was single and put in the long long hours, there were parents who had to leave early to pick up their kids, go to pta meetings, etc…

You don’t think too much about it because eventually, that could be you (which it is now for me). In a company, you don’t feel as bad maybe since they are a friend/co-worker, but in the US of A, we just naturally dislike the poor/sick slob I guess and don’t want to subsidize the next guy even though in 10 years, we’re that next guy.

It’d be interesting to see how all this plays out in 5-10 years. It’s not perfect, but unlike car insurance, health care is sorta required or people, like now just use emergency rooms and we all still pay.

Someone brought up the interesting point that even though we already excluded all the sickly people with the current insurance situation, the costs was still soaring.

I’m glad that at least something is being tried.

Isn’t Romney’s health care for all in Mass working out pretty well actually?