Supreme Court Says Buy Health Insurance Or Be Taxed More. Do you agree?

I believe you are right. It will be modified as it goes along, more than likely, and that will probably be best.

I am going to be watching the life expectancies of Japan after the earthquake disaster in 2011. My point being that there are many other causes of decreased life expectancy than lack of insurance and health care alone. I've scarcely used any health-care in my life. In fact, I am the only one my age at work who isn't on prescription medication of any kind. That's because I made other choices in my youth that benefited my health. None of them involved my doctor.

And of course the environment influences our health too. Neither we nor the Japanese can control earthquakes and tsunamis.

One of the problems with the insurance companies now is that they are dictating horrible birth conditions for mothers. There are just too many c-sections in the US, and too much intervention from the medical staff. If that doesn't change, morbidities and mortalities in the US from birth complications aren't going to change either.

Everything done in a US hosital setting is designed for the purpose of staff, not the mother and the baby. And one reason that women can't opt out of the hospital birth setting is that their insurance won't allow it. They have paid all of this money for insurance and they don't have the funds to elect for birth outside of a hospital setting. I respectfully submit to you that this appears to be a collusion between insurance companies and hospitals.--And if it isn't, then regardless, it appears to be, and it is one and the same to women.

What I learned during my first homebirth, was not to let my excitement overcome my need to rest. The minute I had my bloody show, I called my family and in an immature attempt to "speed up" the delivery, I started walking. My son had no intention of being "sped up" and to this day, he refuses to be hurried along."

After a couple hours of nothing happening, I was exhausted, and fortunately, because I was at home, I just fell back to sleep and woke up between contractions and then went back to sleep. But that is not an option for laboring women in hospitals.

I was walking to the cafeteria one night, and I happened into a woman in labor who was walking and in tears. I asked her what was wrong and she said that her doctor had put her on a two hour walk. After that, she would be be put in a hospital bed and the entire protocols of that hospital's birth process would be carried out step by step, minute by minute. Her pain and fatigue would be managed by drugs. There needs to be a total revamp of birth and delivery education in the US, so that the process doesn't benefit the hospital, instead of the patient. Because all of the health insurance in the world isn't going to change the culture of greed that is affecting women and children in our nation.

Yes, the motorcycle was insured, but normal insurance for medical payments is about $5,000. John had $100,000 of his own, and his insurance covered $5,000, so who pays the $245,000 balance on the hospital and doctor bills? What happens all the time is that John and people like him files for bankruptcy, the hospital and doctors absorb the losses, and hospitals increase their rates to outrageous levels and passes those increases on to the insurance companies and then they raise their premiums for those that have health insurance. That is the primary reason why health care costs $2.7 trillions a year in this country, when it only cost $256 billions in 1980.

Read this study from Harvard Medical School about bankruptcies caused by health care costs:
http://www.businessweek.com/b...
"Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid."
"Medically related bankruptcies have been rising steadily for decades. In 1981, only 8% of families filing for bankruptcy cited a serious medical problem as the reason, while a 2001 study of bankruptcies in five states by the same researchers found that illness or medical bills contributed to 50% of all filings."

"""Unless you're Warren Buffett, your family is just one serious illness away from bankruptcy.""