Patient and doctor cooperation in taking back control of the health care system is even more important after President Obama signed into law today, the controversial Health Care Reform Bill.
The bill been summarized to death, an interesting breakdown on how it will affect us is found here. Or, a better suggestion is to read for yourself the actual bill from the library of congress. Of course, it is still being reconciled but I think you'll be surprised at what it actually says and what that means for us individually, as a community and as country. Some questions to ask ourselves are: who actually wrote the bill and why? Why now? What does this mean on a personal level, community level, and globally? What will the health care system look like in ten years, or twenty? How will it affect our children's children?
Of interest, is that 7 minutes after the bill, 13 states sued the US government for their actions stating that the new bill violates the 10th Amendment of the Constitution that says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" (read more). I'll say that it is difficult to enforce something that the country as a whole isn't fully behind.
No matter what you think, this will affect each and everyone of us and as Vice President Biden put it so eloquently "this is a f*%Cing big deal".
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