Millions viewed President Barack Obama sign the Health Care Reform Bill into law in Washington D.C. on March 23.
“We are a nation that does what is hard, what is necessary, what is right,” recited Obama, according to CNN source.
Obama signed on behalf of Marcelas Owens, Natoma Canfield, and other Americans seeking equal opportunity concerning health care.
Owens’ mother passes away because she had no health insurance to seek treatment for her illness, and Canfield had to abandon her health insurance when rates increased.
Barack’s new Health Care Reform Bill will help many Americans to not have to endure what Owens and Canfield experienced in their personal lives.
The Bill is designed to provide lower insurance rates, guaranteed choices, and enhance quality insurance for all Americans young and old.
Thousands of college students attending various institutions across the nation might agree that college is expensive and to include another expense to their checkbooks is devastating.
Kaitely Flanders, communications major stated, “The Health Care Reform Bill will affect me because I’m going to have to pay for my own insurance, making it impossible to pay for bills and insurance.”
A ratio of students similar to Flanders’ situation caused them to go without insurance.
Twenty percent of college students in 2006 ages 18 to 23 were uninsured in a study conducted by Government Accountability Office mentioned the Columbia Spectator.
Due to the new bill, millions of young adults will now be eligible for tax credits to help them afford proper coverage. If they can’t afford it they will qualify for a hardship wavier.
The bill will also allow young adults to stay on their parents insurance until they’re 26.
The $940 billion plan is aimed to extend insurance to approximately 32 million additional Americans.
Though some may agree with the new bill, other completely disagree with it.
“I think it’s a bad idea, health care reform is just another way that the government is making our choices for us,” said English major Shamis Shaw. “We live in a country where the government should be for the people, this bill has taken from the people to take care of others.”
“Before you know it we’ll be living in a communist country,” she added.
Every Republican in the Senate and the House of Representatives did not support the bill and therefore voted against it.
According to the Whitehouse.gov, the Republicans and social conservatives will do everything in their power to repeal the law or declare it unconstitutional.