Think how health law helps others

It long past time we stop referring to the Affordable Care Act as Obamacare. We do not call Social Security FDR-care, or Medicare LBJ-care; let’s get over ourselves and think about what it accomplishes for those in need. If you think about the fact that everyone who previously was going for medical care without any insurance we were all paying for them anyway with higher premiums or higher Hospital fees.

Yes people refer to the act as taxation. That is basically true if you don’t have health care presently. We need to get past that since if you already have medical coverage it is nothing to you but what you already have. You didn’t refer to it as a tax before even though you were paying for it.

The cost to private business isn’t what it has been bantered about for the past two years. Ninety-six percent of small businesses have less than 50 employees which is the threshold for them to provide health care. And at that they get income credits to offset some of the cost.

The essence of what is being missed through all of this is thinking about how it helps others. Are we so blind or single minded to think only of oneself? Let me personalize it for you. Suppose it was you? I know because I went through it for about two years being rejected because I had a pre-existing condition which insurers turned me down for. If you think of it in those terms you might have a different mindset.

Tom Rajcan

Wheaton