This article, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39295110/ns/health-health_care/, describes how Republicans want to change the health laws passed last year. However, the articles shows how each way may fail. One way the Republicans could change the health laws is to simply repeal and replace what's on the bill. However, this could be difficult because it would take a large majority to repeal and replace parts of the bill. Also, it's not so easy to take out parts of the bill without messing up the rest of it. Another way would be to virtually de-fund the bill. In other words, stop funding for parts of the bill they don't approve of. A third way to change the bill could be to do an "oversight showdown" where the Republicans simply put a lot of pressure on the Democrats to explain the bill, hopefully proving that the bill will do more harm than help.
Personally, I agree that the bill needs to be changed. I think the bill will put too much strain on doctors, working too much for too little money. This will make people not want to go to medical school to be paid so little, leaving the only health care personnel to be nurses and other not as well educated people. This will greatly decrease the quality of our health care. And what's the point in everyone having health care, if it's not effective health care? I've read and heard about numerous examples of other countries having universal health care like we do, and their situations are not as bright as we make our health care seem. However, I do see the other side of the situation. It would be virtually impossible for the Republicans, who currently only have 41 members in the Senate, to change the laws in any way. But the bill definitely needs to be revised, or else this country's health care could degenerate greatly.
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