What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

If you would like to see just exactly how much money would be put into the health care system, here is a link where you are able to see what $1 trillion looks like. Afterwards, try to imagine two of those being used solely for health care.

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12754

Positives and Negatives of Health Care Reform

Feel free to comment on this post and add to either of the categories.

Positives

-There will be a nationalized health care system!
-Health insurance will be a more affordable and more accessible benefit of life to everyone rather than a luxury to some.
-Many more employees will receive health insurance coverage from their employer.
-A nationalized health care system would open lots, I mean lots, of jobs for Americans.


Negatives

-Some people do not want to be forced to pay for something they do not need or want.
-If a company has more than 30 employees, the employers will be forced to cough up extra money to cover the health insurance of their employees.
-Many occupations in the medical field will lose a large portion of their wages and the jobs will not be as desireable.
-Although it is not for certain, the quality of the health care system in the United States will likely be lower because it is providing for so many more people.
-To support such a system, expenses for the government will pile up to about $2 trillion over 10 years.

Is it necessary?

The simple fact that the United States still exists today is proof that the Health Care Bill has not been completely necessary. However, there are plenty of other countries such as Canada, Germany, and Italy that function perfectly with universal health care. However, times are changing and the United States' citizens have many more different needs today than they did before. Maybe it is time for a change to universal health care and maybe not. Even after all the analyzing of data and theorizing, there is ultimately only one way to find out how Americans would react and how well the new system would be able to be integrated into society. If the day comes when universal health care is established in the US, all the world will know just how necessary it is.