The Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) is usually seen as a large entity that was established, and it's effects on the individual's life is less talked about. However, Obamacare has been changing the majority of peoples coverage plans, causing many to expire in the upcoming months. For people like Edith Sundby, this is going to cause her to have to move away from the doctors who were helping to treat her pancreatic cancer and attempt to find a plan that is even remotely as good as her last one. Her main point is that medical coverage is life and death: to take away people's ability to control their healthcare choices and they could die.
This is obviously a very controversial issue and honestly I'm extremely torn by it. On the one hand, there's people like Ms. Sundby who are highly dependent on having essentially total control of their healthcare. On the other hand, there's the people who are in great need of coverage who lack the ability to get it. I can sympathize for both sides, and obviously there has been a lot of debate over the overall good that the Affordable Healthcare Act provides. After reading this article though, I'm definitely leaning toward the side of Ms. Sundby, the side where she can retain the medical care that she needs.
http://news.yahoo.com/woman-s-op-ed-in-wall-street-journal-201208417.html
That's a valid point to sympathize with her but I disagree. Not one law or bill passed is going to be good for every American in the country and I think that's why Americans are targeting obamacare as a bad thing. This is designed to help majority or most of the united stated because if we just helped the minority then we wouldn't survive
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