#11

Basically our government is looking at the economic sides of expanding this bill or not expanding it. Once again they are arguing over what is going to be better and what is not going to be better.

While we have a lot of nurses around us I am not so sure that there are a lot of doctors around. I know that there are a few up in Red  Lodge that get more money if that was the way they chose to go with it. My mom is a nurse and honestly I have no idea how this would affect her. I'm sure there are people that it would benefit and others that it would hinder. Just like most things in life there is always going to be someone who benefits and someone who doesn't.

"The money isn't fee- it's taxpayer money after, all, mostly from the federal government- and that the real economic impact may be more complicated."

They are right.  The money has to come from somewhere. Most of the people in our government are higher end people. They are not your common people in the middle class. Therefore they won't be the people taking the big cut financially. If we keep taking money from our middle class our poverty is just going to keep going up. Also we need to look at cutting other things down before we keep adding to it. We are in huge debt I'm not sure where they think this money is coming from.

"If we reduce the amount of unpaid care we deliver, it gives us the opportunity to restrain cost-shifting (to patient who can pay), it gives us the opportunity to take the pressure off price and gives us the opportunity to improve clinical outcomes, which saves money, too"

I do agree with this. By helping people who can't afford their healthcare would help to lower healthcare costs. Although the money they are using is still the person that is getting lower healthcare costs. Basically let us take more money from you for taxes and less when you go to the dr.