President Obama's Health Care Speech

A few weeks ago I decided to DVR the presidents speech on health care reform. The constant back and forth debates on the different news channels had become irritating and I wanted to hear the truth about the reform from the source. As I began listening to the speech and taking mental notes on what topics the president was covering, I realized that he had made a great argument in support of the reform. He covered how he planned on paying for it, who was going to be covered, how it would help our national deficit and how it would effect us here in the United States. However, there are also a few points that I feel he missed. One of the biggest things I feel he missed was the topic of demand. When this reform does go through and all the uninsured people in the country now have health insurance, how is our health care system going to handle the influx of forty-five million new customers?! It scared me that this rather huge topic was not brought up at all. I have not even seen any news media showing any concern over the demand that health care is going to take on, which is kind of interesting because they are usually reporting everything, everywhere especially on hot topic issues like this. Another issue I feel that was not covered was the effect this reform would have on health care workers. I understand that the patients comes first, but health care workers also need to know what is going to happen to them. Is there pay going to be affected? Is there a danger of people loosing certain jobs? If there is going to be a lack of consideration for the employees of health care then won't that have an effect on patients care as well? These are the questions and issues that I feel need to be answered first. I am sure there are a great deal more questions that I did not consider, but I feel that the issues I mentioned are very important. I consider my self a liberal person and am very open minded to new ideas such as this health care reform, but this needs to be done right! If this reform is not done right, not only will it waste a great deal of money but it will make it next to impossible to pass any future health reform in this country for a very long time.