The Health-Care Ego Trip

Robert J. Samuelson, a columnist for The Washington Post wrote a logical opinion about the health care reform bill President Obama is pushing. In the article Samuelson's opinion seems justified by statistics he researched and his comments based on them. For example, according to one study being uninsured leads for 45,000 deaths in America. As sad as it is that those 45,000 people die from lack of professional health care does it mean that those 45,000 people, given the opportunity to have insurance, would take it? According to Samuelson in another study, 10.9 million who were eligible for insurance didn't take it in 2007. In a figure cited by Baucus, the number of Americans who die from being uninsured in "itself is an unreliable statistical construct built on many assumptions." By a base of 351 deaths, 60 of them were uninsured. When averaged out the percentages weren't far apart (3 % insured to 3.3% uninsured).
To quote Samuelson: "The point is not to deny that the uninsured are more vulnerable...the point is that estimating how much is extremely difficult." To pull from personal experience, I agree with Samuelson's opinion about the health care reform for the most part. I am uninsured at the moment but do not plan to be for much longer. It is unfortunate that I lost it but at the same time looking at the percentages of those eligible to receive insurance to those who are not really delegate how much the reform may help or may cause more trouble to our ever growing recession. Politicians want us to believe that they are god and that it is their destiny to serve for our government and to make our laws but to us it makes us suspicious for their decisions and the bills they are trying to pass.
A bill like that Health Care Reform seems like a great plan on the outside but along side the big print there is also the small print most people don't read. Our question is: What does the small print fully entail? The Wall Street Journal recently pulled a poll amongst their readers and according to their responses just over 40% opposed Obama's proposal and another 39% were undecided. I believe you can add me to the undecided poll.