should Obama's plan go through in the U.S...................

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I discussed how happy I was with my health care services here with Molina Medicaire and Medicaid with my brother. He went into this long talk about how my health care (which I get because of disability and low income) comes at a price to others. Isn't my and others' medical, etc., well-being worth something to others?

And he talks about how he has no insurance, being self employed. Well, maybe he made bad decisions about his self-employment? I certainly can't help the illnesses I have. Well, I said, what about Obama's health care plan? Then he complains about that too, because what if he has to buy into it, paying whatever-hundred dollars per year, and never use it.

But when one pays into health insurance as part of a job, they often don't use it either.

Any ideas, thoughts?

No.

You aren't forced to buy into something when you get a job, you are being forced to buy something under Obamacare just because you have a heartbeat.

He may not have to buy anything. It depends on how much he makes. If he makes under 30k and has a family of four, medicaid covers them. If he's single it will be 15k. Above that level he'll get subsidies so it should be cheap. And if he's under 30 he can get a very cheap catastrophic only policy.

Don't worry about it, Obamacare will be dead at lift off.

Absolutely not.

The simple fact of why I don't have health insurance....I can't afford it. I have X dollars to spare every year for health care. If I buy health insurance, I have no more money to pay for health care. This is critical because INSURANCE does not pay for health care until I absorb Y in health care costs out of my own pocket. Thanks to government meddling, the most affordable insurance plans (major medical) are almost impossible to find in favor of HMO-modeled plans that cost a lot more to buy.

I could support a national health care model that makes you pay Z each month but you have access to all needed health care services without any significant deductible on your part...maybe a co-pay would be acceptable. However, Obamacare really does nothing to help people who can't afford health care coverage. Health care reform should have been done in defined and limited steps to fix what was not working and give it a chance to work before deciding on the next step.

You say your brother's situation is one of bad decisions in self-employment. Do you realize more and more employers are being forced to scale back or eliminate their health insurance benefits? Do you realize Obama and Obamacare wants to tax people's benefits as if they were income? That would double the tax liability for every employee who gets benefits. If you don't have an employer choosing to cover the high cost of health insurance, the cost of a private policy is quite high, and thanks to Obamacare passing, I've seen self-employed people watch their premium go up by almost 50% in just 2 years.

On top of that, Obamacare wants to FORCE Americans to by INSURANCE. The whole reason I don't have it is because if I bought insurance, I'd have no money to pay for actual health care needs. I'd be nice in the event something really bad happened so the doctors and hospital would get something, but the fact Obamacare will create a legion of "underinsured" people in America. Underinsured people are those who have health insurance but can't afford to see a doctor because of high premiums for the policy and the high deductibles they must meet before insurance will pick up any part of the bill.

So, Obamacare fixes NOTHING but imposes draconian measures on the average person.