Healthcare Reform Debate Redux

Healthcare Affordability and Accessibility (aka Obamacare) is being debated yet again. Maybe it would be helpful if citizens actually informed themselves about what's in it. It's amazing how free politicians and pundits feel free to tell outright lies these days. Check politifact.com or factcheck.org.  To get the simplest primer I've seen on what's in the healthcare reform law from a reliable source, go to: 

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8061.pdf

http://healthreform.kff.org/The-Animation.aspx

We all need to remember to write op-ed pieces for our local papers, to write our legislators, and to generally make it our business to correct the misinformation flying around. 

More Small Businesses Offering Healthcare Thanks to the New Healthcare Legislation

Bringing healthcare to more Americans is not just the moral thing to do, but it makes economic sense. Seems to me that a home economist would really appreciate the beauty of that. In fact, if there's any group of professionals who should  make it their goal to inform consumers about what's in this law and how it will affect consumers (that is, FAMILIES), then it would be the dear old Family and Consumer Scientists. But where are we on this? Go to our website: this issue is non-existent. We seem to exist in a political and historical vacuum.
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/06/more-small-businesses-offering-health-care-to-employees-thanks-to-obamacare/

Health Care is not just a luxury for a select few.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/12/10/131972595/democrats-ramp-up-war-on-gop-health-benefits

It's about time democrats in Congress grew backbones. Finally they point out the hypocrisy of congresspeople accepting government funded insurance while attempting to repeal healthcare legislation designed to make healthcare accessible for the people they claim to represent. Stick by your principles, dems, please. And make your new freshmen colleagues stick by theirs.