Comments about ‘In our opinion: Affordable Care Act far from settled despite Supreme Court ruling’

It was a fiction all along that Obamacare was unconstitutional. The US constution DOES give congress the right to tax in order to promote the general welfare. Now that this cat is officially out of the bag, republicans should work to make Obamacare better if they don't like it, instead of trying to over throw it.

A person ought to be able follow their dreams and go to work for a small company or be able to start a business secure in the knowledge that they can still get decent health coverage for themselves and thier family. Any country as rich as the United States needs to be able to see to it, that all of its people, not just those lucky enough to had a job, or those lucky enough to have the right employer are able to get decent health care. How many more people would we have willing to start new businesses if they knew this wouldn't hamper their ability to get health coverage for themselves or their family?

My cousin is a plumber who hires other plumbers who can't get insurance for himself and his family because of pre-existing condition.

I know a small business who provided insurance for employees but because of one employee with huge medical bills, the business was dropped by their insurance company. You guessed it the employee was let go. The small business now has a different insurance program. We need to insulate our small companies and workers from these negative consequences which are based on "business decisions" by insurance companies.

The ACA became a hodge-podge of political pandering to both conservatives, the GOP and the health insurance industry.

Because of that, it has some very serious shortcomings.

But it is the ONLY step forward in providing adequate health care for all Americans. Now, instead of destroying the progress it brought, it needs to be revised to make it better. Without the political shackles.

Doing that, though, is gonna be one difficult trick given the amount of money some folks are ready to throw into its total defeat.

Almost every piece of significant legislation is modified by subsequent legislation. It is a shame that the discussion around how this bill should be modified has become so politicized because skyrocketing healthcare costs are a problem for everyone.

Deseret News, your editorial is shallow! You say that the AHCA is not settled. Of course it isn't settled!!

Every substantive piece of legislation in recent years faces the sharp partisan divide our country has developed. In this case it is a law passed by Democrats. Of course it is opposed by Republicans, which is to be espected.

And if Romney is elected, whatever he and Republicans do will also be opposed by the other side.

An editorial on how to settle these partisan battles would have been more informative.

Or an editorial about the support and opposition to AHCA. A balanced editorial would be informative. Not the same old thinnly veiled Republican-supporting editorializing, please..

Look, emotions are still raw, and governors will posture. But it'll all sort itself out. The more people learn about the actual provisions of the ADA, the better they like it. Give it a year, and we'll all be wondering what the fuss was about.

Patients and physicians like the ACA until someone presents the reality that it is not paid for (unless you count borrowing 40% and passing it on for your children to repay) and that Medicaid standards are state, not federally, determined. All of the good provisions in the ACA were previously proposed in the Wyden(D-OR)-Bennett(R-UT) health care recommendations. The goal of universal health care has not been reached or funded.

that's why were counting on the DN to get behind the bill for all of those americans who really need it.

@cjb
Bountiful, UT

"It was a fiction all along that Obamacare was unconstitutional."

The Individual Mandate should be unconstitutional. It permits the Congress to force people to buy something. Soon you might be required to buy a GM (Government Motors) car, membership in an exercise gym membership, and broccoli whether you want to or not.

"The US constution DOES give congress the right to tax in order to promote the general welfare."

The Constitution gives the Congress the right to raise taxes to pay the bills of the government.

Health insurance is not 'general welfare.' Health insurance is 'specific welfare.' General welfare involves things like building roads, approving drugs, issuing patents, etc.

"...republicans should work to make Obamacare better if they don't like it, instead of trying to over throw it."

Republicans are finding that most people don't want Obamacare. That's why they're trying to get rid of it.

"A person ought to be able follow their dreams..."

A person ought to be able to chose whether or not they want to buy any product, including health insurance. That choice is gone under Obamacare. I ask you, what other choices will soon be taken away?

If President Obama is reelected and by some change of heart decides to actually give the people health care reform by giving us the one payer option, it will take years, generations maybe even centuries to wash away the amount of hate that has been built up in the commercial community.

Like the prejudice against black people has shown us, it takes a lot more than words on paper to change peoples minds about something that concerns their wealth.

I have a masters degree in accounting, but I cannot even begin to imagine the millions and millions of $ involved in writing this monstrous legislation, constructing all of the regulations, instituting its requirements, monitoring them, conducting the necessary audits, enforcing its requirements, all of the analysis, all of the lawsuits by states, defending the lawsuits, and on and on and on.

What a disaster for a nation that became the greatest nation in the world through the very basic and marvelous principles of freedom, personal responsibility & accountability, and limited government intrusion into our personal lives.

No wonder countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are in such terrible financial condition.

@ Utah Businessman

"No wonder countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are in such terrible financial condition."

that's funny. You cleverly omit the many "socialized" countries that are doing just fine! In fact, their economies are in far better shape than our own! China, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, UK, France, Germany, etc...

Bringing Greece into this discussion is like bringing Somalia or Afghanistan into the discussion. See, we can find examples of failed capitalistic and socialistic societies!

Unsettled? Only if you mean that buying a house beyond your ability to pay the mortgage qualifies as "unsettled."

Great law and private companies with lobbyists love it.