Obamacare

There is currently a lot of talk about Obamacare and the constitutionality of the mandate. The future of healthcare and President Obama's career are riding on this Supreme Court decision. Before me make or decisions based on the opinions of friends, collegues, and our favorite news station, we must first investigate where the idea for Obamacare came from and think logically about the situation we are in.

The fact of the matter is that many Americans are medically uninsured, which is detrimental to our healthcare ecosystem. Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor from M.I.T., is a leading expert in health care systems. His track record is quite impressive, helping Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, also helping with California, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Wymoing. To no surprise in 2008 Obama's team came to Dr. Gruber for help on our ailing health care system. He predicts that a nationally mandated health care is beneficial to Americans. He believes "Losing the mandate means continuing with our unfair individual insurance markets in a world where employer-based insurance is rapidly disappearing.” If health insurance isn't mandated the competitive market will continue to drive up premium prices since only the sickest would by insurance and the less sick would drop their insurance.

Opposition to his arguments are simple, they are relying on the rationality of people to buy health insurance if it is affordable and accessible. They also believe that if the mandate is passed Gruber is not taking into account "how hard it will be to enforce the mandate.". They believe he is overstating the approximated effectiveness.

Since Obama made health care the center of his campaign he is relying on the most researched and educated person on government mandated economics.

My opinion on the subject is biased and under-researched. I don't nearly know enough information on the state of our health care to give a justified answer. Think logically however, I know we must make a change to our current situation and I believe that if there were a person to help us out, it would be the one man who has researched it his whole life.

Change is a scary thing, especially when it is change to this degree. We have only known one type of health care system; the one we are currently living in. I believe if this mandate is passed it will only lead to good things for our Country. If the mandate is passes and seems to be failing we are always able to make corrective legislature and amendments to be more fitting to our economic situation. It will be interesting to follow this story over the next couple weeks.

-BW