Health Care:)

Health care costs have been rising for several years. Stemming this growth has become a major policy priority, as the government, employers, and consumers increasingly struggle to keep up with health care costs. In 2008, U.S. health care spending was about $7,681 per resident and accounted for 16.2% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product; this is among the highest of all industrialized countries.Although Americans benefit from many of the investments in health care, the recent rapid cost growth, coupled with an overall economic slowdown and rising federal deficit, is placing great strains on the systems used to finance health care, including private employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and public insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

In August a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, refused to throw out a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general challenging the constitutionality of President Barak Obama's planned overhaul of the nation's health care system. An 18 Oct federal court hearing in the same city will decide  whether the national health care law complies with requirements of the Constitution or exceeds the powers granted to Congress. The case represents an opening volley in the legal challenges by Republican-led states to the Democrat-led overhaul. Few observers expect the issue to be settled until the Supreme Court has weighed-in on the mandate that Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or face a fine.
Total Health Care Spending


Does our government's health care plan need reforming?


Yes, i think that everyone should be provided health care. There are many people who's lifespan depends on health insurance. People are dying everyday w/o having any health insurance at any time because the government hasnt acted apon this issue. My grandmother suffers from diabetes as well and i want to when is the govt going to take action.

what do you think<3

Abortion

The background history of Abortion goes back to the 1800's when laws forbid the act after 16 weeks of conception. By the early 1900's the act was completely outlawed but even at that, women were still having abortions. Back then the procedure was very unsafe but even with the risks involved there were those who still sought after unscrupulous physicians who would do the procedure. So when did abortion become legal? The procedure became legal in 1973 through a well known Supreme Court case. This ruling took precedence over state laws that banned abortion.
           In 1973, in the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provided a fundamental right for women to obtain abortions.

Is abortion wrong if the fetus cannot feel pain?

Dr. Janice Crouse(arguing from a conservative side) believes that life begins a the time of conception while others believe that life doesnt begin until the egg develops into a fetus and it is able to feel pain. Monica Potts(arguing from a liberal side) says: conservatives use fetal pain to prove that abortion is wrong. Liberals say that abortion is more of a public health issue. Women are hurting themselves by getting back-alley abortions and whatnot. They also say that most abortions are done early in pregnancy before the fetus is actually a baby. It all boils down to the womans rights or the baby's rights!

I, myself, am more pro-life than anything. Yes i understand that there are some circumstances where it easy to consider abortion but there are other alternatives such as adoption. Whether the fetus can feel the pain or not doesn't matter. Once it is conceived, it has a right to its life just as much as you do to yours! If someone is paralyzed from the neck down, is it okay to kill them since they cant feel any pain? I didn't think so