"Insured, but Bankrupted Anyway" by Annie Underwood, The New York Times
One goal of the heath care reform is that health care will be available to everyone. Many cannot afford health care but with the reform health insurance will be cheaper. However, simply having health insurance isn't enough. It's predicted that millions of people will file for medical bankruptcy in the next year. In recent studies, two thirds of people who have filed for bankruptcy cite that it was medical related. Of those, over half had insurance. There are many repercussions that filing bankruptcy does, bad credit, difficulty getting loans for things such as housing and many more.
I am unsure about how I feel about the health care reform plan, whether it will do good or not, but I believe there are other issues we need to give attention to. The health reform may sound pleasing, "health insurance for everyone", but there is a bigger picture that needs to be focused on such as unemployment and the economic recession.