Here's how U.S. health care law is already helping

[Omaha Steve]

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Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 2:05 pm, Tue Apr 26, 2011.

Here's how U.S. health care law is already helping WAYNE KROGER, guest opinion Calkins Media, Inc. | 11 comments

March 23 of this year marked the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. As a result, according to the AFL-CIO, as many as 129 million Americans who were routinely denied coverage or charged excessive premiums are now protected.

Here are some voices of support for the law:

n Mark Hodesh, owner of Downtown Home and Garden in Ann Arbor, Mich., said his company will get a health care tax credit of $15,000 this year, thanks to the legislation. He used this savings to hire an additional employee (the credit is available from 2010 through 2013).

The Main Street Alliance, a network of state-based coalitions that represent 10,000 small-business owners, is concerned about efforts to repeal or slow down health care reform.

"Even the possibility of repeal creates harmful uncertainties," (Alliance Director Sam) Blair said.

In order to make decisions, small businesses need to know that benefits like tax credits, insurance exchanges (or marketplaces, to be set up where people not covered through their employers would shop for health insurance at competitive rates), and stronger reviews of premium increases are here to stay, Blair said.

America "can't afford to go back to a health system that stacks the deck against small businesses," he said.

n The Ihle family from Brooklyn Park, Minn. supports the law; with its passage, their youngest son cannot be denied health insurance in the future due to his serious "pre-existing condition."

n Although many provisions in the Act will not go into effect until 2014, those already implemented already have resulted in "hundreds of thousands of success stories," according to Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a health care consumer advocacy coalition in California.

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. It sounds like

the law is actually a job-CREATOR not a job killer

[Drale]

2. The very fact that the repukes are dead set against it

means that it can't be all bad.

[annabanana]

3. In re-covering my 25 yr old son, the law has proven

to be a lifesaver for us.

[Kurovski]

4. It helped my friends' early-twenties-aged kid who is still on his healthcare plan.

And there is an on-going health emergency. It is a great, great thing. K&R

[Kurovski]

5. Thank you President Obama, and other Dems who worked for so long

to achieve it.

It will be further improved as time goes on.

Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, dissembling Pubbies with all them Sarah Palin/corporate Lies about "death panels" Shame on you.

Your Lord Jesus is super-pissed at ya Sarah. Oh yes, he told me, babe. My advice to you is steer clear of card tables at your church. Do you go to church every Sunday, Sarah? Steer clear.

Jesus/me. You/card tables, We discussed it. ;)

[FourScore]

6. I got a free mamogram last month thanks to the new health care law. n/t

[underpants]

7. The 50% "discount" in the donut hole is huge

for a $6K/month drug the patient responsibility went from $4,300 to about $2,500

[leftstreet]

8. Awesome! Now for some good paying jobs so we can all afford this!

WPA Jobs Program NOW