Current Event #2; Flaw In Health Care Plan

So unless you've been living under a rock, every one has heard of President Obama's famous or perhaps infamous, depending on your point of view, Health Care Plan. Obama's initial intent is to "make health care affordable for every one" but recently claims contradicting the President's plan are beginning to surface. This article claims that "middle-class Americans will still struggle to pay for health insurance despite" Obama's efforts. Why is that you ask? Well the article answers that too; this legislation "requires all Americans to get insurance--through an employer, a government program or by buying it themselves". Now the new tax credits cannot help cover the complete costs which proves to be ineffective for the lower middle-class section of society. Also, trying to lump all moderate income families vary across the country into a specific group is almost impossible. Like we had discussed in class, our county's middle-class income range is almost triple the national average, primarily because of our location--but still. The article is also jam packed with statistics analyzing incomes and how much they would have to pay such as how a family of four making $63,000 would end up getting $3,970 in health insurance aid but they would still have to end up paying $7,110 as the remainder which is an incredibly high amount for some people to come up with. Senator Max Baucus is proposing his own plan now. Under his plan, that same family of four making $63,000 would have to pay 11% of its income for health insurance which isn't a significant difference from Obama's plan. Congress faces quite the ordeal with this piece of legislation.

Personally, I do not agree with Obama's or Baucus's plan. I mean, I know they're trying hard to create equal health insurance coverage but such a task is difficult to group the whole country under a specific legislation. Trying to concoct one supreme bill that pleases every one is practically impossible. I'm probably biased because I've never had to struggle to cover health costs but I do think that the lower income families should be receiving some sort of aid rather than left alone--just not to the point where a "universal health care" plan is established. I am against this just because whenever I'm up in Canada and a relative gets really sick suddenly and has to go to see the doctor as an emergency, we all have to wait not minutes but hours just to meet with a doctor in lines leading from the front desk of the Emergency Room to outside. It ridiculous, chaotic, and kind of gross, really. Just as long as things do not come to that in the U.S. and the lower income families receive some sort of aid, I'll support it.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_affordability