一起听新闻、学英语-CBC News-U.S. Health Care Vote

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We could just be a few hours away now from the biggest change in American health care in almost fifty years. This is a look inside the congruous building, that’s where the house representatives and now you see they’re debating this major health care bill. They’re expected to vote later on today, again, they’re looking for that magic number 216, if it pass it, it means health insurance for 32M uninsured Americans. Paul Hunter’s watching it all from Washington.


It’s very complicated, you know this thick kind of bill, the lot of people are confused about it. But, you know, if I can boil it down to its accents, the health insurance coverage in this country will grow, because more Americans will be forced to buy it. That’s what it all to boil it down to. Right now there’re couple of reasons why a lot of Americans don’t have health insurance. One, they can’t afford. So this bill will provide a subsidies to enable people to afford it, government subsidies. The other is, you know, people who are young and healthy, say, hey, why should I pay money for health insurance, I don’t need it, right? So as a result that’s why the insurance company have got all the other things in place, like denying coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. That will be out lawed under the new bill. But because we’re have all these customers, clients, people’s paying the money, they’re able to afford to providing insurance for pre-existing conditions. It’s kind of circular thing at the end of the day. But what it all boil down to is more Americans will have health coverage when all of sudden it does, 32M more. Right now to the embarrassment of many Americans, it is really the only you know developed country in the world doesn’t have this kind of health coverage force to citizen and this will end that, the redden it. Because almost got out of control of it. I mean, it’s kind of spectacle to sit back and watch it all you know but it is all coming to end after all this time. We’ll release as I say this stage. There will be a vote today, the expectation is, you know, on the key issue here, on the bill itself, sometime between dinner time and midnight. At that point, it can go to Obama’s desk for signing, and it becomes the law of the land. However, that doesn’t mean things will change for the United States in terms of health coverage effective Monday morning. The longest scale time line, you know, looks like this, although, some of the things will coming to effect immediately, for example, banning a life time coverage, some of the key stuff, including the things, I just talked about, forcing Americans to buy insurance by law and insurance companies not been able to deny coverage for people’s pre-existing condition, that doesn’t kick in till the year 2014. And by that time, we’ll have citizen midterm this year, another two years, another civil elections and that will be presidential election before this really kicks in. So the political landscape will be very different by the time the bill’s been voted on today actually comes in to effect.