This New York Times Article states that congress approved a set of laws that will make it easy for people to try to prevent diseases and to help people people to get into healthy habits. Under this law the chain restuarants have to post their nutrition information on menus. This law also will enable nursing mothers to have "reasonable" lunch breaks.
Under the reform,health insurance comapanies will have to cover all recommended screenings, preventive care and vaccines, without charging co-payments or deductibles. Medicare beneficiares can get free annual physicals, which will cut their costs and make their quality of life more affordable. Even better news is that medicaid will cover drugs and counseling to help pregnant women to stop smoking. I think it just gets even better, because a new federal trust fund is going to pay for more bicycle paths, playgrounds, sidewalks, and hiking trails. This is being implemented so that people will be less sedentary and more active.
The overall hope for these reforms is to save lives. They feel that if people have more access to insurance that people will get screened for fatal diseases which will prevent premature death.
I feel that these reforms will help us and future generations. I want to be able to see some good come out of our government.
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