What do you think of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Healthcare law?
Ron Stillwagon, Monroe
“I’d like to see everybody being supported with healthcare, but I don’t know if it should come out of everybody else’s pocket, too.
“If we had to help everybody get the healthcare that they need, I don’t know, it just seems like another type of socialism that (President Barack Obama) seems to lean towards of making everybody get things instead of leaving it up to the individual.
“I hope the healthcare (law) works out for everyone, but on the other hand, I hope it doesn’t. I guess it could infringe on everybody else’s benefits because taxes are going to go up because of it so it has a bad side to it.”
Sukhammy Ganguly,
Monmouth Junction
“I think it’s good overall.
“Well, the way the system works right now, as an individual, you may not choose to have insurance coverage. Now, if you’re not a Medicare or a Medicaid (recipient), if you’re not covered by either of those and you don’t have insurance coverage, making as if you could afford one and yet don’t have it, you could say, basically pushes up the cost of the providers and, in effect, your costs are being shared by others who have coverage.
“If you choose to pick up a coverage after you fall sick, (under) the previous system you couldn’t do that because you wouldn’t be covered for pre-existing conditions.
“If you were up to (age) 26 and were not covered, you could not get coverage under your parent’s coverage and so on and so forth.
“There was a possibility that (the court) could uphold other parts of the act but not the individual mandate, but what that would, in effect, mean is that the insurance companies would have to take on coverage for pretty much everybody except a population of young healthy adults who for some reason to not choose to buy coverage. It pushes up the cost on one hand, not just for all of us but also for the insurance companies.
“The basic principal of insurance is that the more you spread the risk, the lower the costs are. I do not visualize a scenario where just because you are a healthy young adult, especially if you can afford insurance coverage, that you will not fall sick. That’s unlikely. More likely you will.”
Elise Forte, Metuchen
“As a student, I think everyone should be able to get affordable healthcare, but it shouldn’t be mandatory. I think you really should’ve had a more accessible, affordable healthcare plan instead of the act).”
Mollie Arye, Yardley, Pennsylvania
I’m pro and con. I’m con because I don’t fully understand what’s going on. No one’s come out and blatantly said ‘this is how it’s going to work.’ It’s more complex than I think they’re letting on, and someone needs to just have a show and just fully put it out there and explain it all.
“I’m pro because I think everyone should have health insurance. (This) coming from someone who’s almost died twice for different illnesses and whose parents worked for non-profits for years, I’m very glad to have health insurance. I think it’s very important to have it. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t have been able to, when I was little, have an IV for when I was dehydrated and the health insurance provided me with the IV bags I needed. Otherwise, it would have been hundreds of thousands of dollars just to have water in my body.
“There’s pros and cons to health insurance, though.”

