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A significant health care bill has been passed by the House and is headed to President Obama's desk to be signed.

I applaud the President's efforts to change our damaged health care system and provide for those in need. However, I fear this will bring about more problems and less solutions once it's fully functional.

Proposed changes like prohibiting health care insurance companies from denying applicants coverage because of pre-existing conditions could help people like my parents. But there is no guarantee.

I worry about the effect this will have on my family and my future children. Being a small business owner, this bill is supposed to help people just like me.

We'll see where the bill takes us...

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U.S. President Barack Obama (R) walks back to the Blue Room with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden after Obama delivered a statement about the House of Representatives' final passage of health care legislation, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 21, 2010. The legislation would usher in the most sweeping changes to the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system in decades. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

Supporters of the Tea Party movement hold a sign outside the US Capitol as they demonstrate in Washington against the health care bill. Democrats used their majority to muscle the measure through, losing 34 conservative party members who joined the united Republican opposition, worried about paying a political price in November mid-term elections. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's, D-Texas, arm rests on an autographed copy of the bill after the House passed health care reform in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)