HEALTHCARE
- March 31, 2010 - President Obama signs into law the controversial bill The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also know as "ObamaCare", "Health Care Reform and "Universal Healthcare"
D: Give Obama credit for accomplishing one of his main goals. Although his originally supported reform bill had to go under certain amendments before being able to pass through Congress. Finally, the amended third bill was signed By President obama on March 30, 2010.. And give him credit for acknowledging something has to be done to improve the American healthcare system. But implementing this reform bill is not the right decision. It is not "reform" the American healthcare system needs, but "improvement". America has the best healthcare system in the world, hands down. As this is proven based on the countless patients who travel from every part of the globe to be treated by the most talented doctors using the best technology. That being said, like everything else, the American health has room for improvement. The best way of making these improvements is using three steps which will dramatically bring down insurance costs and improve efficiency:
1: Allow insurance companies to compete across state lines (interstate competition)
2: Stop the frivolous lawsuits against doctors and healthcare practitioners
3: Stop the corruption
Instead Obama's plan will force people to be insured against their own will (or pay a penalty), give them limited choices in what doctors they can use, increase insurance costs for small businesses and cost taxpayers millions. In short, a health care system that is primarily used in socialists countries.
- Jan 1, 2010 - President Obama, in attempts to push his controversial healthcare reform bill, has continuously claimed the number of uninsured Americans who can not afford health coverage to be at 46 million people.
F: Obama must do a better job with providing Americans the true and accurate number of uninsured. Is President Obama being misleading by using this statistic just to support his healthcare reform bill? The facts show 46 million is highly inaccurate. The true extent of the uninsured is much less than what the President claims. After counting illegal immigrants (10 million), those who can afford it but choose not to- salaries over $50,000/year (17 million), the temporarily uninsured (9 million), and those who choose professions that pay off the books. (These people sacrifice health coverage in exchange for not paying income taxes), the number is astoundingly lower. The true count of uninsured Americans is an estimated 8 million...a far cry from 46 million.
-Feb 4, 2009 - President Obama signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children. This is Obama's first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans under universal health care. The children's health bill calls for spending an additional $32.8 billion on SCHIPI, (created more than a decade ago to help children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage) which now enrolls an estimated 7 million children. This plan will be paid for with higher cigarette taxes.
C : The good news is that 4 million uninsured children will now have health coverage. Ensuring that all children have health insurance is a must. And supporting this program while also attempting to deter people from smoking dangerous cigarettes (by taxing cigarettes) is a good intention. However, there are some downsides to this plan. First, it should be known that none of these current uninsured American children would ever be denied medical assistance due to lack of insurance coverage. In America, that is illegal. Second, this is another spending bill that America can not afford. It is going to cost American tax payers another $32.8 billion dollars. Third, this move takes the program beyond it's original intent by now encouraging some parents to utilize this free health care entitlement program instead of putting their children under private health insurance. Fourth, this move puts America's health care system that much closer to universal healthcare which will be run by the government instead of the people. Universal healthcare currently exists in socialists countries and results in higher taxes, decrease in patient options, mandate doctors' flexibility leading to poor patient care, many patients would curb their doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs and instead use the free government services leading to overall increase in doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs for everyone else .
D: Give Obama credit for accomplishing one of his main goals. Although his originally supported reform bill had to go under certain amendments before being able to pass through Congress. Finally, the amended third bill was signed By President obama on March 30, 2010.. And give him credit for acknowledging something has to be done to improve the American healthcare system. But implementing this reform bill is not the right decision. It is not "reform" the American healthcare system needs, but "improvement". America has the best healthcare system in the world, hands down. As this is proven based on the countless patients who travel from every part of the globe to be treated by the most talented doctors using the best technology. That being said, like everything else, the American health has room for improvement. The best way of making these improvements is using three steps which will dramatically bring down insurance costs and improve efficiency:
1: Allow insurance companies to compete across state lines (interstate competition)
2: Stop the frivolous lawsuits against doctors and healthcare practitioners
3: Stop the corruption
Instead Obama's plan will force people to be insured against their own will (or pay a penalty), give them limited choices in what doctors they can use, increase insurance costs for small businesses and cost taxpayers millions. In short, a health care system that is primarily used in socialists countries.
- Jan 1, 2010 - President Obama, in attempts to push his controversial healthcare reform bill, has continuously claimed the number of uninsured Americans who can not afford health coverage to be at 46 million people.
F: Obama must do a better job with providing Americans the true and accurate number of uninsured. Is President Obama being misleading by using this statistic just to support his healthcare reform bill? The facts show 46 million is highly inaccurate. The true extent of the uninsured is much less than what the President claims. After counting illegal immigrants (10 million), those who can afford it but choose not to- salaries over $50,000/year (17 million), the temporarily uninsured (9 million), and those who choose professions that pay off the books. (These people sacrifice health coverage in exchange for not paying income taxes), the number is astoundingly lower. The true count of uninsured Americans is an estimated 8 million...a far cry from 46 million.
-Feb 4, 2009 - President Obama signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children. This is Obama's first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans under universal health care. The children's health bill calls for spending an additional $32.8 billion on SCHIPI, (created more than a decade ago to help children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage) which now enrolls an estimated 7 million children. This plan will be paid for with higher cigarette taxes.
C : The good news is that 4 million uninsured children will now have health coverage. Ensuring that all children have health insurance is a must. And supporting this program while also attempting to deter people from smoking dangerous cigarettes (by taxing cigarettes) is a good intention. However, there are some downsides to this plan. First, it should be known that none of these current uninsured American children would ever be denied medical assistance due to lack of insurance coverage. In America, that is illegal. Second, this is another spending bill that America can not afford. It is going to cost American tax payers another $32.8 billion dollars. Third, this move takes the program beyond it's original intent by now encouraging some parents to utilize this free health care entitlement program instead of putting their children under private health insurance. Fourth, this move puts America's health care system that much closer to universal healthcare which will be run by the government instead of the people. Universal healthcare currently exists in socialists countries and results in higher taxes, decrease in patient options, mandate doctors' flexibility leading to poor patient care, many patients would curb their doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs and instead use the free government services leading to overall increase in doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs for everyone else .
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