Saturday, September 12, 2009

Obama's health care plan

President Obama signed the Children’s Health Insurance Act on February 4, 2009. It provides health care to 11 million kids. He had said in which 4 million who were already previously uninsured. The Act protects health coverage for 7 million Americans who lose their jobs. It also invests $19 billion in computerized medical records that will help to reduce costs and improve quality. Obama tells us that $1 billion will go toward the prevention and wellness to improve the health of people and help to lower the costs for health care. He said that also $500 million will go toward the health workforce to help train the next generation of people to bring up doctors and nurses.

The united states spends about $2 trillion on health care every year for people. It offers the best medical technology and research in the world today. Yet many people cant pay for health insurance. It was said that less than 4 cent is spend on prevention and public health. Supposedly to Obama he said that with his health care plan he can fix this and many other problems we have within our health care system. "It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. it will provide insurance to those who don't. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government." Barack Obama

Obama's health care will provide coverage for all children and provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, regardless of illness or pre-existing conditions. The downside is it will require employers to contribute to workers’ health care insurance. but will offer small businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50%. The president had said he would pay for his plan by falling back on Bush's tax cuts and making $250,000 a year. He has not said to when this plan will be passed and has not said that it will bring a great change.