Will The Obama Health Care Plan Expand Health Insurance?
November 17, 2008
Washington (dbTechno) - President-elect Barack Obama has big plans for when he actually gets to take office, with one of them being a new health care plan which many experts feel will greatly expand health insurance coverage.
Currently there are 47 million Americans without health insurance, a number that is far too high.
Barack Obama is proposing a new health care system and hopes to have it in place soon after he takes office.
Under the new system, more people who cannot afford health insurance may be able to be covered through their employer, or the government.
Obama is going to make his push with his own version of a universal health care plan.
The idea behind it is to get businesses to lower health insurance premiums and such for employees.
If they opt to not give health insurance to the employees, they will have to pay into a government fund that will then offer health insurance.
Experts feel that it is going to cost the government around $50 billion each year, but would bring forth major long-term benefits.
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Mandatory ‘for-profit’ service stinks of corruption. When a group of companies tells the government: Sure we’ll allow you to pass that law, as long as you force everyone to pay us…That’s corruption! If the Democratic party pushes this on us, they will fall faster and harder than the Republicans just did.
The premise for this mandate is to help lower costs by getting everyone into the pool. That is understandable, but what makes more sense is to also cut the “for-profit” part completely out of the picture and cover the costs with our tax dollars. Of course our taxes will go up, but I’ll guarantee it won’t be as much as we are paying for insurance right now. There is absolutely no doubt what so ever that removing the profit will cut costs. I have heard people reject a government run system on the premise that it would limit our choices, but in fact, it would remove current limitations. People need to remember that this is our government and we do get a say, but more importantly, the insurance companies are not, we don’t. Under the current system, your insurance provider can tell you what hospital you can or can not go to. Under a government program you could go to any hospital you like. Other countries have systems like this, some are better than others, but as an American, I’m betting ours would beat them all. Let’s stop wasting our health care dollars on some CEO’s private jet, and show the world what a single payer government run system should look like. We’re Americans after all, let’s start acting like it. These companies are trying to take advantage of us and corrupt our system, I think the American thing to do would be, stick it to ‘em with overwhelming force.