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Can someone explain President Obama’s Health Care Plan?
I still do not know any details about the proposed Obama Health Care plan for Citizens. They don’t explain if I will still have to pay a monthly premium. Right now I have no health insurance after 30 years of steady employment and I always had good coverage through employers. Now after I quit my job to get a better one I was let go suddenly from the new job and when I was offered Cobra from the previous Employer the cost was almost as much as a mortgage payment. My main question is will it still cost me something to see a doctor or have surgery or a stay in the hospital. They need to explain more of what do they mean by Health Care Reform and how it will affect us all as citizens,as far as is there a premium to pay etc. I have a personal friend in Canada and raves about their Health Care for Canadians. When you see a doctor or have to go into the hospital it does not cost anything, drugs very little to no cost.
Obama has only released very sketchy details about his plan. He says he’ll leave it to Congress to flesh out the details. He’s only trying to shield himself from attacks from Republicans.
The problem is that money has become the most important thing in politics. Obama spent $600,000,000 to get elected, and a lot of this money comes from the handful of big health insurance companies that -own- the entire health care system in the US. No politician, of either party, has the guts to cheese them off, so every health care plan that either party comes up with has to keep the insurance industry in place, and in control. So they all end up being no more than a big govt. subsidy to the existing health insurance industry.
Obama did have the idea of breaking out what it costs for one person on Medicare, and offering to sell that to people, to compete with the commercial system. But it’s doubtful he’ll even be able to do that.
Canada was wise enough to kill the health insurance industry in its cradle. In the US, we went the other way, allowing health insurance companies to merge and become an oligopoly, and to buy up all the hospitals and clinics, so they are not just the insurers but the actual providers. Canada pays about half what we do for the same or better care, better outcomes, better customer satisfaction.
