Obama To Act Quickly on Health Reform
Thursday December 11, 2008
Yahoo News reports that President-Elect Obama is already starting to work on healthcare reform. Obama wants to move quickly in an effort to avoid the problems that plagued Clinton's reform attempt in the early 1990's. He has already started by sending his transition team out to gather ideas from Americans this month. This will also help to ensure that the process of implementing reform is as open and transparent as possible.
The most significant barrier facingObama's reform efforts is the cost. In the current economic climate, anything as expensive as comprehensive healthcare reform is going to have difficulty gaining traction. However, his advisors note that the cost of not reforming our healthcare system is likely to be even higher.
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We can only hope that our new president will follow through on his promises of healthcare reform and help us save some money. As a webmaster for a group healthcare and financial products broker in Dade and Broward counties in South Florida, I see just how much the costs of care have risen here due to the heavy population of retirees and their needs for prescription drugs and just plain general health pictures. I am approaching retirement myself and have no desire to have to spend my hard earned annuities or IRA and 401K that I have saved as part of my retirement planning on healthcare insurance! Car pooling can help save a little, but healthcare reform would save me a whole lot more.
Jean Drogus
I am really intrigued to learn more about your history and experience in the health care industry. Can you please contact me at sophie.callahan@yahoo.com. I would love to discuss some of the issues you address in your health insurance blog.
The “Pay or Play” tax has been a part of what the Democrats tried to pass awhile back, (2005). Obama has picked up on it as a solution for health care coverage. Here are a couple of links you can search all over the net for it make sure to put Obama’s name into the search also:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWU….zQzYTE5NGUwOWI=
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/2….28gottlieb.html
http://markets.chron.com/chron?ChannelID=3197&GUID=6875091&Page=MediaViewer
http://employerreport.blogspot.com/2008/….ealth-care.html