Obama's+healthcare+plan

justin = = =Healthcare plan =  The advantages and dis advantages of Obama's healthecare plan.

 __**//Advantages://**__
 * Obama promise to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years as "a watershed event" in the long search for a solution to the millions of uninsured.
 * it would slowly increase by 1.5 percentage points a year
 * this would create breathing room to help provide health insurance to an estimated 50 million Americans who now do not have it.
 * Economists and other experts say the $634 billion budget set aside for Obama's health care will pay perhaps half the cost.
 * The U.S. spends about $2.5 trillion a year on health care.
 * There is enough money in the system to cover everybody, including the estimated 50 million uninsured.[[image:http://www.medindia.net/news/featured-news/obama-healthcare.jpg width="120" height="100" align="right"]]



__//**The 4 ways Obama wants to Lower cost to make the health care system work for people and business**////**es**//__
 * 1) Invest in Electronic Health Information Technology Systems
 * 2) Improve Access to Prevent Disease Management Programs
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Lower Cost by Taking on Anticompetitive Actions in the Drug and Insurance Companies.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Reduce Cost of Catastrophic Illnesses for Employers and their Employees[[image:http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/ObamaHealthCare.jpg width="288" height="425" align="right"]]

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__//**The 7 ways for Affordable, Accessible Coverage Options for all**//__
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Guaranteed Eligibility
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">New Affordable Accessible Health Insurance Options
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Tax Credits for Families and Small Businesses
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Employer Contribution
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Require Coverage of Children
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Expansion Of Medicaid and SCHIP
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Flexibility for State Plans

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__//**The 5 ways for Promoting Prevention & Strengthening Public Health**//__
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Employers
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">School System
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Workforce
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Individuals and Families
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Federal, State, and Local Governments

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">U.S. workers and employers get 23% less health-care spending than Britain, Canada, France, Germany, or Japan, and 46% less than in Brazil, China, or India, according to a Business Roundtable study of the U.S. health-care system.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">health care is to expensive and many cant afford it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The price that the U.S citizens pay for health insurance increased 30 percent from 2001 to 2005, while income for the same period of time only increased 3 percent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The number of people who are underinsured has grown 60 percent to 25 million over the past four years
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The highest rate of underinsurance is in families with incomes under the poverty level (about $20,000), at 31 percent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">45 percent of the adults in the survey reported that they had a hard time paying their bills, even with health insurance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Approximately 50 percent of personal bankruptcies are due to medical expenses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The United States health care system is recognized as one of the worst - 48 million are uninsured, 25 million are underinsured
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">eight out of ten workers of their dependents. __//<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">
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