Four Minutes With President Obama. An Excellent Video! A Great Health Plan!
Joseph Raglione
September 22, 2009
When every United States citizen learns the honest facts outlining President Barack Obama's Health Care Plan, I honestly believe the United States of America will win a New Health Care System. However, if the honest facts are witheld from the people, or distorted and subverted by political or opposition Media sabotage, the loss to the U.S., and to the World, will be great!...>
In an address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama explained how health insurance reform will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance, coverage for those who donīt, and will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government.
Read the full transcript of the President's remarks.
Watch the full video of the President's remarks...>http://www.whitehouse.gov:80/issues/health_care/?e=14&ref=image
Read the full plan for health insurance reform.
Download a concise, printable version (pdf).
"I suffer no illusions that this will be an easy process. It will be hard. But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough. So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year."
President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009
Progress
The President signed the Childrenīs Health Insurance Reauthorization Act on February 4, 2009, which provides quality health care to 11 million kids 4 million who were previously uninsured.
The Presidentīs American Recovery and Reinvestment Act protects health coverage for 7 million Americans who lose their jobs through a 65 percent COBRA subsidy to make coverage affordable.
The Recovery Act also invests $19 billion in computerized medical records that will help to reduce costs and improve quality while ensuring patientsī privacy.
The Recovery Act also provides:
1 billion for prevention and wellness to improve Americaīs health and help to reduce health care costs;
1.1 billion for research to give doctors tools to make the best treatment decisions for their patients by providing objective information on the relative benefits of treatments; and
500 million for health workforce to help train the next generation of doctors and nurses.
Guiding Principles
President Obama is committed to working with Congress to pass comprehensive health reform in his first year in order to control rising health care costs, guarantee choice of doctor, and assure high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
Learn about the fundamental health insurance consumer protections included in reform.
Comprehensive health care reform can no longer wait. Rapidly escalating health care costs are crushing family, business, and government budgets. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have doubled in the last 9 years, a rate 3 times faster than cumulative wage increases. This forces families to sit around the kitchen table to make impossible choices between paying rent or paying health premiums. Given all that we spend on health care, American families should not be presented with that choice. The United States spent approximately $2.2 trillion on health care in 2007, or $7,421 per person nearly twice the average of other developed nations. Americans spend more on health care than on housing or food. If rapid health cost growth persists, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2025, one out of every four dollars in our national economy will be tied up in the health system. This growing burden will limit other investments and priorities that are needed to grow our economy. Rising health care costs also affect our economic competitiveness in the global economy, as American companies compete against companies in other countries that have dramatically lower health care costs.
The President has vowed that the health reform process will be different in his Administration an open, inclusive, and transparent process where all ideas are encouraged and all parties work together to find a solution to the health care crisis. Working together with members of Congress, doctors and hospitals, businesses and unions, and other key health care stakeholders, the President is committed to making sure we finally enact comprehensive health care reform.
The Administration believes that comprehensive health reform should:
Reduce long-term growth of health care costs for businesses and government
Protect families from bankruptcy or debt because of health care costs
Guarantee choice of doctors and health plans
Invest in prevention and wellness
Improve patient safety and quality of care
Assure affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans
Maintain coverage when you change or lose your job
End barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions
Please visit www.HealthReform.gov to learn more about the Presidentīs commitment to enacting comprehensive health reform this year.
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In an address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama explained how health insurance reform will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance, coverage for those who donīt, and will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government.
Read the full transcript of the President's remarks.
Watch the full video of the President's remarks...>http://www.whitehouse.gov:80/issues/health_care/?e=14&ref=image
Read the full plan for health insurance reform.
Download a concise, printable version (pdf).
"I suffer no illusions that this will be an easy process. It will be hard. But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough. So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year."
President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009
Progress
The President signed the Childrenīs Health Insurance Reauthorization Act on February 4, 2009, which provides quality health care to 11 million kids 4 million who were previously uninsured.
The Presidentīs American Recovery and Reinvestment Act protects health coverage for 7 million Americans who lose their jobs through a 65 percent COBRA subsidy to make coverage affordable.
The Recovery Act also invests $19 billion in computerized medical records that will help to reduce costs and improve quality while ensuring patientsī privacy.
The Recovery Act also provides:
1 billion for prevention and wellness to improve Americaīs health and help to reduce health care costs;
1.1 billion for research to give doctors tools to make the best treatment decisions for their patients by providing objective information on the relative benefits of treatments; and
500 million for health workforce to help train the next generation of doctors and nurses.
Guiding Principles
President Obama is committed to working with Congress to pass comprehensive health reform in his first year in order to control rising health care costs, guarantee choice of doctor, and assure high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
Learn about the fundamental health insurance consumer protections included in reform.
Comprehensive health care reform can no longer wait. Rapidly escalating health care costs are crushing family, business, and government budgets. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have doubled in the last 9 years, a rate 3 times faster than cumulative wage increases. This forces families to sit around the kitchen table to make impossible choices between paying rent or paying health premiums. Given all that we spend on health care, American families should not be presented with that choice. The United States spent approximately $2.2 trillion on health care in 2007, or $7,421 per person nearly twice the average of other developed nations. Americans spend more on health care than on housing or food. If rapid health cost growth persists, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2025, one out of every four dollars in our national economy will be tied up in the health system. This growing burden will limit other investments and priorities that are needed to grow our economy. Rising health care costs also affect our economic competitiveness in the global economy, as American companies compete against companies in other countries that have dramatically lower health care costs.
The President has vowed that the health reform process will be different in his Administration an open, inclusive, and transparent process where all ideas are encouraged and all parties work together to find a solution to the health care crisis. Working together with members of Congress, doctors and hospitals, businesses and unions, and other key health care stakeholders, the President is committed to making sure we finally enact comprehensive health care reform.
The Administration believes that comprehensive health reform should:
Reduce long-term growth of health care costs for businesses and government
Protect families from bankruptcy or debt because of health care costs
Guarantee choice of doctors and health plans
Invest in prevention and wellness
Improve patient safety and quality of care
Assure affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans
Maintain coverage when you change or lose your job
End barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions
Please visit www.HealthReform.gov to learn more about the Presidentīs commitment to enacting comprehensive health reform this year.
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Speaking on health insurance reform at the University of Maryland, the President sees some of the same passion for change that consumed much of the country for the years leading up to his election.
Updated with video.
READ THIS POST
SUN, SEPTEMBER 13, 11:58 AM EST
Fired Up? Ready to Go?
The President takes his case for reform from the heart of Washington out on the road, where an enthusiastic crowd shows a snapshot of the hunger all over the country.
Updated with video.
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The President discusses a staggering new report from the Treasury Department indicating that under the status quo, around half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. He pledges not to allow this future to unfold.
Includes video.
FRI, SEPTEMBER 18, 1:22 PM EST
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