Will the Presidents Health plan work for you?

Question

My staff and I plan to use these messages as a way to directly communicate about important issues and opportunities, and today I have some encouraging updates about health care reform.

The Vice President and I just met with leaders from the House of Representatives and received their commitment to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill by July 31.

We also have an unprecedented commitment from health care industry leaders, many of whom opposed health reform in the past. Monday, I met with some of these health care stakeholders, and they pledged to do their part to reduce the health care spending growth rate, saving more than two trillion dollars over the next ten years -- around $2,500 for each American family. Then on Tuesday, leaders from some of America's top companies came to the White House to showcase innovative ways to reduce health care costs by improving the health of their workers.

Now the House and Senate are beginning a critical debate that will determine the health of our nation's economy and its families. This process should be transparent and inclusive and its product must drive down costs, assure quality and affordable health care for everyone, and guarantee all of us a choice of doctors and plans.

Reforming health care should also involve you. Think of other people who may want to stay up to date on health care reform and other national issues and tell them to join us here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/EmailUpdates

Health care reform can't come soon enough. We spend more on health care than any country, but families continue to struggle with skyrocketing premiums and nearly 46 million are without insurance entirely. It is a priority for the American people and a pillar of the new foundation we are seeking to build for our economy.

We'll continue to keep you posted about this and other important issues.

Thank you,
Barack Obama

P.S. If you'd like to get more in-depth information about health reform and how you can participate, be sure to visit http://www.HealthReform.gov.

Answer 1

As usual I will be paying in a lot more than I take out. Most people will. Tom Daschle will be setting policy and is a big fan of Eugenics, so rationing care will swiftly rid America of anyone old enough to remember a time before the Communist Takeover.

Answer 2

I'm just a Canadian. Universal health care generally works pretty well up here. Mostly because of the attitude of the citizenry. We are committed to it and will tolerate very little compromise, despite continual pressure from doctors and pharmaceutical companies to create media hoopla and fear, and thereby seize control of the system for their own greedy interests. Despite the limitations of managed health care, doctors are still very well paid, drug companies make trillions, and everybody mostly gets good service.



The fact that Canada is not a particularly litigious society also helps. My mom's brother died of cancer, largely because his doctor missed all the signs, even when he was clearly getting really sick. Nobody sued anybody. The doctor is still our family doctor, by our choice. He did his best, and he answers to his conscience. Mistakes still happen. He's a good doctor.



I think it would be a great thing if America built it's new economy on the pillar of health care. It's got a much better future than war and speculation. Americans have always been innovative, flexible, and productive. It's difficult right now to see how it might work. In my own opinion the fact that America is such a large society is a big part of what makes it so expensive and unmanageable. But I hope that you folks can find a way to make your massive size work for you rather than against you in this case, and very soon. It can't come too soon. The longer your work force goes without care, the more expensive the human cost will be in the long and the short run.

Answer 3

It can help even though I am just here in the Philippines,I am happy to know of someone helping others.