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Health Care Bill to Reduce Deficit by $81 Billion, Increasing GOP Support

Even Republicans are starting to understand that America needs health insurance reform now!

Former Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole said:

This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes. ... If we don’t do it this year I don’t know when we’re gonna do it.

Dole has joined other prominent Republicans who have “come out in support of health care reform.”

Maybe it has something to do with the growing understanding that the status quo is unacceptable and that for our financial security we much reform health insurance.

From AP:

Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief after a positive cost report on health care overhaul gave them a chance to rally around a Senate plan that significantly expands coverage while trimming the federal deficit.

The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the latest version of the Senate Finance Committee proposal would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion.

The budget umpires added that the legislation would reduce federal deficits by $81 billion over a decade and could lead to continued reductions in federal red ink in the years beyond.

Comments

milan milenkovic | October 14, 2009 – 6:01 pm

PR.OBAMA CAN SIGH H. CARE REFORM AS A LAW , AROUND THANKSGIVING 2009.

After that MOST Americans will accept and support this reform as fantastic and necessary CHANGE ...

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane .
- Martin Luther King, Jr

I have NO doubt that Pr Obama and his Team will finish with health reform THIS YEAR.
This reform is so important : for us , for our children and for next generations…
I am sure that Pr Obama will not sign a health care bill that is not right or it’s not deficit neutral…
This plan put a patient first, and offer that American people can receive QUALITY, affordable health care with electronic medical records and it will cut a health care COSTS and our national deficit on long run

Health Insurance Reform is part of Health Care Reform, where Public option will be just a new
competitor with private ins companies
- No more preexisting conditions;
- Ins. companies will NOT cancel your h. ins if you get sick ;
- ANNUALLY / ROUTINE check up - to prevent chr disease , to detect cancer in early stage ... - on this way we can save lives and save a money for health care;
- Children would continue to be eligible for family coverage through the age of 26 ;
- Health Ins Exchange ;
- Cups out-of-pocket expenses;
- Eliminates the prescription drug “ donut-hole” gap;
- Protects Medicare ;
- tax credit for small business…

This is NOT a single-payer plan ( like Medicare), and Hospitals and Drugs Companies are ready to help financially, reducing there costs. Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser ... they already have higher quality in health care and there casts are 20 - 30 % lower than national average.

People who oppose Pr Obama’s health care plan, are concern about:

1. that government will be in charge of health care, even Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s
Health Ins Program, VA, Military h. ins… are government programs, and already run very
successful for 83 million Americans ( 27.8% population) When we finish with health reform,
THIS YEAR , I am sure that money will be use wisely to improve health care system in USA .

2. Costs of health care reform:

- as Pr Obama already said, 2/3 of the cost to cover around 94 % Americans is already in the health care system, that taxpayers are paying, but has to be use wisely; ( h. care cost will be around $ 83 billion / yr , what is much less than what we are paying now: $ 2.2 trillion / yr. or 16 % of our GDP .
( this bill would leave 18 million Americans uninsured - 6 %, excluding illegal immigrants).
- NO medical fraud - on this way, we can save an estimated $100 billion in annual costs to
Americans;
- PREVENTION ( obesity, diabetes, heart disease/ hypertension, smoking , substance abuse
prevention, cancer , HIV/AIDS…) - if we prevent chr. disease and detect cancer
in early stage ... - we can save lives and save a money for health care.
- Reduce Unnecessary Health Bureaucracy ;
- Everybody has to perches h. ins( like with car ins); penalty for people who doesn’t want to
buy h. ins.
- Eliminating excessive government subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans could save the
Federal government, taxpayers, and Medicare beneficiaries well over $100 billion over the next
10 years.
- Mayo Clinic, one of the best in the World, shows that estimated 30 - 40 % of health care spending is associated with failures - i.e. duplication, poor communication”.

I think that Lower costs for Doctors Malpractice Insurance ( to cap the highest possible award
for non-economic claims in a verdict to $250,000) is a good idea; doctors can focus more on
patients, because patient SAFETY is in medicine priority.

Everybody agree that status quo in health care is UNACCEPTABLE , and it’s good that so many people are involved in discussion about health reform, because health care problem is our NATIONAL PROBLEM
Now we need Congress , as a next step, to do what is the best for American people and this country. For all very important issues in our life, we have to set up timetable ...

This reform “ is NOT about politics. This is about people’s lives. This is about peoples businesses. This is about our future” - Pr Obama.

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