OBAMA’s HEALTHCARE REFORM: this is not universal healthcare
Obama’s new policy will mandate everyone into insurance. The reform delivers more customers to the insurance companies: so insurance companies win but they will have to deal with new levels of regulation. The Government will be paying the insurance companies who then stand to gain somewhat out of a nevertheless increasingly regulated healthcare model. Obama was calling for oversight at the federal level. This plan is better than the status quo but not by much. Obamacare is rather a watered down health reform with many left wing politicians believing that the plan does not do enough. They have certainly passed something DESPITE inordinate capital being expended to emphasize the weaknesses of other system of healthcare by the insurance companies and recalcitrant Republicans.
Dr. Marcia Angell on the Dissent: She believes the reforms are a mistake. Angell believes that Obama has made an amorphous plan that doesn’t go far enough: it keeps the private insurance industry in place. It will mean government mandated subsidizing of the health insurance industry. Obama gave away the store by compromising with the pharmaceutical industry on a policy level. On the political level we understand why Obama is struggling: Republicans, confused public. Now Obama is fighting for the expansion of the insurance companies. Like other industries, the health insurance companies will continue to raise their premiums which the Government will then have to pay for. The government is going to foot the bill. AS POLICY, this Healthcare reform is disappointing: it is a step in the wrong direction. Democrats have outsmarted themselves with the hope of getting this bill passed, then having Obama reelected in 2012. OBAMA’s PLAN IS A ‘THANK YOU SANTA CLAUS: love, the healthcare insurance industry’. The healthcare insurance industry are going to get more customers: and the bill does not make serious steps to reduce the cost of US healthcare which is currently twice any other Western democratic country (per capita).
The Key Points: Very Disappointing
– The reforms calls for keeping 26 year olds under their parent’s plans.
– The reforms calls for the end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions.
– The reforms calls for the mandating of every individual into the health insurance system (on Gov’t funds).
– The reforms will reduce the deficit in the next 10 years by reducing the costs of healthcare.
– The bill will eventually tax the Cadillac healthcare plans, BUT the health insurance companies still remain.
– Obama’s plan might not actually work to force everyone into the health insurance system: Massachussetts’ demonstrated how such a system might fail where not everyone gets insured as individuals decided to seek coverage.
– US cannot aim for a universal healthcare system within a prism where the insurance industry calls the shots.
– AMERICAN’s need to think about reform again after 2010 but that’s probably in 15 year or so. American’s have to engage in dealing with its poorly ranked healthcare system again in a rational manner. American healthcare is ranked 27th in the world below Bolivia. These reforms are not even remotely a form of universal healthcare if the system remains a privatized one.