Obamas Health Care Reform Proposal

Congressional Democrats moved the ball forward on healthcare reform Tuesday, introducing a $1 trillion bill in the House. As a leading priority of the President and Congress, attaining complete health reform has came out. For health reform, President Obama has outlined eight principles.

A number of comprehensive reform proposals have been announced as the debate starts over how to overhaul the health care system, in Congress. President Obama's budget proposal called for creating a $634 billion fund to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.

The parties agree on several principles, including an emphasis on preventive care, cost-cutting measures in the existing Medicare and Medicaid programs, and a halt to denials of coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

For a budget-neutral plan that would include taxing some employer-provided health care benefits for workers, the proposal called by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The plan closed little of an absolute government-funded public health care choice, but also called for different forms of government assistance to help make coverage more inexpensive and available.

While the permission for individual coverage is opposed by Republicans, the both taxing health care benefits and the lack of a public option goes against stated Democratic positions.

Download a printable version of the two Congressional authorizing committee proposals (.pdf)

Download a printable side-by-side comparison of all proposals and topics (.pdf)

For Proposal visit www.HealthReform.gov to learn more about the President’s commitment to enacting comprehensive health reform this year.

Source: boston.com

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