The Reform of health system continues across the U.S.. The media only talk about it. Is that the reform will or will back Obama? He seems confident. (
Why people want to stop obama at new health care plan )
Since I am in California, only three days, I hear talk that this
reform of the health system that has to pass Obama. I also hear people talking about socialism. Some Americans have easy word to mouth without knowing what it really means, if this is the Cuban or Soviet bogeyman for them.
Even the president and cofounder of the green supermarket Whole Foods Market has led to a release on the subject by quoting Margaret Thatcher. This did not please consumers fairly progressive supermarket that promotes organic, equity, ethics and the environment.
Anne Sinclair said the ferocity of Obama's opponents. They will stop at nothing but Obama either. He uses every means possible to promote the reform of the health system and convince the Americans. The return will be difficult.
Richard Hetu points to the release of Katie Couric's campaign against fear and ignorance that leads the opponents of Obama. Remarkably, this bill has more than 900 comments as anything about the summons.
I am of the same opinion that Couric and Hetu. The Republicans are the champions for launch falsehoods to scare people. Dreadful while the Americans, the poorest have no access to medical coverage. Also, I like the idea of cooperatives. But there was one thing I am certain. The private sector has no business in health. We can not make money on the health of citizens. It is simply immoral. We must treat them, simply, no matter their status or size of their portfolio.
Obama has made reform of the health system a priority of his mandate. This is a hand that 47 million Americans who lack medical insurance coverage have become one and the other to save on health costs that are increasingly heavy.
A reform that goes wrong
But for now the various projects are discussed and negotiated for weeks in the House of Representatives and the Senate have not yet reached a final project and they are all subject to an intense campaign of denigration by the Republican Party on this occasion supported by private medical insurance.
The more outrageous the criticism has been repeated ad nauseam at once paid advertising on television and of course at events during the tour that Obama has made in the country to defend its reform. Obama has been accused of wanting to achieve socialism in the U.S. by nationalizing the health care system! The campaign of Republicans said that a committee appointed by the government could decide to euthanize those whose care is too expensive! Disabled people are convicted, the elderly would have their care rationed. Obama had to defend themselves and "to switch off Grandma!
Despite all his efforts, Obama has failed to restore confidence in the project, including among Democratic voters, and his popularity has suffered a sharp fall this summer.
The outline plan
To cover those who have no health insurance, Obama plans to extend a hand to the poorest of them, some 10 to 15 million people, Medicaid is an insurance paid for both by the federal government and various states. As for the thirty million people uninsured remaining, it will force them to pay for medical insurance, just when most are not insured because they can not afford! Those who do not will ensure all the same to pay a fine! Certainly, it is about giving a little something to help some people to pay, most still remain dependent on them. The idea was first used to establish a public health insurance that would compete with private insurance and by obliging them to lower their tariffs. Finally it may be that companies that pay health insurance to their employees are relieved of the obligation which they claim it costs them far too expensive (9.9% of payroll), rates of insurance companies rose much faster than wages.
All these projects have raised an outcry. Extending Medicaid to be funded initially by the federal budget should then be co-financed by the states, which arouses the indignation of the governors who say their state is already on the verge of bankruptcy. The Republicans, strongly supported by private insurance, have embarked on a frenzied campaign against the interference of government in the privacy of citizens to the point that Obama is not so sure that we should introduce a system Public Insurance. In any case, he said that it was not essential for reform! But most striking is the echo that seems delusional propaganda that has been in the population and especially among the elderly.
The reverse of the coin
As shown, it is by no means a complete overhaul of the system, but only an obligation for all of them incorporate a requirement that they will be expensive and not all will have the means to cope even with the help of public finances. For them the notes will also be very heavy since the figure estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. And this for the benefit of private insurers.
But Obama has repeatedly said that the cost of the health system was unsustainable and that its "reform" aimed to make savings. It is not difficult to understand that keeping the same health insurance system and extending it to all, the cost can only be increased unless they gripe about the funding that already exists. This was well understood that the elderly receive a federal health insurance, called Medicare, which Obama has repeatedly stated that it could achieve substantial savings. It would matter to trim some 200 billion on this program. Some 10 million people are affected by the type of planned economies and their concern is understandable.
In fact, campaign, anti, whose goals are ultra-reactionary found fertile ground in the distrust of the working population to the "reforms" to make savings. Mistrust well justified by experience that savings, it is always the same ones who are paying the price and certainly not the richest.
A team that raises the suspicion
The team that drives the reform desired by Obama does not inspire confidence. The one who directs the Office of the reform of health set up to Obama in the White House, Nancy-Ann DeParle, has already prevailed in 1997 under Clinton, to head the financing of the Medicare federal, introducing conditions which allowed private insurance companies to extract billions of dollars in additional Medicare program. She also advised the goupe JP Morgan in its investments in the field of medical insurance. She has worked with pharmaceutical companies and private hospitals. In short, is a specialist private profits achievable in the field of health.
And Obama chose as the leading advisor on a physician that the Republican campaign has been treated this "Doctor Death" by producing truncated quotations from his writings. This is Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, the brother of the Chief of Staff of Obama and bioéthiste oncologist who specializes in the study of cases of conscience when deciding which patients will be treated in case of lack of treatment he also written on the accompanying end of life. Hence the campaign about grandmothers who are disconnected and disabled who have more right to treatment. Obviously the doctor never said it, but it is nonetheless a supporter of allowing or not the use of any medical equipment or a particular drug for any particular patient depending on the value, a system that already exists, unfortunately, Great Britain under the misleading name of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE (nice, neat, in English)! It did not take more fuel to the excesses of the Republican propaganda and ... concern for future patients!
Obama wants to allow anyone, insurance, private hospitals, laboratories, medical equipment manufacturers to continue to make profits through shameless patient and public financing, giving them even a new market of millions of prospective policyholders. He can not both provide proper medical coverage and height of the progress of medicine at the whole population and savings to the federal budget. No, what is certain is that if Obama succeeded in passing a law, the general public will pay dearly for very minimal benefit and only those who can afford private insurance will be very expensive to access quality care. Nothing in the draft Obama justifies that the people be trusted.
Why people want to stop obama at new health care plan?
