subject: Updates On Health Care Reform [print this page] Updates On Health Care Reform Updates On Health Care Reform
Mr. Obama's single most important thing he has done since being in office, as President for the past two years, is get the health care bill passed. It was signed into legislation March 23, 2010 in an attempt to fix an ongoing medical dilemma the United States has. It will guarantee that millions of Americans across the USA will have medical coverage. Not a single Republican voted for the bill and it has been the President's most controversial move yet. The Republicans want to repeal the health care bill. Both sides know it would be next to impossible to just get rid of the health care bill. In September a number of important parts of the bill came into effect. Insurers are now banned from dropping expensive clients with multiple expensive health issues and pre-existing conditions. You can now also keep your children on your insurance until they are 26 years old.
Thirty million people who do not have health care coverage will now get coverage. It is some thing that Harry Truman and Bill Clinton tried to do but failed. Mr. Obama will go down in history as the President who accomplished this great feat that no other President could make happen.
Medicaid will get new participants to the tune of 16 million after the new health care becomes a law. Low to middle income participants would be subsidized for private insurance companies. There will be no denial for pre-existing conditions. The law will cost the government 938 billion dollars over the next ten years.
