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Obama's Plan For Affordable Health Insurance
By The Affordable Health Insurance
Network
One would imagine
that living in the industrialized nation of the United States
would almost guarantee affordable health care at a standard
far above the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not
the case.
There are 29 other
countries with a higher life expectancy than Americans, and
there are 38 who have lower rates of infant mortality. Even
worse, almost 50 million Americans are without health care,
and many others lack affordable health insurance.
President-Elect
Barack Obama not only has a vision of a nation without such
disparities, but he has a three-fold plan to achieve these
transformations. Barack Obama deems the following to be crucial
to his ideas:
1. First,
affordable and accessible health care should be available to
all Americans. There are several ways that Obama plans to
succeed in this. Obama believes that prescription medication
is more expensive than it needs to be. He proposes that by importing
medications from other countries, as well as utilizing generic
medications in public programs, the out of pocket expense for
those in need of prescriptions would be drastically reduced.
2.
Second, Barack Obama would like to see a health care system
that is up to date with the available modern technologies.
He feels that by doing this, there will be a reduced quantity
of medical errors that could potentially be fatal to patients.
Research has shown that there are ways in which costs can
be lowered, while simultaneously improving the medical care
that patients receive.
3.
Lastly, the President-Elect would like to see more emphasis
on preventative measures. Too often, by the time an individual
has been diagnosed with a chronic disease, it is already costing
the American people millions and millions of dollars. Many
of these chronic diseases can be prevented. With Obama's plan,
preventative measures, such as cancer screenings, will be
a requirement.
Despite
his repeated refutations, many individuals believe that Obama's
plan for affordable health care is synonymous with "socialized
medicine." On the contrary, this is not the case at all.
As he
has stated time after time, those who are satisfied with their
current medical insurance coverage will not have to change
anything; they will still be able to go to the same doctors,
clinics and hospitals. The change would benefit the insured,
as their yearly cost would go down by as much as $2,500. Those
who don't have coverage, however, would now have access to
affordable health insurance.
Hopefully,
time, energy, and effort will prove his plan to be very successful
in the near future.
The
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