Doctors Heal Thyselves – Obama On Health Care Costs
Posted on February 13th, 2010 by admin
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Video and text from the White House
Tuesday the President hosted a meeting that marked one of the most promising signs for health reform to date, and not only because the topic was saving more than $2 trillion on health care costs. Representatives from hospitals, the insurance industry, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, labor and physicians came to the White House to discuss major steps being taken to lower health care costs across the board.
The President explained the significance of having so many diverse stakeholders at the table:
And that’s what makes today’s meeting so remarkable — because it’s a meeting that might not have been held just a few years ago. The groups who are here today represent different constituencies with different sets of interests. They’ve not always seen eye to eye with each other or with our government on what needs to be done to reform health care in this country. In fact, some of these groups were among the strongest critics of past plans for comprehensive reform.
But what’s brought us all together today is a recognition that we can’t continue down the same dangerous road we’ve been traveling for so many years; that costs are out of control; and that reform is not a luxury that can be postponed, but a necessity that cannot wait. It’s a recognition that the fictional television couple, Harry and Louise, who became the iconic faces of those who opposed health care reform in the ’90s, desperately need health care reform in 2009. And so does America.
In short, the coalition has agreed to reduce the annual health care spending growth rate by 1.5 percentage points for the next 10 years, a change that could result in savings of roughly $2,500 for American families. Some of the changes the coalition is working on, explained fully in the fact sheet, include:
· Improving Care after Hospitalizations and Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates.
· Reducing Medicare Overpayments to Private Insurers through Competitive Payments.
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February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
we dont need health …
we dont need health care reform as much as we need good paying jobs for the people so they can afford health care.lot of people working 3 min wage jobs part time with no health care.we need to quit shipping our jobs to china and start paying the people enough they can live!!!just look at the mess the govt has made of social security and worker comp.what u want to have a attorney just to get health care too?
bo stinks and so do his bigger goverment ideas.we need to vote all these jokers out.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
You spend your life …
You spend your life depending upon lies, disinformation, misrepresentations, false hopes, expectations of the Mother of all “Free Lunches”, and last of all, a “Utopia” that exists exclusively somewhere in the dusty corners of your mind and the minds of all who think as you do. Good luck with that. Grab your socks dude, you’re gonna’ get screwed!
Linda Douglas can take her place in the Dan Rather Hall of Fame.
Change It Back!
February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Please watch this …
Please watch this Youtube Video: The Health Care Bill: What they DON’T want you to know!
February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
What we are going …
What we are going to see is less choices, less quality, less competition as government gets in the way. You will see clinics close and the age of a new USSR. I work in the computer industry and government is not involved and we see better and cheaper products and services every day… maybe there is a lesson here to learn. I goto my doctor for only $50 if I want and I don’t have pre-paid insurance cause it’s not needed. Plus when has anyone gone to the hospital and been turned away?
February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
You enjoy alcohol, …
You enjoy alcohol, smokes, Coke & potato chips uncle Sam is going to hit you to pay for universal health care. Bad behavior Tax -a $2 tax on a pack of cigarettes (Obama taxed these for S-CHIP) and a higher excise tax on alcohol. Taxing tobacco, junk foods and alcohol could raise $600 billion over 10 years. People who like the tax-free status of their company health benefits could be asked to ante up. Money in the pot: more than $700 billion over 10 years. Now this is Hope & Change, Go Obama!
February 13th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
God bless Obama
God bless Obama