Obama: Health Care Reform is coming
Los Angeles – Over the last 15 years the health care crisis in America has been spinning out of control. The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country with 45 million people uninsured. The amount of insurance that many businesses pay to cover their works has risen dramatically, affecting their overall competiveness. Recent evidence of this is the financial problems that the automakers are facing with their largest cost being to provide health care for their employees. The only real winners with the current system are the insurance companies. Who can automatically refuse to cover someone who has an existing condition.
To combat this spiraling problem President Obama is promising to make major reforms to the current health care system offering universal coverage and reasonable costs for everyone. To help implement this sweeping reform he has appointed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of health and human services and Nancy-Ann DeParle as head of the White House Office for Health Reform. The two have an extensive track record of working with across the isle and experience working with health care related issues.
What all of this shows is that while the current system is broken, President Obama is serious about making major changes to the health care industry. The recent appointments of Sebelius and DeParle show that the President wants a bi partisan solution that can work for both Republicans and Democrats. At the very least it would not be surprising to see some form of universal coverage and price controls as part of Obama’s plan.