July 23, 2009

Obama: Health Care Reform Will Boost Economy

In President Obama’s July 22 nationally televised address to the country, he said that health care reform is key to restoring the economy and that without immediate congressional action, “We are guaranteed to see Medicare and Medicaid basically break the federal budget,” The Washington Post reports.

Obama aims to extend health coverage to the 46 million Americans who cannot afford it, as well as to lower the skyrocketing cost of health care. Obama challenged Congress to send him a health reform bill that will broaden coverage, limit cost increases over the long term and remain deficit neutral. He is pushing to get the legislation through both chambers of Congress before the August 7 summer recess.

“This debate is not a game…[and Americans] can’t afford to wait any longer for reform. They’re counting on us to get this done,” Obama said. “They’re looking to us for leadership. And we can’t let them down.”

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Linda, Baltimore, 2009-08-12 20:21:41
does anyone realize the new plan lets Illegal people in this country to get it too.again Illegals will be living off off of Americans. I dont mean to offend anyone we all came from somewhere else at one time. but our ancestors came here Legally & didnt live off of no one. Illegals here get drivers liscence and what I had gone threw get mine transfered I dont know how they could get them, that stops in 2010. they dont pay taxes to work so Americans have to pay more taxes to make up for them.

RON WILLIAMS, EAST CHICAGO, 2009-07-29 10:20:00
I have read several comments concerning the new health care plan, and most have nothing to do with the actual plan, just varied opinions. 1. If the government stayed out of health care we would not have Medicare or Medicaid, 2. if these plans worked for the nation we would not have the corruption that exist in billing and service. 3. people fail to realize England and Canada both have national plans that allow care for all it's citizens and have yet to go broke, and we deserve as much.

Lon, Odessa, 2009-07-28 21:51:03
I am a senior with 17 yrs of living with HIV. I also have had 3 angioplasties. Since I am on Medicare, A,B,& D, and, fortunately, been able to obtain treatment for both, but am scared to death about what this new Health Bill will do to the care that has kept me as healthy as I still am. The gov't needs to stay out of the dispensing of medical care by "idiots" that they are proposing to operate the "new" system.