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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (61440)	8/25/2009 12:41:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

What do y'all think of this plan? Dates,names removed to protect the innocent. , the administration began to strategize how to reform the health care system; they sought plans that would lower cost without increasing government regluation. (Kingdon:2003) The economic and political forces in the US seemed ready to bring about changes in medical care over the opposition of providers, putting insurance companies, hospitals and physicians on the defensive. (Starr:) [edit] The Presidency blank's Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) consisted of an employer-mandate and a separate program designed to help the working poor and unemployed. The plan required employers to funnel 65% of employee health costs, eventually it would be 75%. Along with the mandates, a "system of subsidies" would be established for smaller businesses with less health options. Anyone not covered by the employer-mandate would be insured under the Assisted Health Insurance Program (AHIP) which included a combination of copayments, deductibles, and annual ceilings. () In February , blank declared HMOs to be innovations for health care that would be part of "a new national health care strategy." Blank argued that the current system operated "episodically" and it had built in an "illogical incentive" that encouraged Doctors to benefit from patient illness rather than patient health. Believing that HMOs reversed the incentives of the traditional system, Blank called on Congress to establish grant and loan programs to help HMOs grow. The goal was to create over 1,700 HMOs , enough to enroll about 40 million Americans. The proposal would have required employers to provide minimum health benefits under a National Health Insurance Standards Act. It also meant to establish a federal fund for the Family Health Insurance Program which would offer some coverage for low imcome homes. (Starr:) As part of his "National Healthcare Strategy," hecontended that HMOs were important to help provide "equal access to health care for all citizens, creating efficiencies within the existing healthcare system and dealing with the economic impact of supply and demand on the health care market" (Stahl 264). By mid-sometime, the Federal government had handed out $7 million in planning grants for HMO's, which had grown to serve over 5 million people ( 37). HMO's were viewed as a way to move patient care from an expensive hostipal to a more manageable clinic, where diseases could be prevented or stopped before they became serious and expensive (: 37). en.wikipedia.org