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President Obama's Health Care Plan: Proposals and Principles Explained
TLDR President Obama's health care plan aims to provide affordable quality health coverage for all Americans, remove obstacles to coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, invest in prevention and wellness, maintain coverage in the event of job loss or change, improve quality care and patient safety, guarantee choice of doctors and coverage plans, safeguard families from bankruptcies related to health expenses, and shrink long-term cost increases in health care for businesses and the government. The plan includes mandates for employers and individuals, subsidies for those who can't afford insurance, expansions of Medicaid and Medicare, and efforts to cut waste in the Medicaid and Medicare systems to decrease overall costs.
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President Obama's health care plan is being discussed and analyzed, with the focus on the proposals and principles laid out by Obama and the role of Congress in creating plans.
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President Obama's eight proposals for his health care plan include assuring affordable quality health coverage for all Americans, removing obstacles to coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, investing in prevention and wellness, maintaining coverage in the event of job loss or change, improving quality care and patient safety, guaranteeing choice of doctors and coverage plans, safeguarding families from bankruptcies related to health expenses, and shrinking long-term cost increases in health care for businesses and the government.
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The health care plan includes mandates for both employers and individuals, subsidies for those who can't afford insurance, and expansions of Medicaid and Medicare.
11:09
The insurance marketplace is being set up to allow the general public to get insurance plans with transparent and plain language information about costs and benefits.
14:37
Small businesses will be exempt from the requirement to provide health insurance to employees, but they will also be eligible to enter the insurance marketplace and provide insurance with the help of subsidies.
18:28
Under President Obama's health care plan, insurance companies will not be able to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and individuals with pre-existing conditions will not be charged higher premiums.
21:50
Under President Obama's health care plan, there will be no caps on spending by insurance companies, a cap on how much a consumer can pay out of pocket for their own healthcare, and efforts to cut waste in the Medicaid and Medicare systems to help decrease the overall cost of the plan.
25:32
President Obama's health care plan includes the establishment of a panel to review the effectiveness of different methods of treatment and prioritize those that work best, as well as ideas for paying for the plan such as taxing individuals who make more than $250,000 a year and eliminating the tax exemption for employer plans.
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Possible proposals for funding President Obama's health care plan include taxing individuals with high-cost health insurance plans, taxing insurance companies that offer these plans, and examining the money in employer tax exemptions.
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