All Americans Insured Is A Possibility Without A Significant Spending Increase
If you carefully analyze Obama’s proposal for health care, you will realise that it is possible to see all Americans insured without a major rise in spending. 15 percent of Americans amounting to 46 million people do not have health insurance. Americans pay more money per person for health care than other industrialized countries. Notwithstanding this, Americans have poorer health, encounter more medical mistakes and also are more unhappy with their health care services than other industrialized countries.
The Commonwealth Fund released a report on Friday which suggests a plan outlined by Obama and Max Baucus which could cover all Americans. For this all Americans would need to obtain coverage and efforts would have to be made to reduce costs and administrative expenses.
The kind of plan suggested would come close to universal health care with only a slight cost increase. A national insurance exchange has been suggested by both Baucus and Obama. Cost saving has become very important due to the recession. Rep. Pete Stark has suggested a plan as well which would broaden Medicare access.
Obama’s and Baucus’ plan are likely to increase expenditure by only 1 percent. This is a small price to pay for universal health care.
