Health Reform

The American president wants to let his leading project pass of disease insurance despite the reluctance on one hand of the political class.

Barack Obama wants a reformation of the disease insurance “before the end of the year”.  At the time of a televised press conference Wednesday evening, the American president plead the urgency and advisable the points on which these it will not compromise: not question to weigh down the deficit, not question to let this reformation pay by the average class.  Barack Obama summarized the importance of the reformation of an EMR software with this figure: every day, 14 000 Americans lose their assurance.  Since September 2008, 5 millions of persons thus came to increase the rows of the some 47 millions of Americans without assurance.

But while several texts are debated in various commissions of the Congress, the conducted hypothesis of a reformation with the support of the republican minority faints a little more every day.  The one of the principal conservative leaders in this debate, the senator Jim DeMint, called for a resistance without concession.  If Barack Obama loses the battle on this central EHR project of his first mandate, “this will be his Waterloo”, declared the senator of Caroline of the South.  Of others put a little more forms to do obstacle to the reformation: they want “to take the time” to examine it, underlining that the currently discussed texts, with more than a thousand pages, are thick and complex.

Barack Obama retorts while invoking the importance to set up a maturity date to Washington.  Otherwise, he says, the natural tendency is at “inertia”.  Now, the country not itself could allow it: the plan more dear, according to him, would be of not anything to do and to leave the health costs to continue to fly away itself and to burden at once the national budget and the one of the businesses.

Tax the returned tops

The republicans are not alone to show reluctance: the centrist democrats, and especially those that will have to take difficult countries in 2010, do not want to risk being associated with the creation of a new costly medical billing software program.  These democrats would prefer to find solutions that return the private assurance more reasonable rather than to approve the creation of a “public option”.

To rally them, the president promises that the not weigh down reformation the deficit on the ten years to come.  According to the president, the reformation will be financed to the two third by realized economies while spending better the dollars already devoted to health; the political battle concerns the remaining third.

His favorite solution that is to bring back the fiscal exemptions of which profit the richest ones to the same rate than the one of the exemptions for the average class did not have success to the Congress.  It is said therefore open to other possibilities, as the one proposed to the Room: a tax for the households of which returned it surpasses a million dollars.

Barack Obama wants again to reassure in retailer them points on which these a consensus was released and while insisting on the “security” increased for those that profit currently of an assurance.  It is an aspect capital for the Americans, especially in this crisis period: it promises them that they will not lose their assurance if they change job or if they fall gravely sick.  In the end, Barack Obama discounts that the reformation will allow “97 or 98%” Americans to be assured.