Prior to Barack Obama’s term in office, the health care system in America was a disaster. The goal of hospitals and insurance companies is to make a profit for their investors. If hospitals and insurance companies run under the same principles as manufacturing companies, eventually they have to make cuts and sacrifices to make that profit. The patients are those being cut and . Medicare before Obama allowed hospitals and insurance companies to drop ill patients and deny claims of patients with pre-existing conditions such as asthma and diabetes. Many Americans did not have healthcare insurance because it was expensive, often prohibitively so. Costs have been going up sharply over the past decade, and wages have been stagnant for twenty years. Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in March of 2010. It ensures Americans who didn't have insurance with preexisting conditions and parents of children with preexisting conditions are able to purchase the coverage they need. The insurance companies are unable to place lifetime limits or restrictive annual limits on amount of care people can receive. The Affordable Care Act is holding insurance companies accountable, putting an end to the worst abuses, such as capping or dropping coverage when sickness strikes. President Obama is putting an end to the health insurance company practice of charging women more than men for the same coverage. Obamacare allows children to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until the age of twenty-six. Obama points to Obamacare care as the main way he has strengthened Medicare in America. Before the law, the program was expected to run short of funding to cover all its costs by 2016. Obamacare consists of affordable premiums, no more lifetime caps, and no more denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions. As I recently said, my plan has extended the life of Medicare by nearly a decade. My opponent Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s plan would shorten the life of Medicare and end Medicare as we know it, because they'd turn it into a voucher system. A CBO study showed that the Ryan plan would cost seniors an extra $6,400 per year in health care costs. Romney wants to block-grant Medicaid, and cut it by a third over the coming 10 years. Romney said he would be a pro-life president. The actions he would take immediately are to remove funding for Planned Parenthood (Friedman, 1). Planned Parenthood is a health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide (Who, 1). Obamacare provided six million free mammograms last year, helping more than 47 million women with private insurance get mammograms with no co-pay. Starting in 2014, breast cancer survivors will no longer be denied coverage or charged more because of their pre-existing condition. People enrolled in traditional Medicare will save an average of $4,200 in health care expenses over the next 10 years. Obamacare costs a little more, but in the end it’s helping those who can’t afford coverage get the medical care that they need.
BARACK OBAMA - HEALTH CARE
Prior to Barack Obama’s term in office, the health care system in America was a disaster. The goal of hospitals and insurance companies is to make a profit for their investors. If hospitals and insurance companies run under the same principles as manufacturing companies, eventually they have to make cuts and sacrifices to make that profit. The patients are those being cut and . Medicare before Obama allowed hospitals and insurance companies to drop ill patients and deny claims of patients with pre-existing conditions such as asthma and diabetes. Many Americans did not have healthcare insurance because it was expensive, often prohibitively so. Costs have been going up sharply over the past decade, and wages have been stagnant for twenty years.
Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in March of 2010. It ensures Americans who didn't have insurance with preexisting conditions and parents of children with preexisting conditions are able to purchase the coverage they need. The insurance companies are unable to place lifetime limits or restrictive annual limits on amount of care people can receive. The Affordable Care Act is holding insurance companies accountable, putting an end to the worst abuses, such as capping or dropping coverage when sickness strikes. President Obama is putting an end to the health insurance company practice of charging women more than men for the same coverage. Obamacare allows children to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until the age of twenty-six. Obama points to Obamacare care as the main way he has strengthened Medicare in America. Before the law, the program was expected to run short of funding to cover all its costs by 2016. Obamacare consists of affordable premiums, no more lifetime caps, and no more denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
As I recently said, my plan has extended the life of Medicare by nearly a decade. My opponent Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s plan would shorten the life of Medicare and end Medicare as we know it, because they'd turn it into a voucher system. A CBO study showed that the Ryan plan would cost seniors an extra $6,400 per year in health care costs. Romney wants to block-grant Medicaid, and cut it by a third over the coming 10 years. Romney said he would be a pro-life president. The actions he would take immediately are to remove funding for Planned Parenthood (Friedman, 1). Planned Parenthood is a health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide (Who, 1). Obamacare provided six million free mammograms last year, helping more than 47 million women with private insurance get mammograms with no co-pay. Starting in 2014, breast cancer survivors will no longer be denied coverage or charged more because of their pre-existing condition. People enrolled in traditional Medicare will save an average of $4,200 in health care expenses over the next 10 years. Obamacare costs a little more, but in the end it’s helping those who can’t afford coverage get the medical care that they need.