Mitt Romney’s Ideas: Repeal and replace Obamacare with a new health care system
1. Increasing the coverage of health care for people below the poverty level 2. Adding flexibility to the system to help chronically ill and uninsured people 3. Not obligating the health care plan for all the citizens 4. Giving the responsibility to the states to create a health care plan that would suit their citizens best 5. Cutting health care taxes 6. Placing the patient in the center of attention to provide the best quality and the cheapest cost
ObamaCare’s Flaws: Failure to institute a plan that got the citizens insured without raising taxes and without a government takeover
1. Adding a trillion dollars in new health care spending 2. Increasing the taxes by 500 billion dollars for middle-class citizens 3. Heading towards government takeover (worsening the economy and destroying the federal budget)
HEALTH CARE
Lately, health care had been a hot issue in the United States. Medicare is a system of health insurance for people over 65 and for certain younger people with disabilities. The government has been working on the process of making the most efficient and beneficial heath care plan for the Americans, which makes up one-sixth of the American economy. We are trying to increase the coverage of Medicare as well as increasing the investment in Medicare. However, to make health care more beneficial, the government would have to increase the health care costs and taxes as well, which would cause more problems. Although, the health care issues are not a priority in the election, the issue plays a fairly big role. Therefore, both the President and I concentrated a lot of attention on and came up with different solutions for health care issues.
Currently, the United States are using the
health care plan developed by the current President of the US, called Obamacare. Obamacare provides affordable health care for all the American citizens, especially for people who cannot afford private insurance. Only the minority of the population with the income over 250 thousand dollars pays the Obamacare tax to increase the coverage for people below the poverty level. Moreover, the current health care cuts 716 billion dollars of useless spending on Medicare and reinvests it back into Obamacare, making the system more solid and beneficial. The Affordable Care Act reduces the health care cost as well as providing tax relief, becoming the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history. And finally, Obamacare plans on reducing the national deficit by a trillion dollars over the next two decades.
However, for every advantage there is a disadvantage. The current health care program made innovative changes in the fields of medicine and provided it to every citizen of America, but lack of coverage, inefficiency and high costs are the problems that still have to be solved. Therefore, I would like to repeal Obamacare as soon as I become elected as the President and replace it with a new health care program. The new plan will include many changes that would solve the problems caused by the Obamacare. First of all, I would like to increase the coverage of health care for people below the poverty level and add flexibility to the system to help chronically ill and uninsured people. Secondly, the health care would no longer be mandatory and every person would have the freedom to create his or her own health care plan. As I previously stated in an article of USA Today: “What we need is a free market, federalist approach to making quality, affordable health insurance available to every American. Each state should be allowed to pursue its own solution in this regard, instead of being dictated to by Washington” (USA Today, Mitt Romney). I truly believe that the states should have the responsibility to create a health care plan that would suit their citizens best, as the states government knows more about the needs of the people than the federal government that does not have a direct access to public grievances. Each state has different people, illnesses and issues; so one-size-fits-all health care would be too broad for such a variety of people throughout the fifty states of America. Then, people would not have to pay extra taxes and unnecessary bills. The people of America would only have to pay for what they are insured for (or what they had chosen for as their health care plan). Finally, the plan would place the patient in the center of attention to provide the best quality and the cheapest cost, after giving the consumers all the necessary information about the health care. These revolutionary changes will play a great role in health care development and satisfaction of the Americans.
Therefore, to increase the effectiveness of the health care system and lower the taxes, Obamacare has to be repealed and a new innovative health care must take its place. There are many flaws to the currently existing Obamacare. The biggest failure of Obama was adding a trillion dollars in new health care spending, which increased the taxes by 500 billion dollars for middle-class citizens. The other 500 billion dollars had to be taken from Medicare to pay for the Obamacare. Moreover, the greater problem is that Obamacare is going towards the wrong direction, which is government takeover. The current health care is worsening the economy and destroying the federal budget. Spending colossal amount of money towards Obamacare only decreases the efficiency of the program and discourages the innovators to invest money in technology. However, “[w]hen I was governor of Massachusetts, we instituted a plan that got our citizens insured without raising taxes and without a government takeover” (USA Today, Mitt Romney). Obama failed to do so and I am confident that as the President of the United States of America, I will carry on my own ideas on health care, which would cut taxes for middle-class citizens and decrease the government spending. Moreover, my program will be based on the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” (US Constitution). As I said before, the new health care system must give the choice for the states to customize the health care plans to create the best plan for their citizens, instead of generalizing the health care plan for 300 million people. The new program would cut unnecessary expenses, making it a more efficient health care program. Health care is one of the most important issues that I am dealing with; therefore, abolishing Obamacare and replacing it with my health care system would be my first priority as the President.
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MITT ROMNEY - HEALTH CARE - Hyuk Jin Chung
Mitt Romney reacts to health care ruling
Mitt Romney’s Ideas:
Repeal and replace Obamacare with a new health care system
1. Increasing the coverage of health care for people below the poverty level
2. Adding flexibility to the system to help chronically ill and uninsured people
3. Not obligating the health care plan for all the citizens
4. Giving the responsibility to the states to create a health care plan that would suit their citizens best
5. Cutting health care taxes
6. Placing the patient in the center of attention to provide the best quality and the cheapest cost
ObamaCare’s Flaws:
Failure to institute a plan that got the citizens insured without raising taxes and without a government takeover
1. Adding a trillion dollars in new health care spending
2. Increasing the taxes by 500 billion dollars for middle-class citizens
3. Heading towards government takeover (worsening the economy and destroying the federal budget)
HEALTH CARE
Lately, health care had been a hot issue in the United States. Medicare is a system of health insurance for people over 65 and for certain younger people with disabilities. The government has been working on the process of making the most efficient and beneficial heath care plan for the Americans, which makes up one-sixth of the American economy. We are trying to increase the coverage of Medicare as well as increasing the investment in Medicare. However, to make health care more beneficial, the government would have to increase the health care costs and taxes as well, which would cause more problems. Although, the health care issues are not a priority in the election, the issue plays a fairly big role. Therefore, both the President and I concentrated a lot of attention on and came up with different solutions for health care issues.
Currently, the United States are using the
health care plan developed by the current President of the US, called Obamacare. Obamacare provides affordable health care for all the American citizens, especially for people who cannot afford private insurance. Only the minority of the population with the income over 250 thousand dollars pays the Obamacare tax to increase the coverage for people below the poverty level. Moreover, the current health care cuts 716 billion dollars of useless spending on Medicare and reinvests it back into Obamacare, making the system more solid and beneficial. The Affordable Care Act reduces the health care cost as well as providing tax relief, becoming the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history. And finally, Obamacare plans on reducing the national deficit by a trillion dollars over the next two decades.
However, for every advantage there is a disadvantage. The current health care program made innovative changes in the fields of medicine and provided it to every citizen of America, but lack of coverage, inefficiency and high costs are the problems that still have to be solved. Therefore, I would like to repeal Obamacare as soon as I become elected as the President and replace it with a new health care program. The new plan will include many changes that would solve the problems caused by the Obamacare. First of all, I would like to increase the coverage of health care for people below the poverty level and add flexibility to the system to help chronically ill and uninsured people. Secondly, the health care would no longer be mandatory and every person would have the freedom to create his or her own health care plan. As I previously stated in an article of USA Today: “What we need is a free market, federalist approach to making quality, affordable health insurance available to every American. Each state should be allowed to pursue its own solution in this regard, instead of being dictated to by Washington” (USA Today, Mitt Romney). I truly believe that the states should have the responsibility to create a health care plan that would suit their citizens best, as the states government knows more about the needs of the people than the federal government that does not have a direct access to public grievances. Each state has different people, illnesses and issues; so one-size-fits-all health care would be too broad for such a variety of people throughout the fifty states of America. Then, people would not have to pay extra taxes and unnecessary bills. The people of America would only have to pay for what they are insured for (or what they had chosen for as their health care plan). Finally, the plan would place the patient in the center of attention to provide the best quality and the cheapest cost, after giving the consumers all the necessary information about the health care. These revolutionary changes will play a great role in health care development and satisfaction of the Americans.
Therefore, to increase the effectiveness of the health care system and lower the taxes, Obamacare has to be repealed and a new innovative health care must take its place. There are many flaws to the currently existing Obamacare. The biggest failure of Obama was adding a trillion dollars in new health care spending, which increased the taxes by 500 billion dollars for middle-class citizens. The other 500 billion dollars had to be taken from Medicare to pay for the Obamacare. Moreover, the greater problem is that Obamacare is going towards the wrong direction, which is government takeover. The current health care is worsening the economy and destroying the federal budget. Spending colossal amount of money towards Obamacare only decreases the efficiency of the program and discourages the innovators to invest money in technology. However, “[w]hen I was governor of Massachusetts, we instituted a plan that got our citizens insured without raising taxes and without a government takeover” (USA Today, Mitt Romney). Obama failed to do so and I am confident that as the President of the United States of America, I will carry on my own ideas on health care, which would cut taxes for middle-class citizens and decrease the government spending. Moreover, my program will be based on the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” (US Constitution). As I said before, the new health care system must give the choice for the states to customize the health care plans to create the best plan for their citizens, instead of generalizing the health care plan for 300 million people. The new program would cut unnecessary expenses, making it a more efficient health care program. Health care is one of the most important issues that I am dealing with; therefore, abolishing Obamacare and replacing it with my health care system would be my first priority as the President.
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