The Story of the Affordable Care Act: From an Unmet Promise to the Law of the Land
Mopeder
2012/07/04 14:23:28
March 23rd, 2012 was the Affordable Care Act's two year anniversary.
This video shows the road to health reform and how the president delivered affordable health care for all Americans.
The new law is making health care work better for all of us, even if you already have insurance. It puts the health of your family first—ensuring access to free preventive care and protecting consumers from insurance company abuses.
It also provides:
Benefits for all Americans:
-32 million: Number of Americans who will access affordable health coverage thanks to President Obama's health care law.
Benefits for young people:
-2.5 million: Number of young people who have been able to stay on their parents' health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act
Benefits for seniors:
-The Affordable Care Act is making Medicare stronger, and helps you save on the services you already rely on.
Learn how the Affordable Care Act benefits you: https://my.barackobama.com/acaanniversaryvid
Top Opinion
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Linda 2012/07/04 15:18:57
I still think that we need at least a Public Option. That would keep the insurance companies from screwing with the lower middle class and working poor. It would also cut down on the percent of GDP we put towards healthcare. Why do we spend more than any other country? Because to insurance companies, that's all profit!
Because we have disconnected normal marketplace forces from the healthcare sector of the economy. What instititution is responsible for virtually all of the disconnect? Government, which has intervened constantly in the healthcare marketplace over the past several decades.
So the answer to that problem is MORE government intervention?
Want to guess what sector of the healthcare market has NOT increased in cost faster than inflation for the past few decades?
Answer: Cosmetic surgery.
Want to guess why?
And the fact that you point to the US healthcare system costing more because of government is hysterical, mostly because every other developed world has Government-controlled healthcare, aka Single Payer. To say that we spend more of our GDP because we have government involved would imply that if more government was involved, we'd spend more of our GDP, when in fact statistics show the opposite.
Thank You President Obama.
HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT & NOT A PRIVILEGE! Scripture tells me:
Beloved, I wish above ALL THINGS that thou mayest prosper & BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospers.
Take that Paul Ryan!
We rank 38th in the world for our health systems overall performance against other countries who have a UHC system in place. No one's system is perfect including ours yet their people favor theirs 85% over having a system like ours, WHY?
We spend 17.2% of GDP on only 15% of the people for health care. The average of 11% GDP is spent on 100% of the people for their care and it works. EU has rules that improve the care to the people greatly.
Emergency services are treated as top priority and they have fewer deaths in nearly all medical conditions that plague people than us. And THE most important thing in their system....DOCTORS make all the decisions not people in suits. Their government people has NO say whatsoever in the decision needed to treat you.
NO referrals are needed, NO approval by a panel needed, NO red tape to go through for ANY procedures. There you are found to have cancer, you start treatment in less than 2 weeks. Here it can take up to a month to get approval by your insurance companies and expect to co-pay for...
We rank 38th in the world for our health systems overall performance against other countries who have a UHC system in place. No one's system is perfect including ours yet their people favor theirs 85% over having a system like ours, WHY?
We spend 17.2% of GDP on only 15% of the people for health care. The average of 11% GDP is spent on 100% of the people for their care and it works. EU has rules that improve the care to the people greatly.
Emergency services are treated as top priority and they have fewer deaths in nearly all medical conditions that plague people than us. And THE most important thing in their system....DOCTORS make all the decisions not people in suits. Their government people has NO say whatsoever in the decision needed to treat you.
NO referrals are needed, NO approval by a panel needed, NO red tape to go through for ANY procedures. There you are found to have cancer, you start treatment in less than 2 weeks. Here it can take up to a month to get approval by your insurance companies and expect to co-pay for the treatment.
All the lies and myths spreading about others systems has done nothing but put egg on the face of America thinking they are the experts in knowing how other countries run their system.
IF he wins the election (which I seriously doubt he will) he has no obligation to keep even ONE campaign promise.
Medicaid is for real low income people.
Congress began looting the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid trust funds in 1968. Congress began paying general fund expenditures with monies from the above 3 trust funds at that time. The programs may have worked if the govt had kept their hands out of the proverbial cookie jar.
That is one of the reasons that I really don't want to trust Congress with health care revenue taxes.