How does BO plan on providing free healthcare?

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How does BO plan on providing free healthcare?

Answer 1

Hah! If you think doctors, nurses, and medical people in general are cold, indifferent and distant now, just watch how much worse it will get under a National Health Plan.

Medicine was once a calling, meaning people who genuinely wanted to help heal and care for the sick & injured became doctors, nurses, researchers, etc...

But now it's big business, and we have insurance companies calling the shots.  Let's not forget the drug companies who don't reeeeally want people well, just constantly medicated (can you say cha-ching?)

Most (though not all) medical students are pursuing medical careers for the MONEY!

Ever have to go to the ER with a less than life threatening condition?  How long were ya there???  Did they care about you while you were lying there waiting to be seen?  Did a nurse come and comfort you with kind reassuring words and a warm blanket?  Uh huh.  

Well, if you had that kind of care, you are in the minority!

So although a National Health Care Plan may make medical "care" more available, it won't make it better.  Try looking at it as the Walmart plan for the people...lots of waiting and lines with less help & more indifference than other stores.  

Answer 2

He can't because Americans have very unhealthy lifestyles. One of the reasons universal healthcare works in Europe is that people there have healthy lifestyles.  

Answer 3

BO, hahahaha...okay but serious. He doesn't plan on free Health care, but affordable.

Barack Obama's Plan

Quality, Affordable and Portable Coverage for All

Obama's Plan to Cover Uninsured Americans:

Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans, including the self-employed and small businesses, to buy affordable health coverage that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress.

The Obama plan will have the following features:

Guaranteed eligibility. No American will be turned away from any insurance plan because of illness or pre-existing conditions.

Comprehensive benefits. The benefit package will be similar to that offered through Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), the plan members of Congress have. The plan will cover all essential medical services, including preventive, maternity and mental health care.

Affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles.

Subsidies. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the new public plan or purchase a private health care plan.

Simplified paperwork and reined in health costs.

Easy enrollment. The new public plan will be simple to enroll in and provide ready access to coverage.

Portability and choice. Participants in the new public plan and the National Health Insurance Exchange (see below) will be able to move from job to job without changing or jeopardizing their health care coverage.

Quality and efficiency. Participating insurance companies in the new public program will be required to report data to ensure that standards for quality, health information technology and administration are being met.

National Health Insurance Exchange: The Obama plan will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase a private insurance plan. The Exchange will act as a watchdog group and help reform the private insurance market by creating rules and standards for participating insurance plans to ensure fairness and to make individual coverage more affordable and accessible. Insurers would have to issue every applicant a policy, and charge fair and stable premiums that will not depend upon health status. The Exchange will require that all the plans offered are at least as generous as the new public plan and have the same standards for quality and efficiency. The Exchange would evaluate plans and make the differences among the plans, including cost of services, public.

Employer Contribution: Employers that do not offer or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees will be required to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of the national plan. Small businesses will be exempt from this requirement, and will receive a new Small Business Health Tax Credit that helps reduce health care costs for small businesses.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/health...

Answer 4

taxes thats how everything is paid for