Healthcare Reform Moving Forward
Despite the massive government spending that has already taken place in an effort to fix the ailing economy, the new administration is still moving forward with it’s plans to revamp the nation’s healthcare system.
A top Obama administration official predicts that comprehensive health care reform legislation could reach the Senate floor by this summer.
Since shortly after President Obama took office in January, administration officials, members of Congress and congressional staffers have been meeting on health care reform legislation, said Nancy-Ann DeParle, the director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
There is no question it is going to be a tough fight in Congress because of the expected cost. The country is probably going to run trillion dollar deficit for at least the next three years just to fix the broken financial system.
However, there is no question that something needs to change in this country as far as healthcare is concerned. The clock is ticking on the insolvency of Medicare.
For the amount of money this country already spends on healthcare it’s ridiculous how many people are uninsured. We spend more than any other country in the world per capita on healthcare, yet approximately a sixth of the population is still uninsured.
Any meaningful reform will need to make a concerted effort at controlling costs up and down the healthcare chain, otherwise it will just be smoke and mirrors and spreading the costs to taxpayers.
