Your world in charts: How health care reform will work
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Solutions that Work
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To borrow a phrase from Ezra Klein, here's a simple, easy to understand chart of how health care would work if health care reform is passed. It's really not that hard to understand, and it's certainly much more specific than the Republican plan.
For your consideration (click for bigger version and fact sheet, pdf warning):
Hello,
Thank you for providing the How Health Care Reform Will Work chart. I would like to know how the $900 billion in costs over 10 years stated by President Obama fits in to this. What will that money be spent on?
Thank you.
Small employers and individuals in the exchange will get subsidies to afford health insurance, so that's where most of the money will go to.
Thanks for the chart and the clarification on the $900 billion. However, sustainable reform is not going to happy by just shifting the payment for premiums from small businesses and individuals to the government. Mandatory health insurance is going to be a windfall for the insurance industry. Unless the insurance industry is committed to lowering the overall cost of health care this is just another cost shifting mechanism that will do nothing to solve the underlying problems of a system that is over priced for the results achieved.
I'm all for individualism and competition, but when that solution is clearly not working, then we have to be smart enough to set aside our knee jerk ideology and come up with a solution that will result in real change.
Personally, I don't see how we achieve that change except through single payer. But I am willing to give this plan a chance as long as insurance companies are going to have to provide basic coverage and not weasel out of every claim and work to reduce health care premiums. What about an absolute cap on premium increases?
what happens to our supplemental health plans like SecureHorizons
and our Rx drug plans
what and who is Acorn to much bad press
Please spread the word about the online petition to be presented to Congress demanding the implimentation of some program promoting the universal affordability of health care for all Americans!
http://www.petitiononline.com/cgi-bin/mlk?http://beyond-the-political-spectrum.blogspot.com/