Overall+Healthcare+Plan

Obama wants to create a plan in which he increases the number of people who have health insurance. If this plan goes into full effect, this should cost about 50 to 65 billion dollars a year. He assumes that that this will be paid by the savings left from the Bush tax cuts for those making 250,000 dollars per year. Obama just recently signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act. This plan is to give quality health care to about 11 million kids. also Obama want to sign an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This plan will protect the citizens health, who have lost there jobs because of the bad economy. The Recovery act will: · invest 19 million to keep peoples medical records computerized · "$1 billion for prevention and wellness to improve America’s health and help to reduce health care costs" · "$1.1 billion for research to give doctors tools to make the best treatment decisions for their patients by providing objective information on the relative benefits of treatments" · "$500 million for health workforce to help train the next generation of doctors and nurses." "The administration believes the health care plan should:" · lessen "long-term growth" for the cost of health care for businesses and government · shield families from going bankrupt because of health care cost · guarantee your right to health care plan and your choice of doctors · <span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">"Maintain coverage when you change or lose your job" <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">"End barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions"