First of all, Obama is seen a good speaker. Before his speech, I thought that the applause loudly again and again can be seen only some countries. When I watched his speech, I saw the same loudly applause in USA. He said that he is not the first president to deal with this issue but he hopes to be the last president who solves the problem.
Obama’s speech based on 3 goals. One of them is more secure and stable insurance for people, the second one is insurance for people who don’t have it and the last one is reducing costs for people, small businesses and the government. He emphasized on the current health care problem which can not be sustained anymore. In fact, this situation is not only the health care problem but also the deficit or finance problem of government.
In his speech he insisted on some points like this plan will not change what people currently have. In other words, people who have insurance which is supported by their employer or government will not need to change their current situations. Another important thing is the insurance companies will not decrease the coverage of health servise when people get sick with out extra charge. This reform plan is also important for people who currently don’t have insurance. New reform plan offer these people affordable choices with the help of insurance exchange market. In this kind of market, insurance companies will compete eachother to give beter service with lower price.
Obama, in his speech, clarified somepoints which were raised by people who opposed to this reform. One of the opposition asserted is the dominance of government in health sector. He gave many examples on the private insurance companies’ role in the sector. He emphasized that the government will not take over the system but if insurance companies can not provide any affordable choises to people who don’t have insurance, the government will take role to provide these people a healthcare.
Relating to his speech, some questions can be asked. One of them is why government does not fund operation for abortion. The another one is how much money the new system will need and who pays that amount of money. The burden for government is really serious and someone or somegroups will have to pay this burden.
In briefly, it can be said that the time will show us whether this reform will work out or not…
Sources:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/OBAMASPEECH0909.html
www.cnn.com
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