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Will Obama Health Care Prevail?, Pt.1 – Against the odds…

Now that we’re poised with a largely popular health insurance/care plan and ready to go, will we go anywhere?  A few have already tried – and failed.  The failure of Bill Clinton’s health insurance/care plan was largely do to three factors:

1)                    Strong opposition by the multi-trillion dollar health insurance industry.

2)                    Lack of bi-partisan involvement.

3)                    Too much wonk delivered to the public.

The failure of Geo. W’s health insurance/care plan was also largely due to three factors:

1)                    Lack of favorable projections.

2)                    Lack of bi-partisan involvement.

3)                    Lack of confidence by the public.

So, here we are again.  With Mr. O’s health insurance/care plan we have:

1)                    Widespread majority support from the public. 

2)                    An extreme need for serious and timely results.

3)                    A nation realizing the strong need for bi-partisanship.

4)                    A multi-trillion dollar health insurance industry that’s a little wary of it all.

5)                    A much-stretched budget.

Even though the recent exit polls showed that only 9% of the voters listed health insurance/care as the primary concern, a much greater percentage is still very concerned over it.  The experts seem to all agree that we don’t have much choice.  We will have to do something substantial and very soon. 

Even though Mr. O’s plan already has much of the detail worked out, with so many ‘cooks in the kitchen’, many differing views will have to be considered.  As Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation says, "Obama's put out a framework for how he would tackle health care reform.  Now it's up to the policy wonks to take the elements of that framework and put them into a proposal that can get past the U.S. Congress.”  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit health policy organization based in Menlo Park, California.

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