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Will Obama Health Care Prevail?, Pt.3 – Shape up Medicare, etc.

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Medicaid eligibility is also likely to become the early object of health insurance/care reform. This move will be to include greater numbers of the uninsured, moving toward another cornerstone of Mr. O’s plan. This move is likely to show timely results that are so badly needed with health insurance/care right now. Americans are anxious to see and feel something moving in a situation where health insurance/care has been placed on hold due to the meltdown.

About the only good news concerning health insurance/care of any substance for the past year was the findings of the 2007 US Census report. That report recorded that the number of Americans having no health insurance had fallen from 47 million to 45.7 million in that year. It was the first and only time a decline was reported since that ascendancy of Bush to the White House.

Deregulation pundits were quick to claim credit and declare that the health insurance/care crisis was resolving itself so government intervention wouldn’t be necessary after all. However, the public was not fooled for long. The following day, reports were heralded nationwide that the number would actually have increased, were it not for a recent expansion of Medicaid and other government programs. So expansions of programs like Medicare are a good ticket item right now because they’re both, do-able and show timely results.

Perhaps, in the not-to-distant future we will see the formation of more significant health insurance/care initiatives. These will be things like health insurance/care subsidies for lower-income individuals and small businesses to enable health insurance in the first place. These subsidies would help defray the costs of purchasing health insurance.

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