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Focusing On the Big Picture, Pt.4 – Access is the most important choice.

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Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care plan takes a totally different approach. Taken from variations of the Massachusetts universal health insurance model, he plans to implement the major elements that have proven to be workable. Although Obama’s plan isn’t intended to achieve total universal health insurance coverage by every American, he is still committed to make that possible, should the American people want it. By that, he is pushing very hard to achieve the ability to accommodate every citizen who would desire health insurance.

To implement this monumental task, he is seeking to foster many different kinds of health insurance access choices. First of all, he plans to build on the few good components we currently have that are still working and can be fixed. Since lack of government regulation failed so badly in the housing market, he doesn’t believe it wise to make the same mistake in the health insurance market. As such, many of the ills that are destroying our current healthcare system will be taken under control.

Regulators will be much more involved to secure our employer-based, private-based and even our public-based health insurance structures. Employers will be expected to share some responsibility for providing health benefits for their workers. Private health providers will also be expected to share some responsibility, by covering those people who, today, are flat-out denied coverage. A new public entity will be created to cover those who can’t afford adequate coverage any other way.

This is not designed to be a heavy-handed approach in any way. Provisions are being made to help each health insurance entity benefit the country while benefiting themselves as well.

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