Obama's Latest

Early last month President Obama gave a speech outlining some specifics of his administration's plan to reform America's health care plan, you can find the transcript and video of this speech covered by CNN here. As all presidential address this speech is quite wordy and dances around a lot of the controversial debates. Obama does this, I believe, with partially good intentions, rather than addressing all the issues people are fighting over he tries to get to the point of his plan. However without addressing things like how illegal immigrants will be kept from taking advantage of this plan is extremely important to the southwestern states. All that aside this speech claims that there are three focus points of this reformation. These three points, according to Obama, are to, "provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance for those who don't. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses and our government." We can all agree that keeping insurance companies from dropping people because they develop an expensive disease/disorder should be prevented and that the price of health care should be kept affordable without giving up our cutting edge research and care. The only question remains is how to we provide health care to 45 million more Americans without sacrificing the foremost quality and timeliness of care as discussed in my last post. The answer to this question is not shortcoming and may or may not have a definite solution.