Dr. Shane Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Obama Health Plan To Cost $75 Billion President-elect Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system would cost the federal government $75 billion the first year but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers said on Wednesday. This works out to about $2,500 per newly insured person, the firm said in a report. "The plan would increase to $1 trillion cumulatively by 2018 or approximately $130 billion per year," the report said... Obama has proposed a national insurance "exchange" with what his website describes as a "range of private insurance options." "This national health insurance exchange could offer a new and different way to compete in the marketplace," Thompson said... Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, unveiled his own healthcare reform plan on Wednesday that resembles Obama's but would require all Americans to have health insurance. Unions and consumers groups quickly praised the proposals. [text from link] Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
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