Millions of Americans are uninsured; however the state of California has the largest number of people without insurance, and this number continues to grow. 6.6 million Californians are uninsured, and California has “a lower percentage of individuals with employer-sponsored coverage,” reports Paul Fronstin from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Employer-sponsored coverage decreased 9% between 1987 and 2008, and “although Medicaid and individually purchased coverage partially offset this decline, more than 20% of Californians remain uninsured,” states Fronstin.
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A record number of Americans have donated their time and money to support relief efforts in Haiti, revealing the intense compassion and generosity Americans have. If you turn on your television, it’s impossible to avoid seeing the devastating images of those suffering in Haiti, and the terrible conditions survivors are living in. And since these images are everywhere we turn, it has caused us to donate as much as we can, either online or through cell phones. And for a brief moment last week, these devastating images were interrupted to report Republican Scott Brown’s, a health care reform critic, victory in Massachusetts.
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Obama promised that a health care reform bill would expand access to health insurance and lower costs for people who already have health plans, and despite several set-backs, President Obama says he’s not giving up on health care reform. Fox News states that Obama said “he had “no illusions” about the difficulty of the health care fight when he took it on and vowed to work with members on both sides of the aisle to pass a bill.”
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Many political commentators have already proclaimed that health care reform is no more due to Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. However, it may be too soon to officially state the bill as being completely done. Douglas E. Schoen of NY Daily News states that, “What Massachusetts voters told us is that they have no appetite for partisan reform. In other words, lawmakers can still pass substantive legislation that improves America’s health care system so long as their effort is bipartisan.”
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Plastic Surgeons and dermatologists are letting out a huge sigh of relief since the tax on elective cosmetic surgery, also known as the “bo-tax,” has been dismissed. The new tax that is proposed in the health care bill will be on indoor tanning services.
NYTimes.com reported that the 10% tax on “fake” tanning services will go into effect in July 2010 which means any indoor tanning services provider must add that additional tax onto their services. By 2020 this new tax will have raised close to $3 billion, this money will go to help millions of Americans obtain health insurance.
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President Barack Obama’s health plan was created to help the average American by substantially lowering costs for families and not requiring adults to purchase insurance, and in return, only wealthy people’s taxes would increase. “But a year later, the health care proposals in Congress lack many of those easy-to-sell benefits, which became victims of the lengthy process of trying to win over wavering lawmakers, appeasing powerful special-interest groups and addressing concerns about the heavily burdened Treasury,” reports MSNBC.
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People all over the country are on the edge of their seat awaiting the US Senate to “agree upon a final draft of the bill, so that it can be put into effect,” states Top News. And while the nation awaits a final draft, Boston is all set up and ready for the health-care reform conference scheduled for later this week. There will be over a hundred health-care professionals meeting there to talk about how to efficiently extend health insurance coverage. The conference, titled “How to Organize Exchanges and Other Lessons Learned”, is expected to attract lawmakers, policy-makers and Government-agency officials from several states.
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It seems like health-care reform negotiations are never ending, and in order to solve the remaining issues, democratic leaders are still meeting with administration officials. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though, and House speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues “that they would have something they “can sink their teeth into” by early next week,” states Modern Healthcare.
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Recently, everyday in Washington the focus has been on health care reform, and national security, but now focus has shifted to the devastation in Haiti. “Lawmakers returned to Washington this month bracing for a battle to the finish over the health care overhaul that needs to pass through both chambers of Congress again in its final form before it heads to the president’s desk,” reports Fox News. However, now health care reform and national security aren’t at the top of the to-do list.
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Appropriate health care involves being able to see a doctor conveniently and frequently, and having doctors being able to attend to health issues before they get worse. However, Medi-Cal patients in California don’t get to visit primary care physicians easily and regularly, and are more likely to visit overcrowded emergency rooms and end up getting sicker. Expanding Medi-Cal is like “building a house on a sloping, cracked foundation,” states Anmol Singh Mahal from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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About a week ago, Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, expressed his dislike towards the health care bill because of how much the reform will cost the state of California. The National Center for Policy Analysis states that “he’s not alone,” and that many other states are not too fond of the health care bill either.
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