Health Care Debate

The U.S. Congress is currently debating bills to make fundamental reforms in the health care system that costs the country some 2.5 trillion dollars a year - a challenge given that the proposed solutions seem to sometimes go to against each other.

In a speech before both houses of Congress met in joint session, Sept. 9, Obama urged deputies and senators to abandon the doubts and misinformation that plague the debate on such reform in recent months, and support the plans he has proposed for this purpose. Five committees of the Senate and House of Representatives have reviewed the draft comprehensive reform that had been submitted, four of them have already completed their work. The White House offered no specific bill but said Congress what were the goals of Obama in this regard.

The differences between the texts of bills that would reach each of its side, the Senate and House of Representatives, would likely be resolved at a joint conference of their committees before a final draft can be adopted and submitted to the president to be enacted. (news.yahoo.com)

More than a dozen bills were submitted to various committees, but all are focused on three overriding concerns: the millions of people without health insurance, skyrocketing costs associated with ongoing health sector, and the failures level of quality of care in the United States.

Each of these three points is much more complicated than it seems at first, according to the findings of a study published in late July by the Congressional Research Service of the United States (CRS). "The solutions to these concerns are likely to counteract," said Bob Lyke in its analysis of the situation which appears in the CRS report. (www.naturalnews.com)

According to statistics from the Census Bureau United States released 10 September, 46.3 million people in the United States ...