While Congress is heading out for their summer break (must be nice), the president was bearing the heat in North Carolina, attempting to convince American’s of his health care reform plan. The August deadline for passage of the plan is coming up quick, and will pass us by with no decisions. But that didn’t stop the president from continuing conveying his message.
“Nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve been as clear as I can be, under the reform I’ve proposed, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody.”
“We will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms, colonoscopies, or eye and foot exams for diabetics, so we can avoid chronic illnesses that cost not only lives, but money,” Mr. Obama said. “No longer will insurance companies be allowed to drop or water down coverage for someone who has become seriously ill. That’s not right and it’s not fair.”
Obama went on to explain how the new health care plan wouldn’t allow for discrimination based on previous health conditions, no exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, no cost-sharing for preventive care, no dropping of coverage for serious illness, no gender discrimination, no annual or lifetime caps, extended coverage for young adults, and guaranteed insurance renewal.
After spending time in Raleigh, the president flew to Bristol, VA to hold a much smaller gathering at a local Kroger plant. Here he’s explaining the health care reform’s affect on businesses, large and small.
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