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1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
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• 1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
President Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible:
• The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
• Promote public health:
Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters
• Obama will lower health care costs:
The services that he is offering will help the lower and middle class afford health care and not just make the insurance and drug companies rich, but be able to go to the hospital or have a primary physician care for them without wondering if the service they will receive will be good. The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet more than 45 million Americans have no health insurance. Too many hard-working Americans cannot afford their medical bills, and thus, health-related issues are the number one cause for personal bankruptcy. Too many employers are finding it difficult to offer the coverage their employees need..
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Barack Obama has pledged to sign universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in office that will assure that Americans with disabilities will have quality, affordable, portable coverage that will allow them to take a job without fear of losing coverage. People with disabilities who lose their Medicare or Medicaid eligibility by taking a job, but still cannot afford coverage, will be provided a subsidy in order to purchase coverage. Moreover, under the Obama-Biden plan, insurers will not be able to deny coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens. when Barack Obama was still a Senator he voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs. Some 42 million American seniors are served by Medicare, including 1.7 million in Illinois. Medicare is a promise we have made to our seniors, and along with Social Security, it is essential to a dignified and financially sound retirement. Cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives, paid into the system, and need medical care. Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, President Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Euthanasia is from the Greek word euthanatos meaning easy inducement of a painless death—death without suffering. President Obama discussed abortion as not being a form of euthanasia but as allowing the young girl or women a way of not having more of a burden placed on them. He voted against some bills and made some statement about how he felt about the state trying to enforce laws were they tell people how their lives should be. “I am in favor of palliative medicine in circumstances where someone is terminally ill,” he said. “… I'm mindful of the legitimate interests of states to prevent a slide from palliative treatments into euthanasia.” Obama said society has to be "very careful in making end-of-life decisions" and he promoted patients having a living will to register their treatment choices.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few
• Obama will lower health care costs: The Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Make Health Insurance Work for People and Businesses - Not Just Insurance and Drug Companies.
• Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
• Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
• Lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
• Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
• Make employer contributions more fair by requiring large employers that do not offer coverage or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of their employees health care.
• Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
• Ensure everyone who needs it will receive a tax credit for their premiums.
Reduce Costs and Save a Typical American Family up to $2,500 as reforms phase in:
• Lower drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market
• Require hospitals to collect and report health care cost and quality data
• Reduce the costs of catastrophic illnesses for employers and their employees.
• Reform the insurance market to increase competition by taking on anticompetitive activity that drives up prices without improving quality of care.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of President Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world. While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, President Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, President Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention. In Illinois, an estimated 40,000 - 42,000 individuals are living with HIV/AIDS. The Ryan White Care Act (RWCA) provides the majority of Federal support for those suffering from HIV/AIDS in our country . President Obama worked closely with RWCA service providers, the Chicago Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Department of Public Health to analyze and find ways to improve the program for Illinois and for the nation. President Obama will continue to protect the multifaceted care upon which RWCA beneficiaries depend. In order to expedite the availability of preventive tools for women, President Obama is the lead Democratic sponsor of the Microbicide Development Act, which encourages scientific leadership on this issue and strengthens research and development programs at the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
President elect Obama has committed to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to seek the care that they need
2 He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish Medicare and Medicaid funding.
3.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Obama will allow the government to negoiate for lower drug prices Also, supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to $60 billion to assist in fighting the epidemic
Barack Obama's plan strengthens employer–based coverage, makes insurance companies
accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference. Under the plan, if
you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500
per year. If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance
options.
What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Barack
Obama believe we need to eliminate the excessive subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
and pay them the same amount it would cost to treat the same patients under regular Medicare
What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia. obama supports palliative medicine but not in favor of euthanasia
What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Allow consumers to import safe drugs from other countries
Prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs from consumers
Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices
What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's
HIV/AIDS IN AMERICA
Develop a National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency, he will
develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies.
The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care, and reduce HIV-related health
disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines, and accountability mechanisms.
1. Senator Obama has previously pledged to sign a bill assuring universal health insurance coverage for all Americans. His preferred approach is an interesting mix of public and private offerings. Senator Obama’s plan would enable all Americans to buy into a government run purchasing pool offering coverage similar to that provided to federal employees. Senator Obama calls for subsidies to help low and middle income families afford this coverage, although his speech didn’t provide details as to the amount of the subsidy or who would qualify.
Coverage through the pool would be provided on an individual basis, meaning it would remain in force even if the insured changed jobs. To pay for the subsidies, Senator Obama would let President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire. He’d also levy a tax on “all but the smallest employers” who fail to provide eligible coverage to their workers.
Interestingly, unlike former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Senator Obama does not seem to require individuals to purchase coverage. If his voluntary approach doesn’t succeed, he’s prepared to revisit the plan until 100 percent of the population is insured.
Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
2. Senator Obama is concerned about the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and its effect on our nation's elderly and disabled. In particular, he is concerned about the difficulty encountered when enrolling and choosing among a large number of plans (more than 40 in Illinois); the restrictions on changing plan selection after enrollment; the prohibition against negotiating for the best drug price or discounts, and the high costs of the program for senior
Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, Senator Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3. Despite their immense adoration and support for the Democratic presidential candidate, German politicians and the media were quick to attack Obama for his comments in favor of extending the death penalty for child rapists.
"The death penalty is the ultimate violation of human rights and the right to life," Green party leader Claudia Roth told the Bild newspaper. Obama should be working for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, not for expanding it. He is for abortion, he feels that a women should be able to do what she feel with her body. Bu the is against euthanasia.
4. Look at needle exchange; and expand treatment.
Fight to rid our communities of meth.
Expand drug courts; help prisoners with substance abuse.
2001: questions harsh penalties for drug dealing.
Not first candidate to use drugs, but first honest about it.
Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18.
Experimented with cocaine but turned down heroin.
A "secret smoker", especially around reporters.
Smokes cigarettes now; smoked some pot in high school.
Admitted marijuana use in high school & college.
Deal with street-level drug dealing as minimum-wage affair.
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs.
Require chemical resellers to certify against meth use.
5. Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of Senator Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world.
While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, Senator Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
Question #1
What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve health care for all people.
1. President Obama then a Senator at the time. Senator Obama has previously pledged to sign a bill assuring universal health insurance coverage for all Americans. His preferred approach is an interesting mix of public and private offerings. Senator Obama’s plan would enable all Americans to buy into a government run purchasing pool offering coverage similar to that provided to federal employees. Senator Obama calls for subsidies to help low and middle income families afford this coverage, although his speech didn’t provide details as to the amount of the subsidy or who would qualify.
Coverage through the pool would be provided on an individual basis, meaning it would remain in force even if the insured changed jobs. To pay for the subsidies, Senator Obama would let President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire. He’d also levy a tax on “all but the smallest employers” who fail to provide eligible coverage to their workers".
Interestingly, unlike former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Senator Obama does not seem to require individuals to purchase coverage. If his voluntary approach doesn’t succeed, he’s prepared to revisit the plan until 100 percent of the population is insured.
Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
Question #2
What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
2. Senator Obama is concerned about the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and its effect on our nation's elderly and disabled. In particular, he is concerned about the difficulty encountered when enrolling and choosing among a large number of plans (more than 40 in Illinois); the restrictions on changing plan selection after enrollment; the prohibition against negotiating for the best drug price or discounts, and the high costs of the program for senior
Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, Senator Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
Question #3
What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
3.Senator Obama's Roe V. Wade it is none of the federal government's business to allow doctors to intentionally starve a person to death," "Nor is it the law's business to require doctors to attend to the health care of a fully born baby who has survived an abortion. Senator Obama has has a long-standing pro abortion position and on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 that his stance that helping save Terri Schiavo from a euthanasia death was the wrong thing for Congress to do. He regrets voting for the bill that allowed to save her life to federal court. Despite their immense adoration and support for the Democratic presidential candidate, German politicians and the media were quick to attack Obama for his comments in favor of extending the death penalty for child rapists.
"The death penalty is the ultimate violation of human rights and the right to life," Green party leader Claudia Roth told the Bild newspaper. Obama should be working for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, not for expanding it. He is for abortion, he feels that a women should be able to do what she feel with her body. Bu the is against euthanasia.
Question #4
What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
4. Look at needle exchange; and expand treatment.
Fight to rid our communities of meth.
Expand drug courts; help prisoners with substance abuse.
2001: questions harsh penalties for drug dealing.
Not first candidate to use drugs, but first honest about it.
Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18.
Experimented with cocaine but turned down heroin.
A "secret smoker", especially around reporters.
Smokes cigarettes now; smoked some pot in high school.
Admitted marijuana use in high school & college.
Deal with street-level drug dealing as minimum-wage affair.
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs.
Require chemical resellers to certify against meth use.
Question #5
What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AIDS?
5. Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of Senator Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world.
While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, Senator Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
1. Senator Obama has previously pledged to sign a bill assuring universal health insurance coverage for all Americans. His preferred approach is an interesting mix of public and private offerings. Senator Obama’s plan would enable all Americans to buy into a government run purchasing pool offering coverage similar to that provided to federal employees. Senator Obama calls for subsidies to help low and middle income families afford this coverage, although his speech didn’t provide details as to the amount of the subsidy or who would qualify.
Coverage through the pool would be provided on an individual basis, meaning it would remain in force even if the insured changed jobs. To pay for the subsidies, Senator Obama would let President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire. He’d also levy a tax on “all but the smallest employers” who fail to provide eligible coverage to their workers.
Interestingly, unlike former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Senator Obama does not seem to require individuals to purchase coverage. If his voluntary approach doesn’t succeed, he’s prepared to revisit the plan until 100 percent of the population is insured.
Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
2. Senator Obama is concerned about the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and its effect on our nation's elderly and disabled. In particular, he is concerned about the difficulty encountered when enrolling and choosing among a large number of plans (more than 40 in Illinois); the restrictions on changing plan selection after enrollment; the prohibition against negotiating for the best drug price or discounts, and the high costs of the program for senior
Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, Senator Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3. Despite their immense adoration and support for the Democratic presidential candidate, German politicians and the media were quick to attack Obama for his comments in favor of extending the death penalty for child rapists.
"The death penalty is the ultimate violation of human rights and the right to life," Green party leader Claudia Roth told the Bild newspaper. Obama should be working for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, not for expanding it. He is for abortion, he feels that a women should be able to do what she feel with her body. Bu the is against euthanasia.
4. Look at needle exchange; and expand treatment.
Fight to rid our communities of meth.
Expand drug courts; help prisoners with substance abuse.
2001: questions harsh penalties for drug dealing.
Not first candidate to use drugs, but first honest about it.
Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18.
Experimented with cocaine but turned down heroin.
A "secret smoker", especially around reporters.
Smokes cigarettes now; smoked some pot in high school.
Admitted marijuana use in high school & college.
Deal with street-level drug dealing as minimum-wage affair.
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs.
Require chemical resellers to certify against meth use.
5. Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of Senator Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world.
While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, Senator Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
• Guaranteed eligibility. No American will be turned away from any insurance plan
because of illness or pre-existing conditions.
• Comprehensive benefits. The benefit package will be similar to that offered through
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), the plan members of Congress
have. The plan will cover all essential medical services, including preventive, maternity
and mental health care. National Health Insurance Exchange: The Obama plan will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase a private insurance plan. The Exchange will act as a watchdog group and help reform the private insurance market by creating rules and standards for participating insurance plans to ensure fairness and to make individual coverage more affordable and accessible. Insurers would have to issue every applicant a policy, and charge fair and stable premiums that will not depend upon health status. The Exchange will require that all the plans offered are at least as generous as the new public plan and have the same standards for quality and efficiency. The Exchange would evaluate plans and make the differences among the plans, including cost of services, public. Etc…..
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
President Barack Obama is planning on providing health care for all Americans including the self employed and small businesses, and make it affordable by finding healthcare providers that are willing to provide care that is the same as what is offered to congress, and help with his plan for the future. In order to help lower the cost of services he :
• Affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles.
• Subsidies. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still
need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the
new public plan or purchase a private health care plan.
• Simplified paperwork and reined in health costs.
• Easy enrollment. The new public plan will be simple to enroll in and provide ready
access to coverage.
• Portability and choice. Participants in the new public plan and the National Health
Insurance Exchange (see below) will be able to move from job to job without
changing or jeopardizing their health care coverage.
• Quality and efficiency. Participating insurance companies in the new public program
will be required to report data to ensure that standards for quality, health information
technology and administration are being met.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
President Obama is in favor of abortions because he feels that a women should have control over her body and whether or not she wants certain percedures done and for what ever the reason may be.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue? A lot of issues have arose do to not being able to acquire health insurance because of the premium, if they need to see a physician or God forbid if they have to be admitted to the hospital. They would loose so much money they could not pay their bills and keep up with payments on the hospital bills too.
Lowering Costs Through Investment in Electronic Health Information Technology
Systems: Most medical records are still stored on paper, which makes it hard to coordinate
care, measure quality or reduce medical errors and which costs twice as much as electronic
claims. Obama will invest $10 billion a year over the next five years to move the U.S. health care
system to broad adoption of standards-based electronic health information systems, including
electronic health records, and will phase in requirements for full implementation of health IT.
Obama will ensure that patients' privacy is protected.
Lowering Costs by Increasing Competition in the Insurance and Drug Markets:
• Barack Obama will prevent companies from abusing their monopoly power through
unjustified price increases. His plan will force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of
their premiums for patient care instead of keeping exorbitant amounts for profits and
administration. His new National Health Exchange will help increase competition by
insurers.
• Lower prescription drug costs. The second-fastest growing type of health expense is
prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are selling the exact same drugs in
Europe and Canada but charging Americans more than double the price. Obama will
allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are
safe and prices are lower outside the U.S. He will repeal the ban that prevents the
government from negotiating with drug companies, with savings as high as $30 billion.
Finally, Obama will work to increase the use of generic drugs in Medicare, Medicaid, and
FEHBP and prohibit big name drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
President Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
1. President Obama plans to lower healthcare cost by $2500.00 for a typical family and investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination. Everyone will have basic coverage, he'll end the outrage of 1 out 5 blacks going without the healthcare they deserve, make it affordable and ensure the quality of our health care does not depent on the color of our skin.
2. According to Obama, cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives, paid into the system, and need medical care. Obama wants to strengthen Medicaid, as well help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3.President Obama believes in everybody having a living will so that their views on these issues can be factored in by family members. He doesen't think that it's appropriate to empower doctors themselves to make that decision. He believes it's important for us to be able to allow people who are terminally ill, in excrutiating pain, to get the medications they need to relieve that pain. He believes there has to be very strict guidelines to ensure that somebody who is making a decision to relieve their pain (is acting appropriately). That is distinguished from euthanasia in which someone else is making the decision for them.
4.Obama will allow the federal governemnt to negotiate for lower drug prices for the medicare program, just as it does to lower prices for our veterans. He also supports allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas and will prevent pharmaceutical companies from blocking cheap and safe generic drugs from the market.
5.Obama wants to make more antiviral drugs available to people in extreme poverty, he also believes the U.S. must give it's fair share to the Global Fund to Fight Aids.
1.Well,Barack is purposing a level of health care reform.He has proposed sweeping changes in the health care system,and it is designed to allow health coverage to millions of uninsured Ameriacans. Barack made healthcare the centerpiece of his campaign. He wants to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone. He also,ralated to a more personal aspect with his mother with (ovarian cancer). She could not afford to pay her medical bills. His plan would extend coverage for everyone. Barack will lower the average family health insurance premiums about $2,250 per year.
2.Barack stance on medicare is that he is concerned about the medicare part d prescription drug program. Actually,he feels it is just to many elderly seniors that can't afford there medicine even though they are on social security. Barack oppose the large number of plans to choose from (over 40 in Illinois).There are restrictions on changing after enrollment;the prohibition against negotiating for the best price or discount. Barack is also co-sponsor of the MEDICARE INFORMED CHOICE ACT.
Medicaid
Obama understands that all need a good health coverage plan and he will continue the fight to strengthen medicaid. He will also work with providers who care for a large number of uninsured patients.
3.Barack stance on Euthanasia,he stated that his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous senate to help save a lady from florida (Terri Schiavo). her husband won legal rights to starve her to death.Obama fells he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation. He is not comfortable with it, he realized he should have stopped it. He states "He should have known better".
4.The U.S is the largest market for Pharmaceuticals in the world. Barack feels our seniors pay the highest prices. The medicare part d was supposed to address this problem but instead created a problem.
*it limits benefits for seniors more than $2,250 in annual costs. Obama was not in congress when they passed the part d program . "he states he would have opposed it" . Barack have stated that he support seniors to purchase prescription drugs in Canada and bring them back; he supports giving medicare the right to negotiate lower drug prices.
5.Obama stance on HIV/AIDS is to work publicly to prevent the disease; also, to help develop a treatment for the disease. While traveling in Africa Obama and his wife took HIV/AIDS test publicly. Obama calls for an increase for more money to fund research and development and Presidents Emergency Plan for Aids Relief(PEPFAR). He want to expand the knowledge to other countries like Asia, Middle East, and enhance the work thats being done in Africa. Increase nutritional and prevention methods to control and prevent the disease. IN Illinois it is estimated that 40,000-42,000 people living with HIV/AIDS.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to all:
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs:
The Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Promote public health:
Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options.
Make Health Insurance Work for People and Businesses - Not Just Insurance and Drug Companies.
Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
Lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
Make employer contributions more fair by requiring large employers that do not offer coverage or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of their employees health care.
Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
Ensure everyone who needs it will receive a tax credit for their premiums.
Reduce Costs and Save a Typical American Family up to $2,500 as reforms phase in:
Lower drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market
Require hospitals to collect and report health care cost and quality data .
Reduce the costs of catastrophic illnesses for employers and their employees.
Reform the insurance market to increase competition by taking on anticompetitive activity that drives up prices without improving quality of care.
The Obama-Biden plan will promote public health. It will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
A Commitment to Fiscal Responsibility: Barack Obama will pay for his $50 - $65 billion health care reform effort by rolling back the Bush tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year and retaining the estate tax at its 2009 level.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Barack Obama is also committed to ensuring that disabled Americans receive Medicaid and Medicare benefits in a low-cost, effective and timely manner. Barack Obama has pledged to sign universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in office that will assure that Americans with disabilities will have quality, affordable, portable coverage that will allow them to take a job without fear of losing coverage. People with disabilities who lose their Medicare or Medicaid eligibility by taking a job, but still cannot afford coverage, will be provided a subsidy in order to purchase coverage. Recognizing that many individuals with disabilities rely on Medicare, Obama worked with Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) to urge the department of health and human services to provide clear and reliable information on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and to ensure that the Medicare recipients were protected from fraudulent claims by marketers and drug plan agents.
3.What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Euthanasia. Barack Obama stated that he regretted his vote to allow the family of Terri Schiavo to take their case to the federal courts to prevent her imminent death. He also stated that he thinks the state Oregon "did a service for the country" by passing a pro-assisted suicide referendum. Mr. Obama's position directly opposes the Catholic teaching that euthanasia or "mercy-killing" is wrong in all cases.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Lowering prescription drug costs. The second-fastest growing type of health expenses is a prescription drug. Pharmaceutical companies are selling the exact same drugs in Europe and Canada but charging Americans more than double the price. Obama will allow Americans to buy cheaper medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe. Obama will also repeal the ban that prevents the government from negotiating with drug companies for the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which could result in savings as high as $30 billion. Finally, Obama will work to increase the use of generic drugs in federal benefits programs and prohibit drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
President Barack Obama wants to Fight AIDS Worldwide. There are 40 million people across the planet infected with HIV/AIDS. President Barack Obama Develop a National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies.
The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care, and reduce and fight HIV-related health disparities in Minority communities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines, and accountability mechanisms. He plans to bring Medicaid coverage to low-income HIV Positive Americans. As president, Obama will continue to be a global leader in the fight against AIDS. Obama believes in working across party lines to combat this epidemic and recently joined Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) at a large California evangelical church to promote greater investment in the global AIDS battle.
1.Obama will maintain current health care coverage to those who are okay with but they will have access to new affordable options. He will see that the quality of their health care improve and cost go down. Provide new tax credits to families who can't afford health care.
2. Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices, leave Medicare intact for the elderly and disabled, stop increases to Medicare Part B. Opposes cutting funding for Medicaid.
3. Obama's stated he made a mistake when it came to voting to extend the life of Terri Schiavo in not allowing her to be euthanized. He felt the government should not have gotten involved. He is pro-choice.
4. US consumers are being charged 67% more for drugs sold in other countries like Europe and Canada. Obama's plan is to allow Americans to buy their medicines from other countries if the drugs are safe and prcies are lower outside the country.
5. Help provide medical coverage to low income HIV Americans. Strong supporter of Ryan White Act which provides critical access to life saving treatment and care for over half a million low income Americans with HIV/AIDS. Promotes AIDS prevention. Will assure adequate and safe housing for those living with disease, expand research, expand access to testing for pregnant women, provide universal access for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, provide at least $50 billion by 2013 in order to at least double the number of people treated.
1. Healthcare changes President barack Obama is purposing to make for America and how this will improve healthcare for all people: Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to al: The Obama-Biden plan provide affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs: the Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Obama will promote public health: Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase sate and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
2.President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid:Obama follows the Democratic health care template by building on existing private and public programs such as employer health insurance, private individual health insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Establishing a new public programe that would look a lot like Medicare for those under age-65 that would be available to those who do not have access to an employer plan or qualify for existing government programs like Medicaid or SCHIP. This would also be open to small employers who do not offer a private plan.
. Creating a "National Health Insurance Exchange". this would be a government-run marketing organization that would sell inurance plans directly to those who did not have an emplyer plan or public coverage.
. An employer "pay or play" provision that would require an employer to either provide health insurance or contribute toward the cost of a public plan.
. Mandating that families cover all children through either a private or public health insurance plan.
. Expanding eligibility for government programs, like Medicaid and SCHIP.
. Allow flexibility in embracing state health reform initiatives.
Obama would provide premium subsideies to individuals and families who are not eligible for employer-based care or a government program.
. Obama would also mandate guaranteed insurability, a generous minimum comprehensive benefits package such as that required for federal workers, the ability to take their policy from one job to another (portability) when it is purchased through the new medicare-like public plan or the National Health Insurance Exchange, and he would require providers to participate in a new plan to collect and report data about standards of care, the use of health information technology, and administration.
3. President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia: Obama did not support euthanasia. In his own words "It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped","And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better," he added.
4. President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue:
. Allow consumers to import safe drugs from other countries. the second-fastest growing type of health expenses is prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical companies should profit when their research and development results in a groudbreaking new drug. But some companies are exploiting americans by dramatically overcharging U.S consumers. these companies are selling the exact same drugs in Europe and Canada but charging Americans a 67% premium. Barack Obama and Biden will allow Americans to buy their meicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S.
. Prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs from consumers: the Obama-Biden plan will work to ensure that market power does not lead to higher prices for consumers. Their plan will work to increase use of generic drugs in the new public plan. Medicare, Medicaid, FEHBP and prohibit large drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
. Allow Medicare to negotitate for cheaper drug prices: barack-Biden will repeal the ban on direct negotiation with drug companies and use the resulting savings, which could be as high as $30 billion, to further invest in improving health care coverage and quality.
5. President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of Aid's: Barack Obama and Jo Biden believe that we must do more to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. In 2006, Barack traveled to Kenya and, along with his wife Michelle, took an HIV/AIDS test to encourage African men and women to be tested for the disese. Barack and Biden believe in working across party lines to combat this epidemic. Barack Obama has worked in both the Illinpis and U.S. Senate to increase awareness and to promote greater investment for HIV/AIDS in America and abroad. As president, he will continue to be a global leader in the fight against AIDS.
. Implement a National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Barack has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies.The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines and accoutability mechanism. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcement promoting HIV/AIDS screening. as president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease.
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1. What kind of health care change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
It is stated in www.barack Obama.com/issues/healthcare/ that the plan is hopes to implement will provide affordable, accessible healthcare for all Americans, build on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
Under the plan, I you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except lower cost. The plan will also require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
According to American Thinker.com,”The US healthcare system ranks last or next to last on the five dimensions of a high performance health system. Quality, access, efficiency, equity and healthy lives.”
Obama 101: Healthcare. By Deborah White, About.com. (http://usliberals.about.com/healthcare/a/obamahlthcare.htm) At a glance the Obama plan will have the following features. (Naming the ones that were not mentioned above.)
Comprehensive benefits, subsides, easy enrollment, portability and choice, comprehensive benefits, contribution, mandatory coverage of children.
2. What is President Barack Obama stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
In Obama.senate.gov/issues/health-care/, it states that cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives, paid into the system and need medical care. As Senator, Obama is concern about the Medicare part D prescription drug program and its effect on out nation’s elderly and disabled
In the www.barackobama.com Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Believe we need to eliminate the excessive subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans and pay them the same amount it would cost to treat the same patients under the regular Medicare.
Barack Obama track record is as follow: He voted against cutting Medicare funding. He opposed steep increase in seniors Medicare premiums. He also voted to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for citizens
3. What is President Barack Obama stance on euthanasia?
www on the issue.org/2008 Barack.obama.abortionhtm. President Obama believes: Ok for state to restrict late-term partial birth abortion, we can find a common ground between pro-choice and pro-life. Teach teens about abstinence and also about contraception. Expand access to contraception, reduce unintended pregnancy. Barack Obama believes we owe it to the American public to explore the potential of stem cells to treat the millions of people suffering from debilitating and life threatening diseases. Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion. Pass the stem cell research bill and protect a woman’s right to choose.
4. What is President Barack Obama stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
As written in the Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan to lower health care costs,(www.Barackobama.com) The plan express concerns about lowering the cost by taking on anticompetitive actions in the drug and insurance companies. It also will allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the US. The president and vice-president plan will work to ensure that market power does not lead to higher prices for consumers. Their plan will work to increase use of generic drugs in the new public plan. And prohibit large drug companies from keeping generics out of the market.
5. What is President Barack Obama stance on treatment of AIDS?
The http://obama.senate.gov/issues/health.-care/ reports promoting the prevention of HIV? AIDS domestically and abroad as well as accelerating the research and development of treatment for the disease. Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least 1 billion dollars per year for the president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief.
He will also continue to protect the multifaceted care upon which RWCA beneficiaries depend.
1. Gauranteed eligibility. No American will be turned away from any insurance plan because of illness or pre-existing conditions.
Comprehensive benefits. The benefit package will be similar to that offered through Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), the plan members of Congress have. The plan will cover all essential medical services, including preventive, maternity and mental health care.
Affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles.
Subsidies. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the new public plan or purchase a private health care plan.
Simplified paperwork and reined in health costs.
Easy enrollment. The new public plan will be simple to enroll in and provide ready access to coverage.
Portability and choice. Participants in the new public plan and the National Health Insurance Exchange (see below) will be able to move from job to job without changing or jeopardizing their health care coverage.
Quality and efficiency. Participating insurance companies in the new public program will be required to report data to ensure that standards for quality, health information technology and administration are being met.
2. Preserving and Improving Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens. Senator Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs.
Medicare
Some 42 million American seniors are served by Medicare, including 1.7 million in Illinois. Medicare is a promise we have made to our seniors, and along with Social Security, it is essential to a dignified and financially sound retirement. Cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives, paid into the system, and need medical care.
3. Barack Obama regrets his vote to allow the family of Terri Schiavo to take their case to the federal courts to prevent her death. He feels that the state Oregon "did a service for the country" by passing a pro-assisted suicide referendum. Barack Obama directly opposes the Catholic teaching that euthanasia or "mercy-killing" is wrong in all cases.
4. Obama has proposed several steps to help lower the cost of prescription drugs and to improve access to generic drugs that cost less. Those steps include:
Lifting the ban that currently prevents the federal government from negotiating with drug companies to get lower prices on drugs for the Medicare program, just as it does to lower drug prices for veterans. Annual savings from this measure alone could be as high as $30 billion.
Allowing seniors and other Americans to buy safe prescription drugs from other developed countries where prices are lower.
Increasing the use of generic drugs in Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, and preventing pharmaceutical companies from blocking safe, low-cost generic drugs from entering the market.
Closing the so-called “doughnut hole” in Medicare Part D prescription drug program. The doughnut hole is the gap in coverage that happens when an individual reaches an initial spending limit and must pay for all drug costs until a second, higher amount is reached. The doughnut hole costs many individual seniors thousands of dollars every year.
Making Medicare coverage easier to understand by requiring insurance companies to send Medicare beneficiaries a full list of the drugs they use and the fees they pay every year. The idea is to help seniors determine which Medicare prescription drug plans so they can choose a plan that will reduce their expenses while helping them maintain or improve their health.
5. Barack Obama's view is that we should use whatever the best approaches are, the scientifically sound approaches are, to reduce this devastating disease. Part of that should be a strong education component and I think abstinence education is important. He also thinks that contraception is important and treatment is important. He feels that more should be done to make antiviral drugs available to people who are in extreme poverty.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
The plan is to make healthcare insurance affordable for everyone. It ensures insurance companies will cut cost as low as $2,500 per year. To those who don't have healthcare insurance Obama/Biden welcomes you to this new affordable plan.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will require that companies follow suite and participate in the new public plan, Medicare or the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) utilize proven disease management programs. This will improve quality of care and lower costs.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
President Barack Obama stated that this is a complicated topic. But Obama and Hillary Clinton backed abortion rights. They also stress their religious practice as being Christian. He stated earily in the campaign that he did'nt know whether life began at conception.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Pres. Barack Obama's plan understands that pharmaceutical companies should get paid for the development of new drugs but, the extreme cost of drugs should be reduce. The plan also will allow medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug plans and the america people will have an opportunity to purchase safe drugs from other countries.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's? Pres.Obama's plan is to reduce HIV infection by promoting HIV/AIDS screening. He will increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparies. The plan will make sure that people living with HIV will have access to lifesaving treatment and care. HIV patients will have adequate and safe housing provided for them. Obama believes that there should be a need to focus on preventing new infections and it will start in his presidency.
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The President has an insight into the health care issues of all people therefore, he has proposed a plan alongside healthy people 2010 to strenghten health care for all people. His health care change wil bring quality, affordable and portable health coverage for all people.
President Obama is committed to ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage by the end of his first term in office. He has been a lifelong advocate for health care and his plans will reduce health care costs for families. He plans to build on existing healthcare system, therefore will use existing providers,to implement his plan.Barack Obama believes he must redesign the change in health care system to reduce inefficiency and waste and rather improve health care quality. He believes that, his plan which will drive down costs for families and individuals.
THE PRESIDENTS STAND ON MEDI-CARE MEDIC-AID IS THAT HE WILL ENSURE THAT:
1)Providers deliver quality care
2)He will Align incentives for excellence on medicare and medicaid
3)He will tackle disparities within the health care system
He will reform medical malpractice while preserving patient rights.
He will lower cost by taking on anticompetive actions in the drug and insurance companies.
He will Increasing competition in the insurance industry.
The presidents stance on prescribtion drugs and their cost to the American people is to
Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices. In 2003 Medicare Prescription
Improvement and Modernization Act banned the government from negotiating down the prices of
prescription drugs,president Obama
will repeal the ban on direct negotiation with drug companies and use the resulting savings, to improve health care coverage and quality.
Euthanasia has always been a moral and ethical issue in our society and it has been part of the struggle between the church and the state. However the president elected saids there should be a better way whereby we all can have a better understanding of how to handle such situations when it occurs.
The paresidents stance on the treatment of HIV/AIDS includes
a promise to provide universal health care
create a national AIDS strategy
support for Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA) which would provide Medicaid coverage to low-income people living with HIV.
Full funding of the Ryan White CARE Act and Housing for People with AIDS (HOPWA)
expanding access to generic HIV/AIDS drugs in poor countries
supporting "age appropriate" sexual education
reauthorizing and revising PEPFAR to allow science-based prevention
putting $50 billion towards the Millenium Development Goals
allow countries access to more low-cost generic medications and
keep reading the Update for presidential AIDS plans as they are announced.
HIV/AIDS patients are part of society and therefore must be given special attention .It has therefore been the concern of the president elect Barack Obama to give his undivided attention to give federal funding for numerous research into the cure for HIV/AIDS. He believes that fighting HIV/AIDS epidemic could prevent a global pandemic.
I-BARACK OBAMA's PLAN TO LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS AND ENSURE AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL.Barack Obama's plan strengthens employer–based coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference. Under the plan, if
you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year. If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance option.
Lower cost to make our health care system works for people and businesses – not just for insurance companies.
Barack Obama believes we must redesign our health system to reduce inefficiency and waste and
improve health care quality, which will drive down costs for families and individuals. The Obama's plan
will improve efficiency and lower costs in the health care system by: (1) adopting state-of-the-art health
information technology systems; (2) ensuring that patients receive and providers deliver the best possible care,
including prevention and chronic disease management services; (3) reforming our market structure to increase
competition; and offering federal reinsurance to employers to help ensure that unexpected or catastrophic
illnesses do not make health insurance unaffordable or out of reach for businesses and their employees.
-(1) Invest in electronic health information technology systems.
-(2) Improve access to prevention and proven disease management programs.
-Help patients
Support disease management programs
-Coordinate and integrate care.
-Require full transparency regarding quality and costs.
-ENSURE PROVIDERS DELIVER QUALITY CARE
- Promote patient safety
-Align incentives for excellence.
-Comparative effectiveness reviews and research.
-Tackle disparities in health care
--Reform medical malpractice while preserving patient rights. Increasing medical malpractice
insurance rates are making it harder for doctors to practice medicine and raising the costs of health care for everyone. Barack Obama will strengthen antitrust laws to prevent insurers
from overcharging physicians for their malpractice insurance. Barack Obama will also
promote new models for addressing physician errors that improve patient safety, strengthen the doctor patient relationship, and reduce the need for malpractice suits.
Under the Obama's plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
II- Barack Obama will protect and Strengthen Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama is committed to the long-term strength of the Medicare program. He will reduce waste in the Medicare system, including eliminating subsidies to the private insurance Medicare Advantage program, and tackle fundamental health care reform to improve the quality and efficiency of our healthcare system.He support closing the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
.Provide Transparency to Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: Many seniors are enrolled in Medicare prescription drug plans that are actually more expensive for them than other available plans. Obama will require companies to send Medicare beneficiaries a full list of the drugs and fees they paid the previous year to help seniors determine which plans can better reduce their out-of-pocket costs and improve their health.
III- President Obama Does not support euthanasia. However, he believes that abortion is not a form of euthanasia but allowing the young girl or women to make a choice with their family and physicians. He said he was in favor of palliative medicine in circumstances where someone is terminally ill. He does not support euthanasia. Because he was mindful of the legitimate interests of states to prevent a slide from palliative treatments into euthanasia.
IV- Provide Cheaper Prescription Drugs: Our seniors pay the highest prices in the world for brand-name drugs. To lower drug costs, Obama will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program, just as it does to lower prices for our veterans.He also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas, and will prevent pharmaceutical companies from blocking cheap and safe generic drugs from the market.
He was criticized for making that plan. Some drug and insurance companies suggested that it is not safe.
V- Barack Obama believes that we must do more to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. In 2006, Barack Obama traveled to Kenya and,
along with his wife Michelle, took an HIV/AIDS test to encourage African men and women to be tested for the disease. Barack Obama believes in working across party lines to combat this epidemic. Barack Obama has worked in both the Illinois and U.S. Senate to increase awareness and to promote greater investment for HIV/AIDS in America and abroad. As president, he will continue to be a global leader in the fight against
AIDS.
Barack Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his
presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce
HIV-related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, time-lines and accountability mechanisms. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcements promoting HIV/AIDS screening. As president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease.
Obama's plan will ensure that people living with HIV have access to lifesaving treatment and care.
Bring Medicaid Coverage to Low-Income, HIV-Positive Americans: Obama is a cosponsor of the Early Treatment for HIV Act, which would help provide Medicaid coverage to more low-income, HIV-positive
Americans. The bill would also increase the number of people who receive the medications necessary to treat HIV infections. Fight Disparities in Minority Communities: HIV/AIDS has hit some communities harder than others. For
example, while African Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they make up 49 percent of new HIV/AIDS cases. Barack Obama is committed to targeting resources to promote innovative HIV/AIDS testing initiatives in minority communities and partnering with a wide-range of community leaders from churches to community organizations. But we must also tackle the scourge of poverty where HIV and AIDS proliferate. Barack Obama will continue to fight poverty and homelessness, key drivers of this epidemic. We need to better target care for people in communities of color, where the disease is moving most quickly. Barack Obama will tackle the root causes of health disparities by addressing differences in access to health insurance coverage and
promoting prevention and public health, both of which play a major role in addressing disparities. He will also challenge the medical system to eliminate inequities in health care through quality measurement and reporting, implementation of effective interventions such as patient navigation programs and diversification of
the health workforce.
Improve Quality of Life for Those Living with HIV/AIDS: Barack Obama is a strong supporter of the Ryan
White Care Act (RWCA), which provides critical access to life-saving treatment and care for over half a million
low-income Americans with HIV/AIDS.
Promote AIDS Prevention: In addition to assuring access to treatment, Barack Obama believes
we need to increase the focus on preventing new infections Barack Obama supports comprehensive sex education that is age-appropriate. They support increasing federal appropriations for science-based HIV prevention programs. They support the
JUSTICE Act, which would prevent transmission of HIV within the incarcerated population. They also support
legislation that would lift the ban on federal funding for needle exchange as a strategy to reduce HIV
transmission among injection drug users and their partners and children
-Assure Adequate and Safe Housing for Those Living With HIV: Barack Obama supports increased funding for Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) and other pertinent housing
programs
GLOBAL HIV/AIDS
Provide Universal Access for the Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Barack Obama and Joe Biden know that
in the 21st century, progress must not just mean political freedom – it must mean freedom from fear and
freedom from want. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that a comprehensive, long-term approach to
combating HIV/AIDS is an important investment in our common security and humanity. They have pledged to
provide at least $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, including our fair share of the
Global Fund, in order to at least double the number of HIV-positive people on treatment and continue to
provide treatments to one-third of all those who desperately need them. This funding will allow the U.S. to
meet its commitments that have been flat-funded by the Bush Administration, which includes expanding
existing programs to help the millions of children orphaned and made vulnerable by AIDS, increasing the
number of health care workers by at least one million, preventing violence against women and girls, and
improving health care systems so that U.S. assistance can be fully and effectively utilized
-Strengthen Health Care Infrastructure
-Increase Contribution to the Global Fund
-Increase Access to Affordable Drugs:
-Invest in Clean Water
-Invest in Comprehensive Poverty Reduction to Help Fight All Deadly Disease
1. President Obama wants to make healthcare affordable for all Americans. This will enable people with little or no income to be able to get the care they need.
2. He wants to expand services and has voted to replenish medicare and medicaid funding.
3. He says that states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4. President Barack Obama will allow the government to negotiate for lower drug prices and supports allowing sasfe prescription drugs overseas.
5. He wants to increase spending on global HIV/AIDS to 60 billion to assist in the epedemic
1.Obama said his health care plan would lower insurance premiums by up 2,500 a year. Experts we've conulted see little evidence such savings would materialize. Obama's plan exempts small business. Obama's i make sure that we have a health care system that allows for everyone to have basic coverage. Obama has consistently said that i would force people to have health care whether they could afford it or not.My plan will cover everyone and it will be affordable.Obama would provide subsidies to low income people to help them buy private health insurance.He also would create a national Health Insurance Exchange through which people could but public or private insurance.
2.The stance on medicare and medicaid is that Obama-Biden plan mprovides affordable accessible health care for all americans, builds on the existing healthcare system and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.Also, under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to makeheatlh care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
3.President Barack Obama's is prochoice but its for the right choices and for the family and love one's to make the right choice also.
4.However president Barack Obama has reform phase in lowing drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicine from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs un public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market
5.Obama plans to create a national aids strategy that focuses on the epidemic at home, while maintaing support aboard.Obama's comprechensive health care reformws, he was claimed would cover pre-existing condition's a huge problem for hiv positive americans currently trying to obatin health care.
1. President Barack Obama is purposing to make healthcare affordable and accessible to every citizen in the United States. To modernize the U.S. Healthcare system to lower costs and improve quality. Also to promote prevention and strengthing public health. President Obama also has an employer "pay or play" provision that would require an employer to either provide health insurance or contribute toward the cost of a public plan. This will improve healthcare for all peopble by: saving the typical family $2,500 every year, reduce unecessary spending on inefficient paper billing and management of chronic conditions.
2. President Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid is that, he would establish a new public program that would be a lot like Medicare. Eligible people would include, those under age 65 be available to those who don't have access to an employer plan or qualify for exisiting government programs like Medicaid or SCHIP. He would also expan eligibility for government programs like Medicaid.
3. President Obama's stance on euthanasia is that he opposes doctor induced euthanasia but supports palliative medicine. President Obama supports pro choice rights and states is is within a woman's right to decide on an abortion.
4. President Obama's stance on prescription drugs is that the senior citizens pay the highest cost for prescriptions. Under his plan, the government would negotiate lower costs for the Medicare program and prevent phamaceutical companies from blocking cheap and safe generic drugs from the market. The other issue that would be addressed is reviewing drug plans for seniors and evaulate which plans can better reduce out of pocket costs improvement of their health.
5. President Obama's stance on treatement of AIDS is that, this is global disease should be addressed whereas the government should work with drug companies to reduce costs of antiretroviral drugs and work with developing nations to help them build the health infrstructure that's necessary to ge sick people treated. Helping those with AIDS ge aequate nutrition aids in their treatment. So President Obama's three priorities include, reauthorizing this program when it expires, reassessing what has worked and what has not, lastly for the country to boost our monetary contribution to this effort.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
On health care reform, the American people are too often offered two extremes - government-run health care with higher taxes or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and that’s why they’ve proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference.
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options.
Make Health Insurance Work for People and Businesses - Not Just Insurance and Drug Companies.
Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
Lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
Make employer contributions more fair by requiring large employers that do not offer coverage or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of their employees health care.
Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
Ensure everyone who needs it will receive a tax credit for their premiums.
Reduce Costs and Save a Typical American Family up to $2,500 as reforms phase in:
Lower drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market
Require hospitals to collect and report health care cost and quality data
Reduce the costs of catastrophic illnesses for employers and their employees.
Reform the insurance market to increase competition by taking on anticompetitive activity that drives up prices without improving quality of care.
The Obama-Biden plan will promote public health. It will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
A Commitment to Fiscal Responsibility: Barack Obama will pay for his $50 - $65 billion health care reform effort by rolling back the Bush tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year and retaining the estate tax at its 2009 level.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Joe Biden and Barack Obama support amending the medicare homebound rule so that those with disabilities to leave their homes
without the fear of having the government benefits taken away. They believe that our medicare policy must reflect the common sense notion that community engagement and support is a vital component of meaningful life. They look forward to amending the law to remove arbituary means of acceptable time away from home and futher ensure that individuals do not have benefits removed unfairly.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
I think that there has to be very strict guidelines to ensure that somebody who is making a decision to relieve their pain [is acting appropriately]. That is distinguished from euthanasia in which someone else is making the decision for them.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Barack Obama called for a vote on a bi-partisan bill that would allow the re-importation of safe prescription drugs from industrialized countries at lower prices. "I ask for a Senate vote to allow safe imports of US-approved drugs that are manufactured in US-approved plants," Obama said. "And, I urge Jack Ryan to stop siding with the drug manufacturers and put aside his opposition to the re-importation of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada."
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
We are all sick because of AIDS and we are all tested by the crisis. Neither philanthropist nor scientist; neither government nor church can solve this problem on their own. AIDS must be an all hands on deck effort. I don't think we can deny that there is a moral and spiritual component to prevention--I heard stories of men and women contracting HIV because sex was no longer part of a sacred covenant but a mechanical physical act. Having said that, I also believe that we cannot ignore that abstinence--may not be the reality. If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths, they should be made more widely available.
[The US should] lead the global fight against the AIDS virus. The US must give its fair share to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to avoid both a humanitarian and economic crisis. President Bush's budget this year actually cuts the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund by 65 percent. As Senator, I will hold President Bush to his word and fully fund our commitment to the war on AIDS. We must also increase the availability of generic drugs to AIDS victims around the world.
1.Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and that’s why they’ve proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference.
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options
2. Obama has supported a number efforts to strengthen Medicare, including voting for legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper prescription drug prices and to extend the enrollment period for low-income beneficiaries.
3.Barack Obama stated that he regretted his vote to allow the family of Terri Schiavo to take their case to the federal courts to prevent her imminent death. He also stated that he thinks the state Oregon "did a service for the country" by passing a pro-assisted suicide referendum. Mr. Obama's position directly opposes the Catholic teaching that euthanasia or "mercy-killing" is wrong in all cases.
4.To lower drug costs, Obama and Biden will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program, just as it does to lower prices for our veterans. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas, and will prevent pharmaceutical companies from blocking cheap and safe generic drugs from the market.
Obama and Biden will require companies to send Medicare beneficiaries a full list of the drugs and fees they paid the previous year to help seniors determine which plans can better reduce their out-of-pocket costs and improve their health.
5.Obama wants to prevent HIV through education and more extensive testing. He also wants to advocate a national aids/hiv strategy that will involve all federal agencies.He also supports the Bush global initiative on hiv/aids.
1. President Obama will strengthen employer-based coverage, making insurance companies accountable and will ensure patient choice of doctors and care without government interference. If people like their coverage now, nothing would change but your cost will go down by as much as $2,500 per year. If you have no health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options. The lower cost will work for the people and businesses, not just insurance companies. President Obama will guarantee affordable, accessible healthcare coverage for all Americans.
2. President Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid is that we need to eliminate the excessive sudsidies to Medicare Advantage plans and pay them the same amount it would cost to treat the same patients under regular Medicare. Obama says that cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives. He has voted to preserve and strengthen programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs.
He will expand eligibility for programs like this and continue to serve as a safety net.
3. Obama's stance on euthanasia is that he believes: "In the case of a person who is not dying but whose physical and mental functioning is impaired, the question often arises as to whether we should keep them alive by feeding them. But there is no more of a doubt about keeping that person alive than about keeping alive anyone that is not impaired! There is no underlying cause of death in this case. To fail to feed such a person is to introduce a new cause of death, namely, stravation." He was referring to the Terri Schivo case.
4. Obama wants to allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices. He will repel the ban on the government being able to negotiate down the prices of prescription drugs, even though the Department of Verteran Affairs' negotiate prescrition drug prices with drug compaines. It is a savings for tax payers.
5. Obama stance treatment of AIDS is that during his first year of presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agenicies. It will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care, and reduce HIV-related health disparities. He will expand funding for research, especially prevention options including a vaccine and microbicides. He believes we need to increase the focus on preventing new infections. He says that we cannot keep pace with treatment needs if we don't also focus on prevention. He also wants to increase investments for HIV treatment.
1. Barack Obama is committed to signing universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in office that ensures all americans have high quality affordable health care coverage. this plan will save a typical american family up to 2,500 every year on medical expenditures by providing affordable comprehensive and portable health coverage for every american his health p;an will also ensure that people living with HIV have access to lifesaving treatment and care.
2. Obama's stance on medicaid is to continue to fight to stenggthen medicaid ,as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients Obama also supports medicare he has voted to strengthen and preserve these programs at every opportunity hes voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these pograms. He's concerned about medicare part D prescription drug program and its effect on our nations elderly and disabled.
3. Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the american people is to lower drug cost by allowing the importantion of safe medicines from other developed countries increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market.
4.Barack Obama has pledged that in his first year of his presidency, he will develop and begin to implament a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS stategy that includes all agencies. the strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections and reduce HIV- related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals timelines, and account ability mechanism.
5.Obama's stance on euthanasia. Obama is in favior of palliative medicines in circumstances where someone is terminally ill, he is mindful of the legitimate intrests of states to prevent a slide from palliative treatments into euthanasia. Obama promotes patients having a living will to register their treatment choices. Obama also sates that abortion is not being a form of euthanasia but giving women their rights to child birth.
1.President elect Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to all:
Provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
President Obama will lower health care costs:
Will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Promote public health:
Will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings.
Promoting and strengthening prevention and public health.
The Obama-Biden plan will create a
National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals purchase new affordable health care options if they are uninsured or want new health insurance.
2.He would establish a new public insurance program that would be available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid
Health program for individuals and families with low incomes and resources or SCHIP
A Federal/State partnership meant to expand health insurance to kids with parents who earn too much for Medicaid but not enough for private insurance nor have access to insurance through their employers.
proposes strengthening Medicare by ending subsidies to big HMOs and allowing the program to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices.
Barack
Obama and Joe Biden believe we need to eliminate the excessive subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
and pay them the same amount it would cost to treat the same patients under regular Medicare.
3.Obama states that he is in favor of palliative medicine in circumstances where someone is terminally ill. He opposes euthanasia.
4.Barack Obama and Joe Biden will allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S.
The Obama-Biden plan will
work to ensure that market power does not lead to higher prices for consumers. Their plan will work to
increase use of generic drugs in the new public plan, Medicare, Medicaid, FEHBP and prohibit large
drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
5.Barack Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his
presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce
HIV-related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines and accountability mechanisms. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcements promoting HIV/AIDS screening. As president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease.
(http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetAIDS.pdf)
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to al: The Obama-Biden plan provide affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs: the Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Obama will promote public health: Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase sate and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Barack Obama has pledged to sign universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in office that will assure that Americans with disabilities will have quality, affordable, portable coverage that will allow them to take a job without fear of losing coverage. People with disabilities who lose their Medicare or Medicaid eligibility by taking a job, but still cannot afford coverage, will be provided a subsidy in order to purchase coverage. Obama will expand eligibility for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Obama will expand eligibility for the medicaid and schip programs and ensure that these programs continue to serve their critical safety net function. Allow flexibility in embracing state health reform initiatives.
Obama would provide premium subsidies to individuals and families who are not eligible for employer-based care or a government program. Barack Obama is also committed to ensuring that disabled Americans receive Medicaid and Medicare benefits in a low-cost, effective and timely manner.
3.What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Barack Obama stated that he regretted his vote to allow the family of Terri Schiavo to take their case to the federal courts to prevent her imminent death. He also stated that he thinks the state Oregon "did a service for the country" by passing a pro-assisted suicide referendum. In his own words "It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped”, “And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better," he added.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Obama will prevent companies from abusing their monopoly power through unjustified price increases. His plan will force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care instead of keeping exorbitant amounts for profits and administration. His new national health insurance exchange will help increase competition by insurers. The second-fastest growing type of health expenses is prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are selling the exact same drugs in Europe and Canada but charging Americans more than double the price. Obama will allow Americans to buy cheaper medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe. Obama will also repeal the ban that prevents the government from negotiating with drug companies for the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which could result in savings as high as $30 billion. Finally, Obama will work to increase the use of generic drugs in federal benefits programs and prohibit drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's? President Barack Obama wants to Fight AIDS Worldwide. Barack has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency that he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines and accountability mechanism. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcement promoting HIV/AIDS screening. As president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease. Barack Obama has worked in both the Illinois and U.S. Senate to increase awareness and to promote greater investment for HIV/AIDS in America and abroad. As president, he will continue to be a global leader in the fight against AIDS.
1. President Barack Obama purposing is to make healthcare insurance affordable for everyone.It ensures that by doing so, insurance companies will cut cast as low as 2,500 per year to those who don't have health care.
2.Barack Obama, want to expand services and has voted to replenish medicare and medicaid funding. Also patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
3. He opposes doctor induced euthanasia but supports palliative medicine. Obama supports pro choice right and states it is with in a woman's right to decide on an abortion.
4.Barack said, he will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug price for the medicare programe, also supports allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas.
5. He will make more antiviral drugs available to people in extreme poverty, also Barack believes that U.S.A. must give it's fair share to the Global fund to fight Aids.
1. The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible healthcare for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
The Obama plan will lower healthcare costs by 2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
2. Obama's stance on Medicare/Medicaid is to provide affordable, comprehensive and portable healthcare, health IT investment, which will reduce unnecessary spending in the system that results from preventable errors and inefficient paper billing sytems, improving prevention and management of chronic conditions, increasing insurance industry competition and reducing underwriting costs and profits, which will reduce insurance overhead, reduce insurance premiums, and making health insurance universal which will reduce spending on uncompensated care.
3. Obama is pro-abortion. He believes in protecting a womans right to choose, but he also has a plan to reduce unintended pregnancies.
4. Obama's proposed reforms to the Medicare prescription drug program include allowing Americans to buy their medications from developing countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in the Medicare/Medicaid programs, and repealing the ban preventing the government from negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices.
5. Obama's stance on AIDS is that we need to slow the rate on new infection, and also treat the 40 million plus people living with HIV/AIDS. He also encourages people to get tested.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing for America and how it will improve health care for all people.
President Barack Obama will make health care affordable and accessible for every American by building on the current insurance system and leaving Medicare intact for the older and disabled
Americans. The plan will lower annual health care costs by $2500 for a typical family.For Americans satisfied with their current health insurance, nothing will change except that their cost will go down. This plan will cover all essential medical services including preventive, maternity, disease management and mental health care. Costs will be low and Americans who cannot afford it and do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP(State Children's Health Insurance Program)will receive a tax subsidy to pay for coverage. Care will be high-quality and coverage will be portable and easy to enroll in and use.Obama will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase private insurance. The Exchange will act as a watchdog group and help reforn the private insurance market by creating rules and standards for participating insurance plans to ensure fariness and to make individual coverage more affordable and accessible. Insurers will have to issue every applicant a policy and charge fair and stable premiums.It will also require disease mangament programs and integrated preventive care to help bring down the costs of caring for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure:
2.What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Obama will expand eligibility for Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program. Obama will expand eligibility for the medicaid and schip programs and ensure that these programs continue to serve their critical safety net function.People with disabilties could lose their medicaid or medicare if they take a job, but can't afford coverage will receive a subsidy to help ppay for insurance. America's commitment is to care for the elderly and the poor. Cuts to meicare and medicaid will seriously harm all those who have worked all their lives, paid to the system and need help. Medicaid and Medicare is the Nation's safety net.
3.What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthansia?
Obama Had a standing pro-obortion position and on Tuesday reiterated his stance that helping save Terri Schiavo from a euthansia death was the wrong thing to do. Obama called his vote for a bill to allow her family to take their lawsuit to save her life to federal court was his biggest mistake.
4.What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Make up front investments to $50 billion in electronic health information technology systems to reduce errors, saving lives and money.Requiring health plans to disclose what precentage of premiums actually go to patient care as opposed to administrative cost.Obama will address the rising cost of prescription drugs the second-fastest growing type of health expense. To bring costs down the Obama-Biden plan will allow Americans to import inexpensive and safe drugs from other countries,increase the use of generic drugs in all public health plans, stop large drug companies from paying to leep generics out of markets just to preserve their profits and create a pathway to bring generic vaccines and other biologic meidcines to the market. And it will allow medicare to negoiate with drug companies for better prices.
5.What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of Aids?
Obama's comprehensive health care reforms he has claimed would cover pre-existing conditions-a huge problem for HIV positive American's currently trying to obtain health insurance.Barack Obama and Biden has promised to give us a national stragety in the first year of their administration.With the Ryan White Care Act up for reauthorization next year and the potential to pass the Early Treatment of HIV Act they need hand-in-hand with congress to make this happen. Barack Obama has made a stance to fight this epidemic if elected.
1. President Barack Obama believes that every American should have access to affordable health care coverage options. He plans to build on the existing healthcare system, and use existing providers, doctors, and plans to implement the plan.
2. President Obama plans to extend the enrollment of Medicare without penalty and allow for a one-time plan change during the first year of the plan. President Obama will continue to fight to strenghten medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients. He plans to restore funding to these programs and against budgets that cut these programs.
3. President Obama thinks it is none of the federal government's business to allow doctors to intentionally starve a person to death.
4. President Obama will allow Americans to import inexpensive and safe prescription drugs from developed countries where the same medicines are cheaper. Increase the use of generic drugs in all public health plans, stop large drug companies from paying to keep generics out of the markets to preserve their profits and create a pathway to bring generic vaccines and other biologic medicines to the market. Allow Medicare to negotiate for better prices.
5. President Barack Obama will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The stragety will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparties. Obama will ensure that people living with HIV have access to lifesaving treatment and care. Obama is a cosponsor of the Early Treatment for HIV Act which will provide Medicaid coverage to more low-income, HIV-positive Americans. The bill will also increase the number of people who receive the medications necessary to treat HIV infections. Obama believe we need to increase the focus on preventing new infections. He will expand funding for research for prevention options including vaccine and microbicides. Obama pledges to provide at least $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, including our fair share of the Global Fund, in order to at least double the number of HIV-positive people on treatment and continue to provide treatments to one-third of all those who desperately need them.
President Barack Obama Stance on Healthcare
1. The healthcare change he is proposing to make for America is the Universal Healthcare Plan, his care plan includes implementing guaranteed eligibility for affordable healthcare for all Americans, which is to be paid for by insurance reform, reducing costs, removing patent protection for pharmaceuticals, and required employer contributions. He also has promised to bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.
2. Barack Obama’s stance on Medicare and Medicaid is that he has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs. Senator Obama is a cosponsor of the Medicare informed Choice Act, which would have extended enrollment without penalty and allow for a one-time plan change during the first year of the plan. He will continue to fight to strengthen Medicaid.
3. Barack Obama’s stance on euthanasia is that he believes in everyone having a living will so that their views on the issue can be addressed by family members. He does not believe that it is appropriate to give this power to doctors to make the decision themselves. But he believes it is important for the U.S to allow people who are terminally ill, in excruciating pain, to get the medicine they need to relieve that pain. He believes there is to very strict guidelines to ensure that someone who is making a decision to relieve their pain is acting appropriately. That is distinguished from euthanasia in which someone else is making the decision for them.
4. His stance on prescription drugs and there cost to the American people and the issues that have come up surrounding this are that the U.S is the largest market for pharmaceuticals in the world, yet we pay the highest prices for brand pharmaceuticals. A meaningful program should provide a benefit that people could understand and count on, and reduce the cost of drugs. To help lower the cost of prescription drugs, Obama has supported efforts to allow American seniors to purchase prescription drugs in Canada and bring them back to the U.S. He also has supported giving Medicare the ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
5. His stance on the treatment of AIDS is a strong education component and that abstinence education is also important. He also thinks that contraception and treatment are important and he thinks that we have to do more to make antiviral drugs available to people who are in extreme poverty. We must overcome he stigma that exist in our communities. We don’t talk about AIDS/HIV in schools or in churches.
1. Barack Obama has a plan to expand coverage, lower costs, improve care and ensure that no one could be denied care because of a pre-existing condition or illness. Obama's plan begins by covering every American. If someone already have health insurance, the only thing that will change under this plan is that the amount of money spent on premiums. This amount will be less. 45 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, will after this plan becomes law.
2. Under the Obama's plan, insurers will not be able to deny coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens.
3. President Obama discussed abortion as not being a form of euthanasia but as allowing the young girl or women a way of not having more of a burden placed on them. He opposes doctor induced euthanasia but supports palliative medicine.
4. Our seniors pay the highest prices in the world for brand-name drugs. To lower drug costs, Obama and Biden will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program, just as it does to lower prices for our veterans. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas, and will prevent pharmaceutical companies from blocking cheap and safe generic drugs from the market.
5. Obama' view on AIDS is that we should use whatever the best approaches are, the scientifically sound approaches are, to reduce this devastating disease.
Obama stated that everyone is sick because of AIDS and we are all tested by the crisis. Neither philanthropist nor scientist; neither government nor church can solve this problem on their own. AIDS must be an all hands on deck effort. There is a moral and spiritual component to prevention. We cannot ignore that abstinence may not be the reality. If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths, they should be made more widely available.
1. Barack Obama change in health care is Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
2. President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid isSenator Obama is concerned about the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and its effect on our nation's elderly and disabled. In particular, he is concerned about the difficulty encountered when enrolling and choosing among a large number of plans (more than 40 in Illinois); the restrictions on changing plan selection after enrollment; the prohibition against negotiating for the best drug price or discounts, and the high costs of the program for seniors. Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens. Senator Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs.
B. Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, Senator Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3.Barack Obama's stances on euthanasia who favors a legal right to abortion, noted that he was trying to "reduce the number of abortions." But he went too far when he falsely accused President Bush of failing to meet that same goal, saying incorrectly that "over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down."
OBAMA thinks it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people. And it is true that this is going to be, think, one of the most consequential decisions of the next president. It is very likely that one of us will be making at least one and probably more than one appointments and Roe vs. Wade probably hangs in the balance. He will look for those judges who have an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through.Expand access to contraception; reduce unintended pregnancy
Rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007
Voted against banning partial birth abortion
Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 major diseases
Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion
Extend presumption of good faith to abortion protesters
Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill
Protect a woman's right to choose
Supports Roe v. Wade
Sponsored bill providing contraceptives for low-income women
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance
Ensure access to and funding for contraception
NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion Strongly
NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP
YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives
NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions
YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines
4. President Barack Obama stances on prescription drugs and their cost to the people is Obama will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas. Committed to the long-term strength of the Medicare program. They will reduce waste in the Medicare system and will tackle fundamental healthcare reform.
5. President Barack Obama stance on HIV/AIDS is promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of Senator Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world.
While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, Senator Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
In Illinois, an estimated 40,000 - 42,000 individuals are living with HIV/AIDS. The Ryan White Care Act (RWCA) provides the majority of Federal support for those suffering from HIV/AIDS in our country. This legislation was reauthorized during the final hours of the 109th Congress, although changes in the epidemic - as well as insufficient funding - made it a difficult reauthorization to tackle. Throughout the reauthorization process, Senator Obama worked closely with RWCA service providers, the Chicago Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Department of Public Health to analyze and find ways to improve the program for Illinois and for the nation. Senator Obama will continue to protect the multifaceted care upon which RWCA beneficiaries depend.
Over the last few years, it has become clear that women are rapidly becoming the new face of the AIDS epidemic, both here in the United States and around the world. We are faced with the sobering statistic that by the end of the day, another 7,000 women will have been infected with HIV. In the United States, the percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS has quadrupled over the last twenty years. In fact, AIDS is now the number one cause of death among African-American women aged 25-34.
In order to expedite the availability of preventive tools for women, Senator Obama is the lead Democratic sponsor of the Microbicide Development Act, which encourages scientific leadership on this issue and strengthens research and development programs at the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The legislation would also establish a unit at the NIH specifically dedicated to microbicide research. Microbicides are a class of products currently under development that women could use to protect themselves from contracting HIV, even while conceiving children. When fully developed, experts predict that microbicides could stop 2.5 million infections over three years in women, men, and infants.
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President Barack Obama on Healthcare
1. Barack Obama’s healthcare plan will make health affordable to most Americans by reducing cost. One fourth of all medical costs goes to Administration and overhead cost, and reliance of a antiquated paper based records and information system. Money will be saved by converting paper record to digital computer records. He will provide affordable and assessable healthcare to all and invest in high-value preventive services such as cancer screening and immunization. Obama will invest in prevention and public health systems, which will help Americans stay healthy and lower cost from having to treat preventable diseases.
2. Obama views Medicaid and Medicare programs as examples of successful state federal partnerships that covers millions of low income children, adults, disabled, and senior citizens. His plan is to increase the funding to keep it sustainable, instead of dismantling them. The Obama plain will actually expand Medicare and Medicaid to cover more families and working people.
3. In 2005 Obama voted with a unanimous U.S. senate to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her death. Obama in his debate with Senator Hilary Clinton declared this vote the biggest mistake he made as a senator. During this debate, Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation. “And as a constitutional professor, I should have known better.” He added.
4. the Obama plan will aggressively hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for unfair and abusive practices that are raising prices for families and employers. He will lower drug cost by allowing the importation of safe medicines fro mother developed countries increasing the use of generic drugs in public.
5. Barack Obama has pledged that in this first year of presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDs strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care, and reduce HIV-related health disparities. His strategies will include measurable goals, timelines, and accountability mechanisms. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcements promoting HIV/AIDs screening. As president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease. He is committed to targeting resources to promote innovative HIV/AIDs testing initiatives in minority communities and partnering with a wide range of community leaders from churches and community organizations.
) Obama healthcare plan.
Obama will require employers accept small businesses to provide health insurance to their employees or contribute to the cost.
He will expand medical and state children’s health insurance programs.
He will create a national health insurance exchange to pool risk and give people the choice of competing private or public health plan.
Obama’s plan will cover more uninsured people in America than ever before if implemented.
He will require all children to have insurance
Obama will pay for this plan by rolling back President Bush’s tax cut on people making more than $250,000 a year and keeping the estate tax at 2009 levels.
2) Obama will pledge a universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in the office that will assure that American with disabilities will have quality, affordable, portable coverage that will allow them to take a job without fear of losing coverage. Medicare, Medicaid present America’s commitment to take care of the most vulnerable citizens. About 47 million Americans from different walks of life rely on Medicaid for their healthcare.
3) Euthanasia has often been referring as mercy killing, ending another’s life to prevent them from suffering any more of life’s ills. But more than that it has always been held as a sad good bye, providing material for haunting nightmare’s, the act of the killing it self just as necessary as death is to life.
Obama said he will favor of palliative medicine in situation where someone is terminally ill. He said he is mindful of the legitimate interest of the state to prevent a slide from palliative treatments into euthanasia. He said society has to be very careful in making end of life decision, he prefer patient having a living will to register their treatment choice.
4) Obama has proposed several steps to help lower the cost of prescription drugs, and improve access to generic drugs that cost less.
Obama will achieve this doing the following:
A)Obama will lift the ban that currently prevent the federal government from negotiating with drug companies to get lower prices on drugs for the medical\id program, just as it does to lower drug prices foe veterans. Annual savings from this measure alone could be as high as $30 billion
B) Obama will increase the use of generic drugs in Medicare, Medicaid, and the federal employees health benefits plan, and preventing pharmaceutical companies from blocking sate low cost generic drugs from reaching the market.
C) Obama will close the so called doughnut hole in Medicare part D prescription drug program. The doughnut hole is the gap in coverage that happens when an individual reaches an initial spending limit and must pay for all drug cost until a second higher amount is reaches. The doughnut hole cost many individuals seniors thousands of dollars very year.
D Obama will make low cost prescription drugs a priority of his proposed healthcare plan.
5) Obama’s comprehensive healthcare reforms he has proposed would cover the pre-existing conditions, a huge problem for HIV positive Americans currently trying to obtain healthcare. He plan to create a national AIDS strategy that will focus on the epidemic at home, while maintaining support abroad. He said we have an epidemic in the united states which, in many ways have not slowed down. He said he can not imagine anything more important than having a national AIDS strategy that will focus on combating
The disease.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people? The kind of healthcare change that President Barack Obama is purposing to make for America and to improve healthcare for all people is:
A.President Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to all.
B. The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible healthcare for all Americans builds on existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Obama will lower health costs by 2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
C. Promote public health: Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid? President Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid are Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens. Senator Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia are end of life self medication is ok but euthanasia by others are not ok. He believes that everybody has a living will but he doesn't think its appropriate for doctors themselves to make that decision. People who are terminally ill, in excruciating pain, to get the medicine they need to relieve that pain and that there should be strict guidelings to ensure that somebody who is making a decision to relieve their pain [is acting appropriately].
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on perscription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue? President Obama's stance on perscription drugs and their cost to the American people are to Provide cheaper prescription drugs:
Obama and Biden will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of Aids? President Obama's stance on the treatment of AIDS are:
A. A strong education component and abstinence education.
B. Contraception is important; and treatment is important.
C. Making antiviral drugs available to people who are in extreme poverty.
D. He encourages churches to talk about AIDS and have condom distribution to deal with scourage of AIDS.
E. He encourages people to get tested.
F. He holds President Bush to his word to fully fund their commitment to the war on AIDS he also says "We must increase the availability of generic drugs to AIDS victims around the world.
spips1.Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to all:
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs:
The Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Promote public health:
Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
2.*Medicare
Some 42 million American seniors are served by Medicare, including 1.7 million in Illinois. Medicare is a promise we have made to our seniors, and along with Social Security, it is essential to a dignified and financially sound retirement. Cuts to Medicare will seriously harm those who have worked all their lives, paid into the system, and need medical care.
Senator Obama is concerned about the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and its effect on our nation's elderly and disabled. In particular, he is concerned about the difficulty encountered when enrolling and choosing among a large number of plans (more than 40 in Illinois); the restrictions on changing plan selection after enrollment; the prohibition against negotiating for the best drug price or discounts, and the high costs of the program for seniors.
* Medicaid
Medicaid is the nation's health safety net. Over 53 million Americans of all ages, including 2 million Illinoisans, rely on Medicaid for their health care. As a member of the Senate's Medicaid Working Group, Senator Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
3.STANCE ON EUTHANASIA: The question to Sen. Obama from an Oregon newspaper was: "A couple of other issues of interest to Oregonians involve initiatives passed by the voters that have come into conflict with the federal government: physician-assisted suicide and medical marijuana. Do you support those two concepts?" - For our purposes here only the physician-assisted suicide response will be included.]
"I am in favor of palliative medicine in circumstances where someone is terminally ill. ... I'm mindful of the legitimate interests of states to prevent a slide from palliative treatments into euthanasia. On the other hand, I think that the people of Oregon did a service for the country * in recognizing that as the population gets older we've got to think about issues of end-of-life care. ..."
4.In Illinois, we created I-Save Rx to help consumers save 25-80% percent on the cost of safe, name-brand prescription medications purchased from approved pharmacies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. We know that the FDA has seized and tested approximately 1% of the prescription drugs imported through I-Save Rx and has never found fault with any of the medications.
5.Obama’s letter conveyed his knowledge of the complex global and domestic challenges posed by HIV/AIDS and his pledge to pursue a comprehensive approach in confronting this crisis at home. Unlike his opponent, Obama stated his commitment to the development of a National AIDS Strategy that includes federal action along with matching state and local initiatives designed to expand access to HIV testing, education programs, and, if needed, treatment across communities.
Moreover, Obama understands the roles economic and health disparities play in perpetuating the AIDS epidemic in our society. Therefore, he supports affordable and accessible healthcare for all Americans, along with supportive programs to provide housing and other forms of assistance to persons living with HIV/AIDS. He knows that medications alone are not sufficient if persons with AIDS are to live longer, healthier lives.
1.Promoting affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care was a priority for Barack Obama in the Illinois State Senate and is a priority for him in the United States Senate. He believes firmly that health care should be a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
2.Medicare and Medicaid represent America's commitment to take care of the elderly and the poor--some of our most vulnerable citizens. Senator Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs.
3.He believes it's important for us to be able to allow people who are terminally ill, in excrutiating pain, to get the medications they need to relieve that pain.He says states can restrict late term abortions but women should have the right to choose.
4.Obama will allow Americans to buy cheaper medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe.
5.Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of President Obama's.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people. He promised that he will make insurances affordable and accessible for all American, using the existing health care system, that way the employers can afford to offer insurance, and the employee can afford it.2.- What is the President Barack Obama’s stance on Medicare and Medicaid? President Obama promised to sign a Healthcare Legislation by the end of the first term in Office that will assure Americans with disabilities to have quality and affordable insurance, He recognize the importance and the need for the poor and the elderly to have access to healthcare.3.- What is the President Barack Obama’s stance on Euthanasia?The President Barack Obama mentioned about abortion, that every woman has the right to do with her body whatever she thinks is right, however he also mention that the states can regulate abortion in late stages. He also made comments in favor of extending the death penalty for child rapists. 4.- What is the President Barack Obama’s stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue? President Obama supports allowing safe prescription drugs from overseas, he also want to work on preventing drug companies for blocking generic drugs from customers, and allow Medicare, and Medicaid to negotiate for cheaper drug prices and encourage the use of generic drugs.5.- What is President Barack Obama’s stance on treatment of AID’s?He recognized the gravity of AID’s therefore, the importance of promoting the prevention of AID’s as well as accelerating researches and development of treatment for the disease.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs:
The Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Promote public health:
Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters
2. What is President Barack Obamas stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Rural health care providers often get less money from Medicare and Medicaid for the very same procedure performed in urban areas. Obama and Biden will work to ensure a more equitable Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement structure. They will attract providers to rural America by creating a loan forgiveness program for doctors and nurses who work in underserved rural areas. They support increasing rural access to care by promoting health information technologies like telemedicine.
3. What is President Barack Obamas stance on Euthanasia?
He would not choose abortion as a means of birth control under any circumstances. Obama supports palliative medicine but not in favor of euthanasia
4. What is President Barack Obamas stance on prescription drugs and their cost on the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Obama will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas.
5.What is President Barack Obamas stance ontreatment of AIDS?
Promoting the prevention of HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, as well as accelerating the research and development of treatments for the disease, is a priority of Senator Obama's. With 8,000 AIDS-related deaths and 14,000 new infections every day, HIV/AIDS will likely become the third leading cause of death in the world.
While traveling in Africa in August of 2006, Senator Obama and his wife took a public HIV test in hopes of decreasing the stigma surrounding testing. Additionally, Senator Obama calls for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS efforts into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa, and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention.
In Illinois, an estimated 40,000 - 42,000 individuals are living with HIV/AIDS. The Ryan White Care Act (RWCA) provides the majority of Federal support for those suffering from HIV/AIDS in our country. This legislation was reauthorized during the final hours of the 109th Congress, although changes in the epidemic - as well as insufficient funding - made it a difficult reauthorization to tackle. Throughout the reauthorization process, Senator Obama worked closely with RWCA service providers, the Chicago Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Department of Public Health to analyze and find ways to improve the program for Illinois and for the nation. Senator Obama will continue to protect the multifaceted care upon which RWCA beneficiaries depend.
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Healthcare change…
The Obama-Biden healthcare plan provides affordable, accessible healthcare for all American, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. This plan will include some of the following
1. Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits and stable premiums.
2. Create a new Small Business Tax credit to help small business provide affordable health insurance to their employees
3. Prevent insurers from over charging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
4. Ensure everyone who needs it will receive a tax credit for their premiums.
5. Lower costs for business by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
Obama’s stance on Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid represents America’s commitment to take care of the elderly and poor-some of our most vulnerable citizens. Obama has promised to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has promised to restore funding to these programs and has eliminated those budgets that cut these programs. As senate Obama was a cosponsor of the Medicare Informed Choice Act and he help draft and introduce the National Medic Act which promotes patient safety initiatives, including early disclosure and compensations to patients injured by medical errors.
Euthanasia…
Obama believes in everybody having a living will so that their views on these issues (end-of-life medication) can be factored in by family members. He thinks that it’s appropriate to empower doctors themselves to make those decisions. He believes that it is important for us to be able to allow people who are terminally ill, in excruciating pain, to get the medication they need to relieve that pain.
Prescription drugs
Obama has said he will take on drug and insurance companies and hold them accountable for the prices they charge and the harm they cause. He has highlighted a prescription drug plan he said could save seniors on Medicare $175, billion over the next decade. A centerpiece of the Obama prescription drug plan is ending laws that forbid Medicare officials from bargaining with drug companies for lower prescription drug prices. The laws were put in place when Congress included a prescription drug benefit in the nation’s Medicare program, but Obama sees such flexibility to seek out the best deals as a key to controlling skyrocketing prescription drug prices. Obama also wants to give Americans the right to buy cheaper prescriptions directly from Canada and other developed nations, and boost the use of generic drugs in Medicare and other public health programs.
HIV/AIDS
This situation is a priority of Obama. With 8,000 AIDS related deaths and 14,000 new cases everyday it likely that HIV/AIDS will become the third leading cause of death in the world. While in Africa in August 2006 Obama and his wife Michelle took a public HIV/AIDS test in hopes of decrease the stigma surrounding testing. Obama's call for an increase of at least $1 billion per year for the President’s Emergency plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR) in order to expand our global AIDS effort into Asia and the Middle East, enhance our work in Africa and further address issues such as nutrition and prevention. The RWCA (The Ryan White Care Act) provided the majority of Federal support for those living with AID
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people? President elect Barack Obama has proposed sweeping changes in the health care system, which designed to allow health coverage to millions of uninsured people. Obama wants to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone. He also, related to a more personal aspect with his mother with different types of cancer. who could not afford to pay her medical bills. His plan would extend coverage for everyone. Barack will lower the average family health insurance premiums about $2,250 per year. Equal opportunity for all.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
The president elect stance on Medicare and concerned about the Medicare part d prescription drug program, feels it is just to many elderly seniors that can't afford there medicine even though they are on social security. He opposes the large number of plans to choose from in Illinois. There are restrictions on changing after enrollment, the prohibition against negotiating for the best price or discount. Obama is also co-sponsor of the MEDICARE INFORMED CHOICE ACT.
Medicaid. Obama understands that all need a good health coverage plan and he will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid. He will also work with providers who care for a large number of uninsured patients.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Barack stance on Euthanasia, he stated that his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous senate to help save a lady from florida (Terri Schiavo). Who husband won legal rights to starve her to death Obama fells he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation. He is not comfortable with it; he realized he should have stopped it. He states, "He should have known better".
4.What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
The U.S is the largest market for Pharmaceuticals in the world. Barack feels our seniors pay the highest prices. The Medicare part d was supposed to address this problem but instead created a problem.
It limits benefits for seniors more than $2,250 in annual costs. Obama was not in congress when they passed the part d program. "He states he would have opposed it”. Barack have stated that he support seniors to purchase prescription drugs in Canada and bring them back; he supports giving Medicare the right to negotiate lower drug prices. With this plan every body can afford their medication not just the seniors.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's? Obama stance on HIV/AIDS is to work publicly to prevent the disease; also, to help develop a treatment for the disease. While traveling in Africa Obama and his wife took HIV/AIDS test publicly. Obama calls for an increase for more money to fund research and development and Presidents Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR). He want to expand the knowledge to other countries like Asia, Middle East, and enhance the work that’s being done in Africa. This will increase nutritional and prevention methods to control and prevent the disease. IN Illinois it is estimated that 40,000-42,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, more than half are African Americans are more prominent to the disease. Obama will be doing more to educate people about HIV/AIDS. The president elect is the exert change will need in all aspect of living not just in health care alone but other sector such as government police and economy.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
The Obama plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
President Barack Obama plans to build and improve our current insurance system, which most americans continue to rely upon and leave medicare intact for older and disable americans. Under the plan americans will be able to maintain their current coverage, have assess to new affordable option , and see their quility of their health care improve and their cost go down.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who disagree with him. However, he has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as President. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in that case.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Barack Obama plans to
Lower drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market .
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
Barack Obama pledges that in his first year of his presidency,he will develope and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agency.the strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infection, increase assess to care and reduce HIV related Disparties.
1. President Obama breaks hie health care reform plan down into three parts:a.Quality,Affordable,&Portable Health Coverage for all. b.Modernizing the US Health acre System to Lower Costs and Improve Quality. c.Promoting Prevention & Strengthening Public Health.
Claims that his health care reform plan will save the typical family up to 2,500 every year.
Making health insurance universal which will reduce spending on uncompensated care.
Increasing insurance industry competition and reducing underwriting costs and profits in order to reduce insurance overhead.
2 Preserving and Improving Medicare and Medicaid. As Senator Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs.Obama is a cosponsor of the the Medicare Informed Choice Act which would have extended enrollment without penalty and allowed for one time plan change during the first year of the plan.
Obama will continue the fight to strengthen Medicaid, as well as help providers who care for large numbers of and uninsured patients.
3.President Obama believe we as people have choices the government should not be able to interfere we as women have a right to choose life,abortion,or adoption. He believe that we the people should have a living will. And there should be very strict guidelines to ensure that somebody who is making the decision to relieve their pain is acting appropriately.
4. President Obama will allow Americans to buy cheaper medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe. Obama will also repeal the ban that prevents the government from negotiating with drug companies for the medicare prescription drug benefit which could result in savings as high as 30 billion. Finally, Obama will work to increase the use of generic drugs in federal benefits programs and prohibit drug companies from keeping generics out of markets.
5. President Obama compliments George Bush on the PEDFAR program [Presidents Emergency Plan for Aids Relief]. His views is that we should use whatever the best approaches are, the scientifically sound approaches are, to reduce this devastating disease.Part of that should be a strong education component and he also think abstinence education is important; contraception is important; treatment is important; he also believe that we have to do more to make antiviral drugs available to people who are in extreme poverty. we also need condom distribution to deal with the scourge of AIDS. The US must give its fair share to the Global Funds to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis. and Malaria to avoid both a humanitarian and economic crisis. We must also increase the availability of generic drugs to AIDS victims around the world. As Senator he was fully committed to the war on AIDS.
Obama and his wife was got tested for AIDS in public, in Kenya.Curing AIDS must be all-hands-on deck-effort.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barrack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people? .President Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to every one. President Obama will provide affordable, accessible health care for all Americans. He will build on the existing healthcare system, and use existing providers, doctors, and plans to implement the plan. President Obama will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention, and care coordination. The Obama proposal will also take on the big drug and insurance companies to ensure that Americans have access to safe and cheap prescription drugs.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid? President Obama has voted to preserve and strengthen these programs at every opportunity. He has voted to restore funding to these programs and has voted against budgets that cut these programs. President Obama is a cosponsor of the Medicare Informed Choice Act, which would have extended enrollment without penalty and allowed for a one-time plan change during the first year of the plan. He helped draft and introduce the National Medic Act, which promotes patient safety initiatives, including early disclosure and compensation to patients injured by medical errors. He also introduced the Hospital Quality Report Card Act, which will use federal hospital quality reporting requirements to inform and assist patients and other consumers in making their health care decisions.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia? President Obama believes it is important for the U.S to allow people who are terminally ill or in pain, to get the medicine they need to relieve pain. President Obama is in favor of palliative medicine in circumstances where someone is terminally ill. He strongly opposes euthanasia.
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue? President Obama wants to increase use of generic drugs in the new public plan. Medicare, Medicaid, prohibits large drug companies from keeping generics out of markets. This policy would make prescription medication more affordable for hard working families in the United States. The Obama plan will work to ensure that market power does not lead to higher prices for consumers
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of Aid’s? President Obama believes that condoms should be widely available. President Obama wants to work with drug companies to reduce the costs of generic anti-retroviral drugs, and work with developing nations to help them build the health infrastructure that is necessary to get sick people treated this means more money for hospitals and medical equipment, and more training for nurses and doctors. Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections; increase access to care and reduce HIV related health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines and accountability mechanisms.Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcements promoting HIV/AIDS screening.
1. What kind of healthcare change is President Barack Obama purposing to make for America and how will this improve healthcare for all people?
Plan for a Healthy America
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan
On health care reform, the American people are too often offered two extremes - government-run health care with higher taxes or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and that’s why they’ve proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference.
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan. Under the Obama-Biden plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats.
Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options.
Make Health Insurance Work for People and Businesses - Not Just Insurance and Drug Companies.
•Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
•Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
•Lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
•Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
•Make employer contributions fairer by requiring large employers that do not offer coverage or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees to contribute a percentage of payrolls toward the costs of their employees’ health care.
•Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
•Ensure a tax credit for their premiums. Everyone who needs it will receive it.
Reduce Costs and Save a Typical American Family up to $2,500 as reforms phase in:
•Lower drug costs by allowing the importation of safe medicines from other developed countries, increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs and taking on drug companies that block cheaper generic medicines from the market
•Require hospitals to collect and report health care cost and quality data
•Reduce the costs of catastrophic illnesses for employers and their employees.
•Reform the insurance market to increase competition by taking on anticompetitive activity that drives up prices without improving quality of care.
The Obama-Biden plan will promote public health. It will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
A Commitment to Fiscal Responsibility: Barack Obama will pay for his $50 - $65 billion health care reform effort by rolling back the Bush tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year and retaining the estate tax at its 2009 level.Fix the Nation’s Health Care System: 47 million Americans are uninsured in this country. Barack Obama is committed to signing universal health care legislation by the end of his first term in office that ensures all Americans have high-quality, affordable health care coverage. Obama’s plan will save a typical American family up to $2,500 every year on medical expenditures by providing affordable, comprehensive and portable health coverage for every American; modernizing the U.S. health care system to contain spiraling health care
Costs and improve the quality of patient care; and promoting prevention and strengthening public health to prevent disease and protect against natural and man-made disasters.
2. What is President Barack Obama's stance on Medicare and Medicaid?
Protect and Strengthen Medicare: Obama and Biden are committed to the long-term strength of the Medicare program. They will reduce waste in the Medicare system, including eliminating subsidies to the private insurance Medicare Advantage program, and tackle fundamental health care reform to improve the quality and efficiency of our healthcare system. They support closing the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
3. What is President Barack Obama's stance on euthanasia?
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:14:38 PM by NYer
Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death.
In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.
Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required a feeding tube to eat and drink. Her family had filed a lawsuit against her former husband to allow them to care for her and give her proper medical and rehabilitative care.
The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill, which the House eventually supported on a lopsided bipartisan vote and President Bush signed, to help the disabled woman.
During the Tuesday debate, Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.
“It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said.
“And I think that was a mistake and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,” he added.
This isn't the first time Obama has said the biggest mistake he made as senator was voting to help try to stop Terri from being euthanized.
During an April 2007 debate, Obama said, "I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”
"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.
Since Terri’s death, the Schindler family has established a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients obtain proper medical care and legal and other assistance when they are denied it.
Life News ^ | February 26, 2008 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:14:38 PM by NYer
4. What is President Barack Obama's stance on prescription drugs and their cost to the American people and what issues have come up surrounding this issue?
Prescription Drugs
Provide cheaper prescription drugs:
Obama and Biden will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the Medicare program. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas.
Effectively utilized taxpayer dollars are available off-patent in developing countries. The U.S. is the largest market for pharmaceuticals in the world, yet our seniors pay the highest prices for brand pharmaceuticals. The Medicare Part D Program was supposed to address this problem but instead created a “doughnut hole” which limits drug benefits for seniors with more than $2,250 in annual costs. (Senator Obama was not in the Senate in 2003 when Congress passed the Part D program but would have opposed it.) For many seniors, this is a particularly devastating example of "bait and switch." A truly meaningful prescription drug program should provide a benefit that seniors can understand and count on, and reduce the cost of these drugs. To help lower the cost of prescription drugs, Senator Obama has supported efforts to allow American seniors to purchase prescription drugs in Canada and bring them back to the U.S. He also has supported giving Medicare the ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
What issues have come up surrounding this issue?
SAFETY CONCERNS RELATING TO IMPORTATION
FDA remains concerned about the public health implications of unapproved prescription drugs from entities seeking to profit by getting around U.S. legal standards for drug safety and effectiveness. Many drugs obtained from foreign sources that either purport to be or appear to be the same as U.S.-approved prescription drugs are, in fact, of unknown quality. Consumers are exposed to a number of potential risks when they purchase drugs from foreign sources or from sources that are not operated by pharmacies properly licensed under state pharmacy laws. These outlets may dispense expired, subpotent, contaminated or counterfeit product, the wrong or a contraindicated product, an incorrect dose, or medication unaccompanied by adequate directions for use. The labeling of the drug may not be in English and therefore important information regarding dosage and side effects may not be available to the consumer. The drugs may not have been packaged and stored under appropriate conditions to prevent against degradation, and there is no assurance that these products were manufactured under current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) standards. When consumers take such medications, they face risks of dangerous drug interactions and/or of suffering adverse events, some of which can be life threatening. More commonly, if the drugs are subpotent or ineffective, they may suffer complications from the illnesses that their prescriptions were intended to treat, without ever knowing the true cause.
RECENT COUNTERFEIT AND MISBRANDING CASES
On June 24, 2004, FDA’s OCI received a report of counterfeit Viagra from Pfizer after the company confirmed that the product had been dispensed by two pharmacies in California. Pfizer had received two complaints of suspicious Viagra from two different pharmacies in California and after testing was able to confirm that both the product and the packaging were counterfeit.
INTERNET DRUG SALES
With greater and greater frequency, consumers are using the Internet to access health related information and products. Sales of consumer products over the Internet have grown rapidly, including the sale of drugs. The growth in online drug sales by reputable pharmacies has provided significant benefits to consumers. Many managed health care organizations are searching for ways to achieve cost savings and are turning to online prescription plans as a means of providing quality service at a lower cost.
A number of online drug websites, however, present risks to purchasers and unique challenges to regulators, law enforcement officials and policy makers. FDA is concerned about the public health implications of unlawful Internet drug sales, and we are responding to these concerns as we develop and implement risk-based strategies to protect the public health. FDA monitors the Internet to evaluate the quality of products and information being offered, and we encourage consumers to remain vigilant about their purchases and to rely on reputable Internet sites. But we remain concerned about consumers directly purchasing foreign unapproved drugs through the Internet, because
Of the Agency’s continued concerns that there is not sufficient information or means to assure that these products are as safe and effective as products sold within the U.S. Our challenge is to make sure that the protection for consumers who purchase prescription drugs in cyberspace is just as strong as the protection consumers enjoy when they purchase drugs at their corner pharmacy.
Prescription drug sales over the Internet can provide tremendous benefits to consumers. These benefits include:
Access to drugs for the disabled or otherwise homebound, for which a trip to the pharmacy can be difficult;
The convenience of shopping 24 hours a day; and a wide selection of pharmaceutical products;
Privacy for those who don’t want to discuss their medical needs in a public place.
USE OF THE INTERNET TO BYPASS REGULATION
The unique qualities of the Internet, including its broad reach, relative anonymity, and ease of creating new or removing old websites, pose new challenges for the enforcement of the FD&C Act and state laws regulating the practice of medicine and the practice of pharmacy. FDA has found that many Internet sites are actually comprised of multiple related sites and links, thereby making investigations much more complex and resource intensive. The global nature of the Internet creates special problems for effective law enforcement. Different approaches to drug approval and marketing in foreign countries further complicate law enforcement issues for U.S. officials. FDA and other U.S. government agencies must try to work with foreign governments to share information and to develop mechanisms for cooperative law enforcement, but this is a difficult task.
STATE REGULATION OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY
The states have enacted laws regulating the practice of pharmacy and the practice of medicine to protect patients from harm resulting from the use of unsafe drugs, and the improper practice of medicine and pharmacy. Under many of these laws, to receive a prescription drug, a licensed health care practitioner who determines the appropriate treatment and issues a prescription for an FDA-approved drug generally must examine a patient. The prescription may also authorize refills. The patient then has the prescription filled by a registered pharmacist working in a licensed pharmacy that meets state standards.
STOREFRONT PHARMACIES
FDA has taken recent actions against so-called “storefront pharmacies,” which are generally walk-in businesses, sometimes associated with Internet sites, which assist U.S. consumers in ordering prescription drugs from Canadian or other foreign pharmacies and facilitate the filling of these orders. FDA is concerned about these domestic operations that are not properly licensed under state pharmacy laws, and expose consumers to a number of potential risks. As of November 2003, twenty-two states have taken, or are prepared to take, regulatory actions against storefront pharmacies that facilitate illegal imports of prescription drugs from Canada.
WILL CONGRESS CONTAIN MEDICARE’S EXPLODING COSTS?
Although Medicare does have some components of cost control, it is unclear how the public can or will shoulder the burden of the coming increases in Medicare spending.
5. What is President Barack Obama's stance on treatment of AID's?
BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO COMBAT GLOBAL HIV/AIDS
There are an estimated 33 million people across the planet living with HIV/AIDS, including more than 1 million people in the U.S. Nearly 6,000 people die every day of AIDS. Despite advances in knowledge about HIV and effective treatment options, the rate of HIV infections has not fallen, and, in fact, is rising dramatically in certain racial and ethnic groups. Barack Obama believes that we must do more to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. In 2006, Obama traveled to Kenya and, along with his wife Michelle, took an HIV/AIDS test to encourage African men and women to be tested for the disease. Obama
Believes in working across party lines to combat this epidemic and has worked in both the Illinois and U.S. Senate to increase awareness and to promote greater investment for HIV/AIDS in America and abroad. As president, Obama will continue to be a global leader in the fight against AIDS.
HIV/AIDS IN AMERICA
Implement a National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Obama has pledged that, in the first year of his presidency, he will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIVrelated health disparities. His strategy will include measurable goals, timelines and accountability mechanisms. Obama passed legislation in Illinois to require public service announcements promoting HIV/AIDS screening. As president, Obama will continue to increase awareness of the disease.
Bring Medicaid Coverage to Low-Income, HIV-Positive Americans: Obama is a cosponsor of the Early Treatment for HIV Act, which would help provide Medicaid coverage to more low-income, HIV-positive Americans. The bill would also increase the number of people who receive the medications necessary to treat HIV infections.
Fight Disparities in Minority Communities: HIV/AIDS has hit some communities harder than others. For example, while African Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they make up 49 percent of new HIV/AIDS cases. AIDS is the leading cause of death of African American women aged 25-34, and the third leading cause of death of African American men in the same age group. In 2005, 64 percent of women living with HIV/AIDS were black. In our nation’s capital alone, African Americans account for 81 percent of new reports of HIV cases and about 86 percent of people with AIDS. Barack Obama is committed to targeting resources to promote innovative HIV/AIDS testing initiatives in minority communities and partnering with a
Wide-range of community leaders from churches to community organizations. But we must also tackle the scourge of poverty where HIV and AIDS proliferate. Obama will continue to fight poverty and homelessness, key drivers of this epidemic. We need to better target care for people in communities of color, where the disease is moving most quickly. Obama will tackle the root causes of health disparities by addressing differences in access to health insurance coverage and promoting prevention and public health, both of which play a major role in addressing disparities. He will also challenge the medical system to eliminate inequities in health care through quality measurement and reporting, implementation of effective interventions such as
Patient navigation programs and diversification of the health workforce.
Improve Quality of Life for Those Living with HIV/AIDS: Obama is a strong supporter of the Ryan White Care Act (RWCA), which provides critical access to life-saving treatment and care for over half a million low-income Americans with HIV/AIDS. The RWCA is one of the largest sources of federal funds for primary health care and support services for patients with HIV/AIDS. The bill was named after Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose courageous struggle with HIV/AIDS helped educate the nation. Throughout the recent reauthorization of the RWCA, Obama worked closely with RWCA service providers, the Chicago Department
Of Public Health, and the Illinois Department of Public Health to analyze and find ways to improve the program for Illinois and for the nation. Obama will continue to protect the multifaceted care upon which RWCA beneficiaries depend.
Promote AIDS Prevention: In addition to assuring access to treatment, Obama believes we need to increase the focus on preventing new infections. We cannot keep pace with treatment needs if we don’t also focus on prevention. This means pursuing a strategy that relies on sound science and builds on what works. Obama supports comprehensive sex education that is age-appropriate. He supports increasing federal appropriations for science-based HIV prevention programs. Obama supports the JUSTICE Act, which would prevent transmission of HIV within the incarcerated population. He also supports legislation that would lift the ban on federal
Funding for needle exchange as a strategy to reduce HIV transmission among injection drug users and their partners and children.
Assure Adequate and Safe Housing for Those Living With HIV: Obama supports increased funding for Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) and other pertinent housing programs. These programs aim to assure that adequate and safe housing is available for all disabled and low-income people with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
Expand Funding for Research: Barack Obama will expand funding for research, especially for prevention options including a vaccine and microbicides. Microbicides are a class of products currently under development that women apply topically to prevent transmission of HIV and other infections. Obama led an effort with Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and others to introduce the Microbicide Development Act, which will accelerate the development of products that empower women in the battle against AIDS. In the United States, the percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS has quadrupled over the last 20 years. Today, women account for more than one quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses.
Expand Access to HIV/AIDS Testing for Pregnant Women: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that voluntary HIV screening be included in the routine panel of prenatal screening tests for all pregnant women. In the Illinois State Senate, Obama sponsored the successful Prenatal HIV Prevention Act, which ensures that every health care professional who provides health care services to a pregnant woman will provide HIV counseling and offer HIV testing. Obama also passed legislation in Illinois requiring that insurance coverage under the Illinois Insurance Code, Health Maintenance Organization Act and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act include coverage of prenatal HIV testing.
GLOBAL HIV/AIDS
Provide Universal Access for the Global Fight against HIV/AIDS: Barack Obama knows that in the 21st century, progress must not just mean political freedom – it must mean freedom from fear and freedom from want. Obama believes that a comprehensive, long-term approach to combating HIV/AIDS is an important investment in our common security and humanity. He has pledged to provide at least $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, including our fair share of the Global Fund, in order to at least double the number of HIV-positive people on treatment and continue to provide treatments to one-third of all those who desperately need them. This funding will allow the U.S. to meet its commitments that have been flat-funded by
The Bush Administration, which includes expanding existing programs to help the millions of children orphaned and made vulnerable by AIDS, increasing the number of health care workers by at least one million, preventing violence against women and girls, and improving health care systems so that U.S. assistance can be fully and effectively utilized.
Reauthorize and Revise PEPFAR: The U.S. has dramatically increased funding for global HIV and AIDS programs through the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), but the program has faced controversy. Obama believes that our first priority should be to reauthorize PEPFAR when it expires in 2008 and rewrite much of the bill to allow best practices – not ideology – to drive funding for HIV/AIDS programs.
Strengthen Health Care Infrastructure: Barack Obama is committed to increasing U.S. investments in the capacity building needed to ensure that poor countries are able to develop the health care infrastructure necessary to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, promote basic health care, reduce the spread of malaria and TB, and prevent and, if necessary, contain the spread of avian flu and other pandemics.
Increase Contribution to the Global Fund: Obama supports increasing U.S. contributions to the Global Fund for AIDS, malaria, and TB so that our assistance is coordinated with aid provided by other governments and private donors and so that the burden on poor countries is reduced.
Increase Access to Affordable Drugs: Barack Obama believes that people in developing countries living withHIV/AIDS should have access to safe, affordable generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS. He will break the stranglehold that a few big drug and insurance companies have on these life-saving drugs. Obama supports the rights of sovereign nations to access quality-assured, low-cost generic medication to meet their pressing public health needs under the WTO’s Declaration on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). He also supports the adoption of humanitarian licensing policies that ensure medications developed with U.S. taxpayer dollars are available off-patent in developing countries.
His health plan will ensure that people living with HIV have access to lifesaving treatment and care.
1.Through Obama plan the typical family will save up to $2,500 a year by providing affordable comprehensive and portable health coverage, moderenizing the U.S Health System and promoting prevention and strengthening public health to prevent and protect against diseases and disasters.
2. Obama concerns is about the elderly and disabled having difficulty enrolling and choosing a plan. He is a cosponsor of the Medicare Informed Choice Act. He continues to fight for medicaid. The unisured are guaranteed eligibility and comprehensive benefits.
3. Obama is against euthanasia and for living wills.
4. Obama introduced a plan saturday that would save americans as much as $283 billion on prescription drug costs. Obama and Biden will allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices for the medicare program. They also support allowing seniors to import safe prescription drugs from overseas.
5.Obama is very active in the fight against Aids. Some of his ideas to help fight against the epidemic include; implementing a national HIV/AIDS strategy, fixing the health care system, bringing medicaid coverage to low income HIV positive americans, fighting disparities in minority communities, improving qualityof life for those living with HIV/AIDS, promoting AIDS prevention, assuring adequate and safe housing for those living with HIV, expanding funding for research and expanding access to HIV/AIDS testing for pregenant women. On the global side he will provide universal access for the Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS, reauthorize and revise PEPFAR, strengthen health care infrastructure, increase contribution to the global fund, increase access to affordable drugs, invest in clean water, close the education deficit, achieve the millennium development goals, invest in comprehensive poverty reduction to fight all diseases and reduce debt of developing nations.
Anthony Okoye
Assessment of the Neurologist System
1. CVA affects the nerve that causes the gag reflex and asking the patient to stick out their tongue and say ah will check to see if the vocal cord is affected by the CVA.
2. You should give the patient some simple and clear instructions and help the patient maintain his/her position while providing emotional support through the lumber puncture procedure.
3. The bleeding is a result of hemorrhage from the insertion site. The nurse should help the patient keep the led straight and apply pressure at the site and notify the physician.
4. The patient may be experiencing expressive aphasia. Give the patient time to try and express them selves. Offer possibilities based on situations if you still cannot understand them.
5. The patient might not have a fully functional gag reflex and is in danger of aspiration. Implement gag precaution such as thickening fluid and pureed food.
Anthony Okoye
Alzheimer’s Disease
1. To prepare a care plan, you should know the extent of her disorientation, her wandering habits, and her degree of agitation and restlessness.
2. To asses the extend of memory loss, you should ask Mrs. Smith simple arithmetic questions like her date of birth, counting backward from 10-1, and the names of her children or grandchildren.
3. Mrs. Smith does not require a restrain which will immobilize her and further compromise her pneumonia. Haldol is an antipsychotic and a sedative which is to be used as a last resort. Restrains also may increase her restlessness and anxiety which may lead to a higher oxygen demand.
4. If Mrs. Smith insists on crawling out of bed, don’t argue with her, help her out of bed, go with her, and guide her back after a few minutes.
5. Offer patient her favorite food. Offer large meals when patient has greatest appetite and serve small meals five to six times a day.
6. Offer another container and assist by holding the container.
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Understanding Medical Surgical Nursing
3rd Edition Linda Williams, Paula Harper
MedSurg Notes
2nd Edition Tracy Hopkins, Ehren Myers
Nursing Drug Handbook 2008
Saunders Elsevier
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