Is Obama's Health Care Socialized Medicine?

look at whether Barack Obama's health care reform is really a socialist, or qualifies as "socialized medicine ."

I defined socialism in my previous entry. It is, in its simplest definition, a condition in which the government funds the government as the public domain. In the public domain drug could be declared "socialized medicine" (in the same way that public education can be called socialized education), but it raises the question of whether or not Obama's health care reform socialism.

Let's have a quick look, shall we?

Here's a brief summary of the of changes in health care reform will offer (I finally is my research):

• pre-existing conditions can not be used to exclude individuals from receiving insurance. (This is automatic in children, and will be effective for adults starting in 2014). By 2014, the temporary fund will be set to cover adults with pre-existing conditions.
  
• Small businesses will now get a tax credit (up to 50% premium), to enable them to afford their insurance easier.
  
• for seniors on Medicare to require more than $ 2,700 in spending on now will get more coverage for medications (50% coverage, instead of 0% coverage) - Effective 2011th
  
• Young people can now stay, government regulation, the parents' insurance until age 27 (previously age 24).
  
• "lifetime cap" insurance ("You can never receive more than x dollars in the coverage of us") are prohibited, effective 2014th
  
• prevention (no co-pays), will now be a mandatory part of all insurance plans (effective from 2018.)
  
• "Recissions" are prohibited (in other words, insurance companies can not cut someone to get sick).
  
• process customer complaints, enabling customers to ensure the right to appeal coverage decisions, it added.
  
• tax on indoor tanning (10%) will be dodan.Sredstva will be used to fund programs such as subsidies for small businesses, the treatment of cancer, and so on.
  
• New Insurance Fraud procedures will be added in order to help insurance companies avoid spending wasted on false claims.
  
• Medicare will extend further into rural areas that currently have little or no access to Medicare assistance.
  
• NPO health care companies will have to prove that 85% or more of its spendings goes according to procedures in order to maintain NPO status.
  
• All the restaurants and fast food places will have to provide health care information (calories, fat, carbohydrates and so on).
  
• Government sponsored web site will be created to help consumers find insurance easier.
  
• government-sponsored loans for businesses looking for a new preventive treatment in the field provided.

Now, let's answer some common questions:

• Is this a government sponsored health care options? No, actually. It provides a substitute for private insurance companies. The public plan and the public option were dropped in February. Medicare, the publicly owned and limited insurance option, will expand and get more public funding.
  
• will become a compulsory insurance? Yes, in 2014, with some exceptions for low-income individuals. $ 695 fine will be fine for anyone who chooses not to get any insurance. For companies with fewer than 50 employees, the subsidy option becomes available, but it is still not required to give osiguranje.Još penalties for employers with more than 50 employees who do not want to give an assurance also be put into place.
  
• How is that likely to affect my insurance costs? Well, since you will still be privately owned insurance balancing their costs, they are probably going to increase costs for people who have pre-existing conditions, etc., in order to balance the costs. Those who were excluded were previously excluded to save the company money, so you'll likely see a rate hike (you also save someone from a painful death, so do not feel too bad about it). Insurance companies are also likely to take advantage of compulsory insurance by increasing their rates (sad but true). Also, preventive medicine, which is added to mean reducing the total cost of treatment, and prevention of abuse also means that some costs are reduced. Do not expect to balance the increase in other benefits.
  
• How much is it costing our government? Over ten years? A trillion. As a result, however, due to tax increases, which is part of the bill (for those who make more than $ 200,000 / year) starting in 2013, reducing costs for Medicare and Medicaid, which is part of the law, and taxes on high-end insurance plans for high income households (insurance plans that cost $ 20/year or more) will "get back" the costs of health care for about the 2030th
  
• How are the taxes will be increased? Your? Probably no one. If you make more than $ 200K per year, or if you buy an insurance plan for your family that will cost more than $ 20K a year, you will see the increase, no (or taxes or insurance plan costs). For those making 200K a year, a.09% increase for Medicare begins at 2013.3,8% transfer tax on income for this same group began in 2013 as well. The fee for high-end insurance plans starting in the 2018th
  
• do government subsidies for abortion? Nope. We were going to allow the government subsidizes insurance plans to cover abortion, but now we do not. It was a compromise we struck.
  
• Whoever "wins", as a result of this law? Your average person does. Those more than 200k, or they buy high-end features insurance will pay more. Insurance companies will likely pass on the cost of a standard consumer, which means you pay more but get more coverage and more a guarantee of actual coverage. Frankly, the insurance companies "win" because of the mandatory health clause.
  
• What do you think about Rob all this? It's complicated. Like many things. I do not like it much. I could do another whole entry about it.

Ok, so now we have a pretty clear idea of what health reform is.

Is Obama's health care socialized medicine?

Regulation of the health care industry already existed. They are expanding. This corresponds to a more liberal approach to the philosophy of mixed government in the United States, but it does not mean that socialism by any stretch of the imagination.

subsidy is also not socialism (this is reform, liberal kind of politics). The government should provide insurance as part of the guaranteed rights of citizens (kinda like public education) for it to be socialist.

the most socialist aspects are:

• expansion of Medicare (the public option with the limited use that can be viewed as a uncompetitive socialized option or socialist option that does not interfere with the capitalist option).
  
• Government website (low cost, publicly sponsored website that provides a public service - it can be seen as a small socialist aspect).
  
• government loan to help private firms to find more preventive medicine (this is not true socialist, but the use of public funds to private corporate sponsors - and can be viewed as a nice mixed government paragraph that leans more towards the socialist aspects).

This was not close to a socialist. Sorry:)

there idete.Sažetak 2010 Obama Health Bill, and whether or not it is a Socialist. Enjoy!