Obama won the battle for major health reform

After a 24-day debate the U.S. Senate approved a proposal from President Barack Obama for a draft reform of health insurance, news agencies reported.
The project Obama is a radical change in the market of health insurance and provides health insurance for tens of millions of Americans, says Reuters.
The votes of all Democrats and two independent senators, a total of 60, provided the most radical changes in health policy than four decades. Voted against the program all 39 Republican senators. In the U.S. Senate has 99 senators.
Months-long disputes among health care reform have become a key legislative issue for Congress and sparked sharp debate in society, which led to a decline in popularity of the president. Health system reform was the most important domestic issue which Obama has announced that it will be resolved during the first year of its mandate.
In January, the Senate and House of Representatives began a new round of negotiations to produce a document which then must be approved as law by both chambers of Congress, says Reuters. On 7 November the House of Representatives vote on a draft version of which is associated with significantly higher costs.
According to the Associated Press that negotiations will be no less difficult than the debate on health reform in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The package of measures totaling 871 billion dollars in ten years provides health insurance to be made available for the poorer segments of American society. Funds to cover a large number of insurance will come from grants and by creating a specific nature „exchanges“ which will be able to buy cheaper health insurance.
In the future, almost all Americans will be required to have health insurance. Insurance companies are forbidden to deny insurance to individuals who are ill at the time of conclusion of a health insurance policy. And prohibits the use of higher contributions, determined on the basis of sex or health history.
Recent reforms in the health insurance system in the United States were made in the 60 years of the last century, when both were set up insurance entities Midikear Medikeyd and oriented according to poor and elderly, says DPA.

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