Some people think we need the health reform since fewer Americans can afford health insurance so they can' afford good medical care. Right now nearly 46 million have no insurance at all and 25 million are underinsured. One of the reasons people don't have health insurance is because some companies don't offer it anymore because the price is so high. Norway has the next most expensive health care plan and the United States still pays 52% more than Norway.Obama's plan for the health care issue is to create a health care plan that is paid for by the government and is an option for all Americans. It's kind of like how Medicare is now for senior citizens. We're already in a recession so how does Obama plan to pay for this? Obama says that if we got rid of waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid that there would be hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federal savings that could go toward the health care reform.Republicans think that Obama's plan will actually be more costly. Also even though Obama says that if your already getting good insurance from your company that his plan would not change this, but Republicans say that if the reform happens companies will stop buying the private insurance and will get the less expensive but lower quality government plan.
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