obama introduced his version of health reform

President Barack Obama, Monday introduced, his own version of the bill on health reform. The reform plan developed by the presidential administration, was published on the website of the White House on the eve of a meeting between the president and leaders of the Republican Party. As expected, the central theme of the meeting will be just health care reform, has been criticized by Republicans.
Obama’s proposed plan is a generalized and revised version of two other bills previously approved by both houses of U.S. Congress. The New York Times notes that in general in terms of Obama prevails “Senate” option, while the proposal from the version the House of Representatives, it presents less.

Analysts call the plan of Obama’s compromise that does not contain any new and radical ideas, as compared with his earlier initiatives. For example, its implementation would cost the U.S. budget to 950 billion dollars over 10 years. The bill, approved by the Senate, would require 871 billion dollars, while a version lower house – a little more than a trillion. According to the reform options developed by Obama, by 2019 health insurance will receive 31 million Americans who do not have it at the moment. Furthermore, additional benefits of health will receive the middle class and small businesses.

Option Obama bypassed the number of contentious points that triggered the debate between Democrats and Republicans. In particular, the plan does not mention Obama is supported by many and criticized by the initiative of creating a state health insurance system that would provide an alternative to existing private insurers. Obama left unattended and subject allocation of federal funds for operations on abortion.

Republicans critical of the president met with the proposed version of health reform. In response, the White House, Robert Gibbs advised the Republicans to develop concrete proposals and speak with them before the President.

The need to develop a single version of health reform arose after the end of 2009, both houses of Congress passed two different versions of the bill, said AFP. The adoption of these bills was preceded by months of negotiations, and the administration of President Obama has repeatedly been criticized for its hesitant