The project of law of the president was validated by the House of Representatives. If the Senate done all the same, it could allow 36 millions of Americans to offer itself a cover health.
The American House of Representatives adopted Saturday evening – by a squeezed vote – the plan of reformation of the cover electronic health records to the United States, offering to Barack Obama a first victory to the Congress on this ambitious political project. The president as soon as greeted the vote “historic” Room and declared itself “absolutely confiding” on the coming from a next ballot to the Senate, hoping next to promulgate the law “of here the end of the year”.
The elected officials of the lower house approved the text (of about 2,000 pages) by 220 voices against 215, to the coming from 12 hours of debate. Only a republican voted in favor of this project of law. The president had moved himself in person Saturday in day environment to urge the representatives, in a speech of about thirty minutes, to vote for his reformation, the an of its promises of country.
This project gives you “the check of your EHR”
In front of the parliamentary, the president of the Room, Nancy Pelosi, declared while addressing to itself the Americans: “This law project gives you, to you and to your doctor, the check of your health, the insurance companies will not be located more in breadth of the way”. This reformation is awaited since about one hundred years, underlined the president, that quoted the first initiatives of the president Theodore Roosevelt.
Sunday, the president Barack Obama urged Sunday the Senate to approve to his turn the reformation. Greeting “a courageous vote from numerous members of the Congress”, Obama considered that the United States are henceforth “closer than never of the most vast reformation of the disease insurance” than the country never knew. “It falls henceforth to the Senate to transform the essay in the name of the American people.”
This plan, of a net cost closely of 900 billion dollars on 10 years (2010-2019), would do to save 129 billions on the same period, according to the Office of the budget of the Congress (CBO). It would allow 36 millions of Americans that not some have to offer itself a cover health. Altogether, 96% of Americans would be covered in the framework of the plan democrat, that tries to do to lower the costs of health.
This plan foresees besides the creation of a system of disease insurance managed by the government that must be put in competition with the private companies.
But The text should meet more resistance to the Senate, where the boss of the majority Harry Reid gave to understand that the final vote could await 2010.