Obama calls for overhaul of U.S. health care system

Obama has called for the health care reform. Obama has recently been giving a speech where he is deeply promoting the forward direction of Universal Health care. My question for Obama "is this the best way?" Is America ready for a system of this type? Another big thing is that why did Obama decide to go with health care? He said that it was the way that America would be able to stimulate the economy and be able to create a massive amount of jobs for the economic rut that we are in. Mr.Obama even had Ted Kennedy a victim suffering from brain cancer come by and spoke and helped to strengthen the point that there was the great need for medical reform. Obama is also putting aside $634 billion for health-care reserve fund for the next 10 years to help achieve the goal of universal coverage. He also would require senior citizens making more than $170,000 annually to pay a greater share of their prescription drug costs under Medicare.
Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said that the costs for medicare are "exploding" that people are getting less and less money and yet they continue to see their premiums go higher and higher. As director of the White House Office on Health Reform,Nancy-Ann DeParle, the new health czar, will work with Kansas governor Sebelius as the president's point person coordinating outreach to Congress on health care issues.The administration also is planning to hold five regional health care summits in the weeks ahead to help sell Obama's health care plan. There is a drive to a national conversation regarding Health care.
I believe that times are going to get worse and worse. Who knows just how bad the economy will become i think all we have to do is wait and see. There is no money anywhere and people are dropping more and more into debt. Especially within America. Next month there will be an increase on the taxes moving from 8.25% to a 9.25%. Just how bad can it be? I can only hope that President Obama's plans are for the better. With his dedicated plan to push for medicare to become universal and in the process help to stimulate the economy and also create millions of new jobs. One can only hope that this plan will work because if it doesn't end up working just how bad will the American people have to pay for it?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/05/health.care.summit/index.html