Obama care Gets the Job done after 50 Years of Healthcare Debacle

Under today’s health care system in the United States, thousands of people die each year because they delay seeking care they can not afford.

State Medicaid directors have developed a model of home and community-based care that makes independent living possible, serving as a model for the nation’s health care system. Joining the event with the Sen. However, the fact remains that if states were to expand Medicaid program, then would translate to more benefits for low-income populations.

At the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a new law creating Medicare and Medicaid.

“Per-capita spending and medical inflation are all at historically very modest levels”, said Andy Slavitt, the official in President Barack Obama’s administration who oversees the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as implementation of the law.

Ironically, many of those that opposed the 2009 federal Health Care initiative (Obamacare) supposedly because of changes it made to the Medicare program keep supporting efforts to change Medicare from its successful formula to a privatized voucher enterprise to completely phase it out.

With 75 percent of all spending on health care due to chronic diseases, we need to do more to identify risk and to intervene early to save lives and to save dollars.

In Tennessee, there are more than 1.2 million people on federally funded Medicare, while an additional 900,000 people receive prescription drug coverage in addition to being enrolled in a part of the program.

That compares with 42 percent satisfaction from people with employer-sponsored plans, 48 percent with Medicaid and 58 percent with Medicare. For 50 years, these two programs have been protecting the health and well-being of millions of American families, saving lives and improving the economic security of our nation.

There was no cake, but Medicare’s 50th birthday was serenaded by a few dozen Central New Yorkers in downtown Syracuse Thursday.

Health care access and affordability are the major domestic political and social issues of our time. Calls for “Medicare for all!” may resound as loudly as they did during the health care reform debate.

Republican rhetoric against Medicare has soften slightly in 50 years, but they’ve never stopped trying to do away with the program. By shifting payment and delivery strategies, we can encourage primary care teams, incentivize care coordination and continuity of care, and require attention to providing care to people, over time.