Health News: HHS “Sebelius Promoted Obama Health Insurance Plan
Omaha, Neb. (AP) – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday that Americans need a new government under the guarantee of insurance choice and competition – particularly in rural areas of America.
“The fact that the president believes it is important to have a choice and competition,” Sebelius said at a roundtable interview in Omaha, where they were the outlet of President Barack Obama, the maintenance of Health.
Their appearance is part of a dynamic new impetus to the administration of a major state support for the activities of Congress at the time of Obama to sign the law in the fall.
Obama, the same message in the center of voters on Thursday during a meeting at City of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Sebelius said, I think, fundamentally agree that the nation is the health care system is broken, but there is less agreement on what should be done to solve this problem.
The new version of the plan – support Obama, but against the Republicans – it is possible that a single piece of sweeping health care legislation in a Congress, but it is considered as a serious obstacle.
Sebelius said that in rural areas – in the Nebraska sand hills of sparsely populated, for example – affordable private plan May not be available. Therefore, if the government supported the plan could play an important role, “she says.
Republicans believe that the new government-funded insurance for private insurance companies into bankruptcy. Sebelius said the government’s plan will not replace private insurance. Sebelius declared a state plan to compete with private insurance, but not replace it.
Sebelius said she met Nebraskans that the plan for health reform should be much broader than simply a problem with health insurance, because the current system is not a good job, disease prevention and management the health and well-being of Americans.
Obama is the pressure Congress to quickly on legislation to achieve its objectives taming spiral and improve health coverage to 50 million Americans who do not have now.