ObamaCare: reform af USA's sundhedssystem

In Marts 2010 president Barack Obama signed the law “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” also called Obamacare. The reform introduces in principle a public health insurance for all. Unlike, for example, in England, however the public health insurance is still predominantly based on private health insurance but citizens who cannot pay themselves can get help from the public to fund there’s health insurance. The health system in the United States is still not fully funded via the tax.

ObamaCare was adopted in 2010 and represents the most important healthcare reform in the United States since Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in 1965. According to the law, hospitals and doctors must commit themselves financially, technologically and clinically to creating a better health system, lower costs and increase dissemination. In other words, ObamaCare will create a foundation for a better health system. At the same time, ObamaCare makes it compulsory for all to take out sickness insurance, as well as requiring insurance companies to offer all applicants a statutory minimum coverage for the same insurance premium regardless of existing illnesses and regardless of gender. However, the reform is not a real reform, but rather an extension of the existing healthcare system (Medicaid) by making it mandatory for citizens to take out private health insurance and give those who can´t afford a public support, to fund it. ObamaCare, will with other words, give most of the millions of Americans, without a health insurance with basic cover. And thus the president has introduced the health insurance, which the Americans with Obama's words have "talked about for 100 years".