The Obama Healthcare Reforms

Obama Backs Healthcare Reform

This website is supportive of Obama's healthcare reforms, and suggests that all American people having access to some form of healthcare is a good thing. It helps to put some figures and facts forward, arguing that the healthcare reforms would be beneficial to the American public and lower the average person's cost of healthcare. It also discusses some of the other factors involved, for example, Obama's plan for business emplyers to offer all their staff health cover as standard. It also praises Obama's appointment of Tom Daschle as the leader of the White House Office of Health Reform.


This article from the Washington Post suggests that while healthcare reform in general isn't a bad thing, the way that Obama has planned to do it is not the right way forward. The author of this article argues that the aims of the plan are not realistic, and it will not succeed. He believes that increased taxing on the high-income band of people would significantly change the behaviour of these individuals so that their taxable income would shrink, thus resulting in a decrease of revenue for the Government. This means that the increased cost would then pass to the middle-class.

He also argues that if the proposed plan goes forward, then research into medical science will be discouraged because it would mean a higher cost for the Government, and while everybody may want healthcare to be cheaper, I'm sure everybody also wants healthcare to carry on becoming more and more technologically advanced.