{"id":34451,"date":"2021-05-20T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=34451"},"modified":"2021-05-21T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:02:03","slug":"obama-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/obama-healthcare-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Healthcare Reform Is First on the Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What was the Obama healthcare reform bill? Did the bill pass?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many other liberals, Obama believed in healthcare reform. But the Obama healthcare reform bill wasn’t easy to pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the Obama healthcare reform bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Obama and the Fight for Universal Healthcare<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So far, we\u2019ve explored the Obama administration\u2019s efforts to rescue the domestic and global economy, refocus America\u2019s commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, and set a new course in U.S. foreign policy. But for Obama, healthcare reform was more important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So while all of these developments were taking place, the administration was also gearing up for the battle to pass what would become its signature domestic policy achievement\u2014the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/a>, commonly known as Obamacare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unfinished Work of Liberalism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The push to bring universal health care to the United States was the great unfinished work of American liberalism. <\/strong>Every Democratic president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt had tried and failed to enact some version of universal health care, with the most high-profile defeat being President Bill Clinton\u2019s health care proposal in 1994 (derisively labeled \u201cHillarycare\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Particularly galling to progressives like Obama was the fact that every other <\/em>industrialized country had long since achieved some version of universal coverage. In the U.S., however, conservatives and their allies in the medical industry had always succeeded in blocking it, usually by stoking fear about a \u201cgovernment takeover\u201d of health care and inveighing against the perils of \u201csocialized medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the U.S. had developed a private, employer-based model of coverage, in which health insurance was provided to workers and their families by employers. Programs like Medicare (a federal program providing single-payer coverage for seniors) and Medicaid (a joint state-federal program providing coverage for people with low incomes) filled in some of the gaps left by the employer-based system, but fell far short of providing universal coverage\u2014with 43 million Americans uninsured by the time Obama took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Failing Health Care System<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By 2009, there was widespread agreement that the American health care<\/a> system was in dire need of reform. <\/strong>Medical specialization<\/a>, breakthroughs, and innovation could deliver great health benefits, but also dramatically drove up the cost of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the complex nature of health care and the vast knowledge disparity between the average patient and the medical providers, patients increasingly found themselves at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies, insurance carriers, device makers, and hospital networks, with no effective way to make informed health care spending decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, America\u2019s vast uninsured population drove up health care costs even for those who did <\/em>have insurance. This was because the uninsured were more likely to wait until they were extremely ill (and thus, more expensive to treat) before seeking treatment at hospital emergency rooms\u2014with for-profit hospitals making up the loss by overcharging their insured patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps the most morally indefensible features of the system were the practices of the big insurance companies to deny coverage to their customers<\/strong>\u2014because actually paying <\/em>for treatment cut into their bottom lines. Thus, insurers forced upon their customers high-deductible plans, expensive co-pays, and lifetime caps on coverage, while totally denying coverage to those with \u201cpre-existing conditions,\u201d all in an effort to contain costs and maximize profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Political Danger of Healthcare Reform<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But passing Obama healthcare reform wasn’t easy. Despite the consensus on the failures of the health care system, there was great political risk for the Obama administration in attempting to reform it. Although tens of millions remained uninsured, most people did <\/em>have insurance, liked <\/em>their insurance and their doctor, distrusted anything <\/em>that came out of Washington, feared losing what they already had, and didn\u2019t want their tax dollars going to pay others\u2019 <\/em>coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, reform would be opposed tooth-and-nail by the GOP, as well as the many wealthy and powerful interests that benefited <\/em>from the system as it was. Rahm Emanuel and other veterans of the failed 1994 Clinton health care fight grimly recalled the steep political price the Democratic Party had paid in the midterm elections that year\u2014losing 54 House seats and losing both the House and Senate. They warned Obama that a failed bill could kill his presidency entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Moral Issue<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

While Obama was obviously concerned about the politics, health care was a deeply moral\u2014and profoundly personal\u2014issue for him. <\/strong>For Obama, healthcare reform was essential. On the campaign trail, he\u2019d spoken with countless Americans who told him horror stories about paying astronomical hospital bills and suffering medical-related bankruptcies. Many told him that they had even chosen to forgo urgently needed care altogether because they couldn\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearing these stories, he shuddered to think about what might have happened to Malia and Sasha if they hadn\u2019t had regular access to a pediatrician. He also recalled how his own mother had delayed her cancer treatments many times during the course of her illness, for fear of leaving her survivors with high medical debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As president, Obama believed he had a moral obligation to put an end to the needless, wasteful suffering Americans had been forced to endure under a failing health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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