Obama's health care reform will make health care more accessible and more affordable and make insurers more accountable, as well as expand health care coverage to every American and make the health care system sustainable by stabilizing family budgets, the economy and the Federal budget.

The cost of Obama's overall health care bill will cost approximately $940 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The bill will include that by the year 2014 there will be significant health access reforms. Insurers will be prohibited from denying coverage to people with medical problems of charging them more money (CBS 2010).

While these numbers do sound manageable, Congress has not responded kindly to Obama's health care reform ideas. When Obama has even mentioned the idea of health care for illegal immigrants, the president was rudely interrupted by a heckler yelling, "you lie" ( ). Under Obama's proposal of health care reform, all Americans will have health insurance and the requirements will be similar to the rules that we have for mandatory auto insurance. It would also order business to, 1) offer health care coverage to employees or contribute to covering their costs of obtaining coverage (CNN 2010).

While Congress may not be confident in Obama's health care reform, Americans, in general, are still confident. Although, it should be noted, that Americans have lost a significant amount of confidence in the healthcare ideas of Obama and the rest of the democrats that are in Congress. What is obvious is that the debate of health care has raised very sensitive issues in all of America. Even members of Congress have witnessed hate crimes against them (McGowan 2010).

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Insurance will be, overall, more affordable, a new competitive health insurance market will give millions of Americans the very exact same choices of insurance that members of Congress will have. It will bring greater responsibility and accountability to health care by providing rules in order to keep premiums down and prohibit insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
Obama's reform bill is just the very first step in healthcare reform in the United States. If the Republicans get control of Congress in November, however, there is not saying what the future of healthcare reform is. If Republicans get control, what is to stop them from vetoing any advances that Obama makes in terms of healthcare reform?

But when, eventually, national healthcare reform is passed, everyone will be happy and they will breathe a sigh of relief -- and then they will most likely begin to focus on other issues in the world.

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