Healthcare

Some of the biggest expenditures will go directly to the states, with $90 billion going to increase the federal share of Medicaid payments.
 * **Health Care** ||
 * $39 billion || Subsidies to health insurance for unemployed; providing coverage through Medicaid ||
 * $90 billion || Help to states with Medicaid ||
 * $20 billion || Modernization of health-information technology systems ||
 * $4 billion || Preventative care ||

__Definitions__

Med⋅i⋅caid- a U.S. government program, financed by federal, state, and local funds, of hospitalization and medical insurance for persons of all ages within certain income limits.

Med⋅i⋅care- a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.

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-Nick Olson

How does the stimulus plan incorporate the aspect of healthcare?

Here is an overview of what The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is supposed to do in regards to health care.



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-Kyle Darbonne Sources: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99916019 http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/anthony/2009/02/impact_of_stimulus_on_healthcare_innovation.html
 * $17 Billion of this package is designated to mandate transition from paper medical records over to electronic or EMR (Electronic Medical Records). The arguments for this big portion of money is that it will create upwards of 200,000 jobs (training health personnel and running health systems). That number doesn't include the jobs it would create for software companies and hardware plus the increasing amount of Internet companies that would allow people to store their own records online. The main argument against this is the fact that the jobs won't come soon enough since there will be a two-year training period minimum and some experts believe that it could take up to five years. A second benefit is that it would eliminate "redundant" health care which as Dr. Paul Tang, chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, states, is the cause of $4.5 Billion yearly just in Massachusetts because of repeat MRIs and other such tests. With these new programs, doctors won't need to send patients for a second MRI if they don't have the results with them because they will be able to look up any results wherever they are. The programs can also keep doctors from automatically prescribing a drug that could cause problems with the patient.

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 * The bulk of the money is going to reserach which medical treatments work and which ones don't. Sceince will be the prime decider in the ones that work, not what is precedent. As well as the US converting all medical records to computers and making the whole syestem electronic to avoid potential errors in the future, which would save money, and lives, in the long run.
 * The new medical system with not allow the profit from marketing patient records by doctors,hospitals,etc. The House is more for the plan and the Senate needs more encouragement.
 * The stimulus funding is for clinical studies.
 * The bill directly impacts the profit made by sellers.
 * Obama wants increasing coverage for all Americans.
 * COBRA extensions will be made to kepp more people insured. They would pay 65% of the premium cost and people aged 55 or older, and/or held a current job for 10 or more years will continue under COBRA.
 * $33B is the estimated price for the electronic medical records.
 * Those against the healthcare section say that there will be a hidden tax to cover $65B of the healthcare fundings on other workers' health insurance premiums.
 * The ultimate goal is to reduce waste in the future.
 * The numbers range from $125B to $127B for the Health Care part of the package. And the spending would be over the next two and a half years. $87B will be given to the states to fund Medicaid. COBRA premiums $29B ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Before || Family
 * After || Family
 * Before and After are before and after plan. The numbers are how much a family or a signle person pays a month for health insurance through COBRA.
 * By modernizing US hospitals we will invest in science research, technology, and that will lead to new medical breakthroughs, discoveries, and industries. And hopefully add the the proposed number of $3M jobs.
 * Obama wants the computerization to occur within 5 years and plans to put more money in our pockets from tax breaks to help people to afford health care.

Sources:


 * [|www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/economy/]
 * http;//current.pic.tv/2009/02/13/stimulate-me-a-look-sinside-the-new-stimulus-package///
 * [|www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/what_the_stimulus_package_hold.php]
 * [|www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/02/19/the-stimulus-packages-depressing-health-care-provisions/]
 * [|www.healthcareitnews.com/news/obama-pushes-stimulus-package-defends-healthcare-i]
 * http:newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2009/02/health-care-and-the-economic-stimulus-package.html
 * [|www.govhealthit.com/Articles/2008/2008/12/Obama-adds-health-IT-to-economic-stimulus-package.aspx]

-Kamie