What Does The Obama Plan Mean For Private Health Insurance

Affordable Health Insurance has been the promise of democrats for as long as I can remember but I am unsure whether we will really see it or not even with our big with this November.

From The Washington Post

Obama Policymakers Turn to Campaign Tools

Network of Supporters Tapped on Health-Care Issues

By Ceci Connolly

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 4, 2008; Page A01

Barack Obama’s incoming administration has begun to draw on the high-tech organizational tools that helped get him elected to lay the groundwork for an attempt to restructure the U.S. health-care system.

Former senator Thomas A. Daschle, Obama’s point person on health care, launched an effort to create political momentum yesterday in a conference call with 1,000 invited supporters culled from 10,000 who had expressed interest in health issues, promising it would be the first of many opportunities for Americans to weigh in.

The question I keep asking myself is what does the Obama win really mean for health care. As a Medicare and sometimes Medicaid recipient (depending on my wife’s income) I keep wondering whether or not the he will be able to do anything at all about fiscal mess both systems are in. The part of me receiving the benefits wants expansion, but the part of me that knows there is a mess and it needs to be cleaned up is scared to death of the system changing too much.

If not for these plans I have no idea where my Health Insurance would come from. I am not alone in this confusion either. Too many people simply go without because they can’t afford what is available to them. I guess in the end it will be a wait and see effort.