USD 940.000.000

Finalmente, Obama conseguiu aprovar no Congresso a reforma do sistema de saúde americano, representando um custo de USD 940.000.000 e deixando de fora, apesar de tudo, alguns milhões de pessoas.
O método utilizado, longe de ser consensual, vai provocar batalhas legais que prometem durar. Dizem os que estão contra que obrigar os cidadãos a comprar um seguro de saúde é inconstitucional. Eu também acho, mas não percebo nada disso.

De qualquer maneira, aqui fica um resumo:

- Cost: $940bn over 10 years; would reduce deficit by $143bn

- Coverage: Expanded to 32m currently uninsured Americans

- Medicare: Prescription drug coverage gap closed; affected over-65s receive rebate and discount on brand name drugs

- Medicaid: Expanded to include families under 65 with gross income of up to 133% of federal poverty level and childless adults

- Insurance reforms: Insurers can no longer deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions

- Insurance exchanges: Uninsured and self-employed able to purchase insurance through state-based exchanges

- Subsidies: Low-income individuals and families wanting to purchase own health insurance eligible for subsidies

- Individual Mandate: Those not covered by Medicaid or Medicare must be insured or face fine

- High-cost insurance: Employers offering workers pricier plans subject to tax on excess premium


Tirado daqui.