Healthcare is one of the most important issues under
consideration by the Oboma administration. There are
several versions of proposed legislation in the House and
Senate.
This site provides the governments analysis of
the 4 problems as they see them and their solutions for you to
check our and make up your own mind.
1. How Health Insurance Reform will Help
America's Older and Senior Women.
2. Protecting Coverage and Strengthening
Medicare.
3. Out-of-Pocket Expenses: Americans Shoulder the
Burden of Growing Health Care Costs.
4. HITECH priority grant programs
The first two HITECH priority grant programs
funded through the Recovery act support national implementation
of electronic health records (EHRs) initiative.
Approximately $598 million is being made
available through the Health Information Technology Extension
Program (Extension Program), to ensure that comprehensive
support is available to health technology users.
Under the State Health Information Exchange
Cooperative Agreement Program $564 million will be awarded to
support efforts to achieve widespread and sustainable health
information exchange (HIE) within and among States through the
meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Records.