Law of the American health-care project

Of the financial cost of health care project the new U.S. for more than nine billion dollars, with reference to
That the vote held on 21 March 2010 on the draft law came on the first two belong to the major items approved by the Senate and therefore there is no longer any obstacle to the signing by President Barack Obama.

The second edition of the vote on the amendments were received on the draft law, which must be approved by the Senate and if approved, the amendments give the President the opportunity to sign the bill into law, otherwise the process will revert back to the House of Representatives.

Under the draft resolution to conduct reforms in the health insurance market to prevent insurance companies from excluding people with prior medical conditions or cancellation of random insurance cards to persons who are injured - after access to insurance services - disease, costing the company that provides insurance service huge amounts of money.

Benefits and conditions
The bill provides that the application of the principle of exchange of insurance, which will allow small businesses and individuals not covered by health insurance scheme that provided by companies or government institutions for their employees, have access to health insurance benefits provided to achieve the beneficiaries of this feature is the minimum necessary requirements.

The project includes a provision for the children to benefit from health insurance card family until the age of twenty-sixth contrary to what was in effect in the former regime.

The law provides that it is obligatory for every U.S. citizen on the card under penalty of a fine of up to 2.5% of the income to be applied to this item by the year 2016.

The law imposes a fine of thousand dollars for each employee (full-time) on the company or the employer does not provide that service health insurance, and that for companies with more than fifty staff members.

Government support
The other hand, the bill provides service subsidies to help the families - that do not exceed the annual income of 88 thousand dollars - to pay fees to buy insurance card with the mention of the subsequent amendments to provide government support to other segments in a later period.

From this standpoint will be providing health insurance program, both governmental "Medicare and Medicaid" for each person shall receive an income equivalent to a rate of 133% of the poverty line by ten thousand dollars per capita and 22 thousand and fifty dollars for families consisting of four persons.

Separated by a special paragraph of the draft resolution relating to the modifications on the incomes of health insurance and a copy included in the amendments that were submitted to the Senate for ratification in the coming days.

Fees and taxes
This imposes a special part of the tax bill cut by 40% on health insurance plans with high cost of starting from the year 2018 instead of 2013 as scheduled before the first edition of the amendment.

The launch of this plan, health insurance schemes at a cost of ten thousand and two hundred dollars per capita, and 27 thousand five hundred dollars per family, with the lifting of the ceiling for similar insurance plans, including women and older employees and retirees or working in hazardous areas.

In the context of parallel, draft law would impose a tax increase on the salary income - taxable at all - to provide the resources necessary to support the government health insurance, known as "Medicare" on the elderly and people with special needs from 1.44% to 2.5% for individuals whose income is the annual more than two hundred thousand dollars and for a couple working together, which exceeds their income threshold to $ 250 thousand annually.

High-income
The amendments include the imposition of the tax of 3.8% on investment income to high-income groups, and collect fees on manufacturers of medical devices, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, that is the collection of these fees in a subsequent period.

It is expected to freeze the draft resolution - after the adoption of the amendments in the Senate - payments of health insurance companies that provide medical care for cardholders, "Medicare," the government in 2011, and that is the devaluation of the support provided to these companies as of 2012.

The Law would gradually bridge the gap insurance for insurance medical for the beneficiaries of the health care program Medicare by the year 2020, to obtain citizens eligible to take advantage of this item on the difference of insurance to recover the equivalent of $ 250 of the value of prescription drug during the current year to be lifted ratio to 50% of the value of the prescription the next year.abuiyad