Washington, DC promotes health care reform in the United States.

Since taking office on June 20, 2009, Obama has been promoting health care reform. Obama's medical reform journey is extremely difficult because of different opinions of various interest groups in the United States.

On March 5, 2009, Obama held a health care reform conference at the White House. In his live TV speech, he said that the increasing medical expenses have threatened the quality of life of the American people and the fundamental foundation of the American economy, and he is determined to launch a comprehensive reform plan for the American medical care system within this year.

On June 15, 2009, Reuters reported that Obama warned doctors that the American health care system was a time bomb and urged them to support their own reforms, including the public insurance plan that many doctors were skeptical about.

On June 17, 2009, the US Senate and House of Representatives began to formally discuss the medical reform plan.

On July 8, 2009, the American government and American hospital representatives reached an important agreement on medical reform. According to the agreement, the hospital will give up government grants and subsidies totaling 654.38+05.5 billion dollars in the next few years to pay part of the cost of the medical reform plan. At the same time, the hospital will also get some benefits from the medical reform plan.

On August 14, 2009, Obama went to Montana in the west to dispel doubts and doubts, but he couldn't help but get furious with the American media and accused them of paying too much attention to the public's protests against medical reform.

On September 9, 2009, at the joint meeting of the two houses of Congress, Obama expounded the three goals of medical reform: to provide better protection for existing insurance companies; Provide viable options for people without insurance; Alleviate the increase in expenditure brought by medical insurance to families, enterprises and governments.

On September 10, 2009, when Obama met with the representatives of American Nurses Association in the White House Administration Building in Washington, DC, he once again urged to promote the reform of the health care system and expand the coverage of medical insurance.

On September 12, 2009, thousands of Americans gathered in national mall, DC, to hold a large-scale demonstration to protest President Obama's health care reform plan and other policies, and asked Congress under the control of the Democratic Party to promise to effectively control government spending. This time, the demonstrators were mainly composed of members of the American Tea Party. Members of the organization set out from California in early September and held rallies in more than 30 cities across the country to oppose the government's "high spending, high taxes and interference in American families and businesses." Their last stop was Washington, D.C., where they held the largest rally against Obamacare with other conservative organizations.

On June 65438+1October 65438+March 2009, the Senate Finance Committee passed the health care reform bill. This is a compromise of five versions of the bill in Congress, which basically conforms to the principle of medical reform established by Obama. On June 29th, 2009, Speaker of the House of Representatives nancy pelosi (Democratic Party) held a press conference on Capitol Hill, announcing the introduction of a unified version of the health care reform bill, including the controversial establishment of public insurance institutions.

On June 7, 2009, the House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill with 220 votes in favor and 2 15 votes against. The core of the bill is to create a federally regulated medical insurance market, and the government will set up public insurance institutions to sell medical insurance.

On June 5438+February 65438+February 09, 2009, American Democrats won the support of the 60th federal senator for the health care reform bill, that is, the minimum number of votes required for the bill to be passed by the Senate. Democrats hope to pass the Senate version of the health care reform bill before Christmas; Many * * * and party member vowed to continue to obstruct.

On the morning of February 24th, 2009, the Senate voted to pass the health care reform bill. The core of the bill is to create a federally regulated medical insurance market, and the government will set up a public insurance agency to sell medical insurance. The bill clearly stipulates for the first time that almost all Americans should have medical insurance before 20 14. Due to the failure to obtain unanimous approval from the Senate Democrats, the most concerned "state-owned medical insurance" content in the original version of the bill was deleted. Since then, the two houses have begun consultations on the formation of a unanimous text of the bill. However, due to serious differences, the process of unifying the text of the bill is deadlocked.

20 10 on February 22nd, Obama personally launched the first detailed White House medical reform plan. The plan was based on the Senate version of the bill, and adopted some suggestions from * * * and party member, but it was not approved by * * * and party member.

On February 25th, 20 10, Obama hosted a bipartisan health care reform summit to discuss issues such as controlling medical costs, reforming the medical insurance market, reducing the government budget deficit, and expanding medical insurance coverage, but the two parties failed to reach a compromise.

On March 3, 20 10, Obama announced the final version of the revised health care reform plan and called on Congress to arrange a vote on the health care reform bill in the next few weeks.

On March 20 10, 12 and 18, Obama postponed his visit to Australia and Indonesia twice to supervise the voting process of the health care reform bill in the House of Representatives.

On March15th, 2065438+00, Obama visited Strangsville, Ohio, and delivered a speech, making a final effort to promote medical insurance reform. He called on congressional Democrats to "show courage" and pass the health care bill as soon as possible.

On March 8, 2065438+00, the US Congressional Budget Office announced the budget evaluation results of the final version of the health care reform bill, which created conditions for the House of Representatives to vote on the bill.

On the same day, the Democratic leader of the US House of Representatives announced the final version of the health care reform bill. The final version of the health care reform bill consists of two parts, namely, the health care reform bill passed by the Senate on June 5438+February 2009 and the "budget coordination" bill aimed at modifying some contents of the Senate bill by Democrats. It is estimated that the bill will cost $940 billion in the first 10 year after it takes effect, and it is expected to reduce the US government budget deficit138 billion.

On March 2nd, 2065438, the House of Representatives voted 2 1 9 to 2 12 to pass the largest medical insurance reform bill in the United States in decades, with a total amount of 940 billion dollars. All party member and 34 Democrats voted against it. Subsequently, the House of Representatives approved an additional bill "Budget Coordination" by 220 votes to 265,438+065,438+0 to adjust the Senate bill. It is expected that this bill will be submitted to the Senate this week to complete the second step of the "two-step" medical reform legislation. Subsequently, US President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the White House in Washington, DC, on the House of Representatives voting to pass the health care reform bill. So far, the final version of the health care reform bill has been passed by the House of Representatives. This indicates that Obama has made great progress in health care reform since he took office, paving the way for the United States to achieve universal coverage of health care.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill will enable 32 million Americans who did not have medical insurance to enjoy medical insurance, so that almost all Americans will enjoy medical insurance, with coverage reaching 95% in 20 19 and 83% in 20 10. The Congressional Budget Office also predicts that the federal budget deficit will be reduced by $654.38+0.43 billion in 654.38+00 years.

20 10 on March 23rd, US President Barack Obama signed the medical insurance reform bill at the White House. The comprehensive medical reform goal that American Democrats have worked hard for many years will eventually be realized.