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Declared 2012 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama position on Health Care
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• He claims that medical bills and health related issues are the number one cause for personal bankruptcy.
• A priority for Obama would be to promote affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care.
• Obama would mandate that all children have health care coverage.
• He would create a national public insurance program that would allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health care similar to that available to federal employees.
• He supports universal health care, and believes that the government should buy prescription drugs in bulk to reduce costs.
• His plan would require all employers to contribute toward health coverage for their employees or toward the cost of the public plan.
• He wants hospitals to be graded on performance and switch to more cost-effective, computerized record keeping system.
• Obama would create a national health insurance exchange to reform the private insurance market.
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