Washington, DC) -- A bipartisan health care summit is occurring today at the White House, below is a live video stream of the health care summit:
The President’s proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care and begins to give them the health care security they’ve been losing over the past 16 years.
- It makes insurance more affordable by providing one of the largest tax cuts for health care in history – reducing premium costs and helping over 31 million Americans afford health care.
- It sets up a new competitive health insurance market -- giving millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress have.
- It brings greater accountability by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
- It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
- It reduces the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.
The urgency of reform couldn’t be more clear: just this month, a major health insurer informed customers in California that they could see their premiums rise by as much as 39 percent this year.
The purpose of today’s meeting is to have an open exchange about the best ideas for reforming our health care system, and to do it in a way that lets the American people observe and have confidence in the process.
