The White House has announced that President Obama will sign the health care reform bill on Tuesday at Northern Virginia Community College.
The final, fixed legislation was passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday evening.
The U.S. health care system is in serious need of changes, but the Democratic plan to overhaul it is badly flawed and should be repealed and replaced, the Senate Republican leader says.
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Saturday in the GOP radio and video address that “nobody is satisfied with the health care system as it is.”
Costs are out of control and “people are being squeezed out of the market,” he said.
But he said the health care bill signed by President Barack Obama this week doesn’t solve those problems and undermines what is best about health care in this country — a wide variety of medical options and innovations.
The main health care law and a companion “fix-it” measure aim to crack down on insurance industry abuses and to reduce federal deficits by an estimated $143 billion over a decade. Most Americans would be required to buy insurance for the first time or face penalties.
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Supporters and opponents of health reform continue to duke it out ahead of next week’s expected final House vote, but both sides are already laying the groundwork to effectively implement reform should it pass.
