By now most of us have heard what we need to about health care reform. We have heard the Republicans - and some centrist Democrats - deride the Public Option as "socialize medicine" and "bureaucracy." On the other side, we have heard Obama call the Public Option a sensible way to keep the health insurance industry honest; though he refuses to "draw lines in the sand" about health care reform.

The president Barack Obama is playing his destiny in this historic initiative to reform the U.S. health care and provide affordable health insurance coverage to all Americans. It's Obama's destiny to reform the health care, writes a major newspaper in Europe.*

U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have introduced legislation to prevent the federal government from rationing health care services. Senate Bill 1259, the Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2009, would prohibit the government from using “comparative effectiveness research” to deny treatments to patients based on government’s assessment of their cost-effectiveness.

As lawmakers debate how to pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund projects that including both private and public insurance choices in a new insurance exchange would save the United States as much as $265 billion in administrative costs from 2010 to 2020. Congressional leaders are attempting to keep 10-year federal budget costs of health care reform legislation under $1 trillion.

The manufacturers of generic drugs could be the big winners of the reform of health insurance that the government of the president Obama wants to implement in the coming months the United States.

Joe Biden unveiled his hospital deal to cut $155 billion over the next 10 years. This looks like some of that health care reform that we have heard so much about from the current administration. Biden called the hospital deal, which was reached after weeks of negotiations, a sign that President Obama's promised health-care reform is on track.

On 1 August, the health insurance that covers my family for about seventeen years expires. So, I tried to keep the same health insurance provider Kaiser Permanente, but this time as a private individual. Until now, I had the chance to benefit from a "group coverage." While this is complicate, I will try to explain by the lens of my own experience how the U.S. health care system, to what extent and how quickly it can become frightening.

While public health insurance program would be cheaper for America, we can't afford it. This is one of the most common protests to the proposed Public health are plan. Yet, polls (like the CBS/N. Y. Times poll) consistently find that most Americans (over 75% in fact) still favor a public health insurance plan.

Responding to criticism from health insurance companies, President Obama today told insurance industry “antagonists” not to fear his health care reform plans."If the free market’s so great, and the government’s so bad, insurance companies won’t have any trouble competing with a public health plan," Said the President.

Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report titled "Hidden Costs of Health Care." It shows that out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with employer-based health insurance coverage rise to more than $3,700 per year.

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical need of basic change to enable more equitable, effective, efficient care. Experts in various fields of medicine, public health, and industry propose that telemedicine, or information technology enhanced healthcare, must be core component of viable healthcare reform strategy, view they forcefully present in a white paper published online ahead of print in Telemedicine and e-Health, peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.