Obama's+Domestic+Policy

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 * H****annah:** obamas agenda includes education, immigration, environmental/energy issues, income taxes, social security, the economy, civil rights, and veterans' issues.


 * Kyle:** On February 13, 2009, Obama signed the American Recovery and Investment Act.
 * Johnathan:** The Recover and Investment Act is commonly referred to as the 'stimulus' or the 'stimulus package'.
 * Hannah:** The three immediate goals of the Recover act are:
 * 1) Create new jobs and save existing ones.
 * 2) Spur economic activity
 * 3) Invest in long-term growth.
 * Kyle:** The Recovery Act intended to achieve these goals by providing $787 billion dollars in:
 * Tax cuts and benefits for millions of working families and businesses.
 * Funding for entitlement programs, such as unemployment benefits.
 * Funding for federal contracts, grants and loans.
 * Johnathan:** The Recovery Act included $288 billion dollars in tax cuts. The tax cut included a payroll tax of $400 dollars per worker, and $800 dollars per married couple in 2009 and 2010.
 * Kyle:** The Legislature needed $30 billion dollars in tax cuts for American businesses.


 * Johnathan:** On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
 * Kyle:** The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ensures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care, and will create the transformation within the health care system necessary to contain costs.
 * Hannah:** The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains 9 titles, each addressing an essential component of reform:
 * 1) Quality, affordable Health care for all Americans.
 * 2) The role of public programs.
 * 3) Improving the quality and efficiency of health care.
 * 4) Prevention of chronic disease and improving public health.
 * 5) Health care work force.
 * 6) Transparency and program integrity.
 * 7) Improving access to innovative medical therapies.
 * 8) Community living assistance services and supports.
 * 9) Revenue provisions.

Obama Care is also causing small businesses to eliminate coverage all together, and Health Care providers are closing their doors or consolidating- which is causing costs on insurance to go up.
 * Johnathan:** Obama Care will increase insurances for millions of families by $2000 a year by 2016.


 * Kyle:** 'We must make the choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country, and investing in the generation that will build its future.'


 * Hannah:** 'If your one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. This law will only make it more secure and more affordable. Insurance companies can no longer impose lifetime limits on the amount of care you receive. They can no longer discriminate against children with pre existing conditions. They can no longer drop your coverage if you get sick. They can no long jack up your premiums without reason. They are required to provide free, preventive care like check-ups and mammograms- a provision that's already helped 54 million Americans with private insurance. And by this August, nearly 13 million of you will receive a rebate from your insurance company because it spent too much on things like administrative costs and CEO bonuses, and not enough on your health care.'