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Home | News Briefs | U.S. | World | Celeb Buzz | Entertainment | Sports | Business | Health | Sci / Tech | Politics | Weird & Offbeat --- Advertisment --- Obama Continues Healthcare Focus Monday With Address At American Medical Association June 15, 2009 11:08 a.m. EST --- Advertisment --- Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Amid heightened GOP criticisms against the administration's proposed public healthcare option, President Barack Obama speaks at the American Medical Association on Monday to gain support for his initiatives. It will be the first time in 26 years that a president addresses the group, signaling the serious efforts of this administration to achieve an agreement overhauling the nation's healthcare system by July. The President gives his address at the annual AMA meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago at 12:15 pm ET. He willl "walk through the case for healthcare reform" and "touch on many topics that are important to [doctors].... about both how medicine is delivered, how that efficiency can be improved," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a briefing last Friday. It will be the first time a president speaks at AMA since Ronald Reagan did so in 1983. Obama is pushing for a public heathcare program that Republicans say would "deny, delay, and ration health care" just as it has in countries that have adopted government-run insurance programs. "All of us want reform. But the government-run plan that some are proposing here in the U.S. isn't the kind of change Americans are looking for," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement last week. "We should learn a lesson from the problems that we've seen in countries like Great Britain and New Zealand. We should learn a lesson from the nightmares that so many people in these countries and their families have endured as a result of government-run health care and the bureaucratic government boards that almost always come with it," McConnell added. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) around the same time held a press conference warning that the administration's public option plan would cause middle-class families to have "their taxes raised, their care rationed, and their medical decisions taken away and replaced by the directives of Washington bureaucrats under the Democrats' government takeover of health care." The AMA strongly opposes a public option, according to a New York Times report that caused a stir last week in Capitol Hill, so much so that the AMA issued a statement saying, "Make no mistake: The American Medical Association is committed to health reform that covers the uninsured this year... A government-run health care plan is certainly not the only option on the table, and there are alternatives we are actively considering. The AMA is engaged in continuing discussions with President Obama and members of Congress about how to make health care coverage for all a reality." The group was one of several insurance and health groups and unions that last month submitted a proposal to the White House to reduce healthcare costs within a decade by $2 trillion, or by 1.5 percentage points of spending each year. Obama had touted the proposal, but had to contend with a report the next day from Social Security and Medicare Trustees saying expenditures under Social Security would overtake income from taxes by 2016, and that Medicare's Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund would be depleted in 2017. But the President seemed undeterred, announcing along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that same week that a breakthrough had been reached in his healthcare agenda and that a bill would be on the floor of the House by the end of July, before Congress takes its summer recess from Aug. 3 to Sept. 4. The President, according to the Times, wants to include in his healthcare plan provisions to protect doctors from malpractice suits, something that could gain Republican support but conversely cause tension with some liberals. On Saturday, he devoted his weekly address to outlining new Medicare and Medicaid savings worth $313 billion that he said will ensure that the nation has nearly $950 billion set aside to offset the cost of health care reform over the next decade, aside from the $635 billion provided for in his proposed 2010 budget. "I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that it would be irresponsible to not act. We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations," Obama said. He said the $313 billion will be saved through "commonsense changes" such as ensuring drug companies "pay their fair share" so government can cut spending on prescription drugs, and providing doctors with incentives to provided "the best care instead of more care" so that unnecessary hospital confinements and treatments are avoided. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has has jurisdiction over Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and other health entitlement programs, has issued cautious statements about Obama's proposals. "There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved. But right now, I could not put a figure on that amount of money," Grassley said on "FOX News Sunday" about the President's $950 billion health care reform plan. " I'm going to be looking at the president's suggestions to make sure that it doesn't make things worse in rural America." Obama has repeatedly said bringing down costs and expanding coverage for the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans is a top priority of his administration. The task of overhauling the nation's healthcare system has resisted an reform efforts in previous administrations, most notably during the term of former President Bill Clinton, who had authored an ambitious healthcare plan in 1993 that ended in political disaster. Copyright © 2003 - 2009 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. 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