America Needs Healthcare
The robust bill (America’s Affordable Health Choices Act) guarantees that everyone is covered and it promotes shared responsibility among individuals, employers, and the government. It effectively provides quality and affordable health care for all.
In recent polls more than half of Americans families said they skipped health care because it was too expensive. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act puts the brakes on this trend by offering sliding scale subsidies (available to families of four earning up to $88,000 this year 400% of the federal poverty level) and capping out-of-pocket expenses. It also expands Medicaid to 133% of the poverty level (about $24,400 for a family of three in 2009), allowing millions of low-income Americans who are not currently eligible for Medicaid to gain coverage. What’s more, the bill will close the Medicare hole over time, helping seniors and those with disabilities pay for life-preserving medications.
Many Americans are satisfied with their current health plan and doctor. The House bill establishes a national health insurance exchange (a marketplace) that would allow people to keep coverage, even when changing jobs, and it would hold down overall costs by reducing administrative overhead. One of the many plans offered in the exchange will be a strong public health insurance plan to help level the playing field, and to provide real competition for private insurers who often monopolize certain areas.
Under the House bill, insurers cannot discriminate against women or the ill by denying them coverage based on pre-existing conditions (guaranteed issue) or charge higher premiums based on health status or gender (modified community rating).
“The House proposal will begin the process of fixing what’s broken about our health care system, reducing costs for all, building on what works, and covering an estimated 97% of all Americans. And by emphasizing prevention and wellness, it will also help improve the quality of health care for every American.”
America needs quality affordable healthcare for all and this bill comes closest to achieving this. Many in the corporate sector have launched well funded efforts to sway Congress to leave things as they are.
There are nearly 50 million in America without healthcare, and millions more with less than adequate coverage. America needs Congress to support this measure and give healthcare to all.
(Excerpts taken from www.todaysworkplace.org)
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