PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Health Care Questions Worth Asking
Posted: December 3, 2009 at 3:38 a.m.
Points to think about before passage of the National Health Care bill; a health care bill for the sake of a health care bill is no good.
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More questions to ask about the Health Care Bill:
Will the bill remove profit from the health care equation?
Will the bill lower monthly premiums and other out-of-pocket expenses by providing real competition?
Will the bill break up insurance monopolies in the states by removing health insurance exemption from anti-trust laws?
Will this bill help small businesses to create more jobs by lowering the cost of their health care coverage for employees?
Will this bill allow employers to give long delayed pay raises because they no longer have to cover the ridiculous premiums being asked by profit seeking insurance companies?
Will the bill keep an insurance company bureaucrat from coming between a person and his/her doctor?
Will the bill prevent insurance companies from cancelling policies that have been paid into religiously for decades?
Will the bill end denying coverage because of a pre-existing condition?
Will the bill end putting caps on coverage because an illness is cutting into company profits too deeply?
Will this bill prevent discrimination against women which forces them to pay more for their medical insurance?
Will the bill close the gap in Medicare Part D?
Will the bill get insurance companies OUT of Medicare Part D so that meds can be bid on like they do in Canada?
Will the bill make purchasing meds from Canada unnecessary because the U.S. can bid on them too for the best price?
Will the bill get insurance companies out of Medicare Advantage so that Medicare costs can be reduced for everyone?
Will the bill treat all Americans as valued members of society who deserve to take advantage of the greatest medical care in the world?
Will this bill finally recognize the right of every American to have access that they can afford to the best health care system in the world?
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