Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Repealing Health Care, without Making the Case for an Alternative Plan, has Real Consequences.


Here's a list of adverse affects if the Republican dream to repeal health care comes true:
WSJ: Repealing them, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned, would hurt the little guys, especially families and small business owners, while helping the big guys, especially insurance industry barons.
Key provisions of the law:
Nearly 3.6 million residents of Wisconsin with private insurance would be vulnerable again to lifetime limits on coverage and147,000 young adults would lose coverage through their parents' insurance plans if the federal health care law is repealed.
Nearly 900,000 Wisconsin seniors who have Medicare coverage would be forced to come up with a copay for important preventive services such as mammograms, colonoscopies and annual check ups, and 46,680 seniors who got a one-time tax-free $250 rebate in 2010to help pay for prescription drugs during the "donut hole" gap in coverage would face significantly higher prescription drug costs in the future.
Without protection, 320,000 people in Wisconsin could risk losing benefits when they become sick or injured if their carriers find even a minor mistake in their old paperwork.
Sebelius said of the law, ""What we're seeing already is that it's giving people more freedom and more choices. Repeal will take away all those freedoms and shift back control to insurance companies."
A congressional report found that over the next few decades the reforms would reduce health care costs and our national deficit by a trillion dollars.

1 comment:

  1. Let's hope we save the critical prevention policies/services that decrease preventable disease and the unnecessary healthcare costs!

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