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Over and over, we have been told by our opponents
Over and over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way, that since government can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can’t afford health insurance, hope that you don’t get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that’s the price of progress.
Texas children need health insurance
"a recent statistic on the terrible effects of lack of health coverage for children that stopped us in our tracks: As reported in Monday's Chronicle ( 1.2 million Texas children still without insurance ), when comparing Texas children who have health insurance to those without, 90 percent of insured kids are considered healthy, but that holds for only 58 percent of kids without health insurance."
Health Insurance Consumer Protections
THE SECURITY YOU GET from health insurance reform:
- No Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions
- Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history.
- No Exorbitant Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Deductibles or Co-Pays
- Insurance companies will have to abide by yearly caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses.
- No Cost-Sharing for Preventive Care
- Insurance companies must fully cover, without charge, regular checkups and tests that help you prevent illness, such as mammograms or eye and foot exams for diabetics.
We need health care like the U.S. Congress
Congressman Pete Olson, (R-Sugar Land), was taken to the George Washington University Hospital after a fainting episode at the House gym and treated for heart problems by doctors who inserted a pacemaker into his chest. The press release is here.
Thank goodness that Pete Olson has good health insurance. Too bad the rest of us don’t.
Pete may not know this yet, but he has now joined the ranks of the uninsurable. When he leaves Congress, no health insurance company will touch him, or if one does write him a policy, it will cost a small fortune and the heart will be excluded as a “pre-existing condition”.
Even a blind black Republican . . .
A survey of the Harris County Medical Society confirms what we already know about health insurance. It's not working. When surveyed about the top six health insurers in the Houston area, 70% of the doctors said that insurance companies had denied claims for medically necessary procedures.
