Why rush on Health Care Reform? “Families are being Clobbered”
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on July 23rd, 2009 in Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
In a televised press conference, when asked why he felt it necessary to rush and to impose a deadline for health care reform, President Obama replied, “I am rushed because I get letters every day from families who are being clobbered by health care costs. In a country like ours, that’s not right. If you don’t set deadlines in this town, nothing gets done.”
The basic idea, he said, is that in this country, if you want health care, you should be able to get affordable health care. Without a single-payer system, he believes that 97-98 percent of the population would be covered under the bills currently working their way through congress. Also included are protections from the insurance industry practice of canceling the insurance of policy holders who get sick and exclusions for pre-existing conditions.
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