Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America Now: "President Obama issued a clarion call for reform."
Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Solutions that Work
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Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager for Health Care for America Now has this statement on President Obama's speech tonight:
"President Obama issued a clarion call for reforms that will guarantee all Americans have good, affordable coverage, directly taking on the insurance industry that wants to protect its profits and his political opponents who are engaging in fear-mongering for partisan purposes. He reaffirmed his support for the reforms that are essential to achieving his goals: assuring that people get good health coverage at work; strict regulation of the insurance industry; competition between private insurers and a new public health insurance option; and shared responsibility between individuals, employers and government in paying for coverage. The President reminded us that those who have opposed government programs like Social Security and Medicare in the past are once again working to deny history.
Health Care for America Now will continue to rally Americans at the grassroots nationwide to make sure Congress enacts health insurance reforms that deliver on the President’s historic charge this year."
GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE NEWS A look at insurance state by state shows that in most states one or two companies have about 80% of the healthcare insurance business. Pres Obrama mentioned that in Alabama one company has 90% of the business. In Maine Sen Snow's state Wellpoint has 71% of the insurance healthcare business etc.
We need a public option to give insurance buyers more choice and provide a lowcost option FOR PEOPLE OF LIMITED MEANS.
The URBAN INSTITUTE Public Policy Institute estimated that a public option would save the taxpayers $224 to 400 Billion over a period of 10 years by lowering the the cost of proposed subsidies for the uninsured.