 schreibe says: More: For starters, there has been an alarming deterioration in private insurance coverage all across the country as employers have reduced health benefits or charged more for them. Meanwhile, premiums for family coverage have soared far faster than wages in recent years, so that even middle-income families are feeling the pinch. Fortunately, there is strong political and popular support for the 300-percent threshold. At least 16 states have either raised their limits to that level or enacted legislation to do so. Health officials in New York calculate that families in New York City or on Long Island, where two-thirds of the state’s uninsured children live, would need incomes above 300 percent of the poverty level just to pay for life’s other necessities, like housing, food, transportation, child care and taxes, leaving no money for health insurance. More: But the real rationale put forth by New Jersey and New York is that it is simply good public policy to insure as many children as possible. With adequate coverage, children are more likely to get preventive care to head off illness and prompt treatment when they become sick. And experience has shown that, when states extend coverage to higher income levels, families at lower levels enroll in greater numbers as well. The sad fact is that health care costs and insurance premiums have soared far above levels that existed when S-chip was created. What used to be a problem for low-income families has become a problem for the middle class as well. S-chip needs to reflect that. NO CHILD IN AMERICA SHOULD CARRY THE LABEL "UNINSURED"! It doesn't matter if that child lives in a family who can't earn enough money to qualify them as AT THE POVERTY LINE or slightly above such line or 300% above the invisible range that denotes whether or not you are middle class or indigent. It's not only insane it's an unmitigated assault on decency. If a child is turned away from medical assistance due to their parent's ability to pay, we all should be hanging our heads in shame. We must unite on this one and stop putting up with what the medical corporations and insurance companies dictate. Let's all clamor ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! PUT A HALT TO MEDICAL INSURANCE GREED! Sign the Petition N... Whereas: Over 12,000 thousand doctors have signed on in favor of this plan, including two former U.S. Surgeons General Whereas: Under this proposed plan, we can pay for a comprehensive national health care program with the same money we are now spending and cover every single person in the United States And Whereas: The bill provides money for retraining those whose jobs as administrators in the insurance industry would be lost as a result of this shift; Be it Resolved That: We call on our members of Congress to pass HR 676, non-profit Medicare for All, so our people and our nation can have the excellent health care system we deserve. Health care is a human right, and we call on our membe... Except the medicare system is on the verge of bankrupcy, and adding more middle class people to it will only hurt everyone. Note that medicare is a highly REGRESSIVE tax, with the poorest of society paying the highest proportion of their income to fund the system. Why should someone fighting to make ends meet have to subsidize healthcare for people much better off then them? The solution here is to encourage private health insurance partnerships like the Massachusetts health connector - where a family can purchase health insurance for as little as $300 a month -- not to give "free" healthcare to people that can clearly afford it. Children are the future and we hear all nature of politicians sprouting this line - until they have to fork out. Ex Labour leader and Prime Minister, Bob Hawke said there wouldn't be a child living in poverty in Australia by year X. It was always a sham and became a poor legacy. No-one since has done much but suck up to business. |
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