Health Care
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[edit] Where do Progressives Stand?
- Insurance and drug companies are making record profits. We’re paying more and more, but you can’t count on coverage when you really need it.
- Real health care reform should guarantee quality, affordable health care for everyone.
- Real health care reform should give consumers a choice: keep private insurance or join a public insurance play based on my ability to pay.
- Health insurance companies routinely deny coverage to increase their profits. There should be rules regulating the insurance industry to make sure health coverage is there when I need it.
- Powerful insurance companies have controlled the health care debate for too long and their solutions don’t work.
- All Americans deserve comprehensive benefits at a fair price – insurance companies shouldn’t be able to deny coverage for someone if that person has a pre-existing condition.
- Health Savings Accounts don’t help those without insurance get coverage, and aren’t a real solution to the health care crisis.
- Prescription drugs must be more affordable – we should be able to import safe drugs from other developed countries, and drug companies that block generic drugs from entering the market should face penalties.
- Preventative care is critical to reducing the cost of health care, and preventive care should be required coverage.
- Health care decisions should be made by patients and doctors – not health insurances companies and their agents.
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- 15.3% of people in the U.S. don’t have health insurance.
- 1.2 million Wisconsinites were uninsured at some point during 2007-2008 – nearly 25% of residents under 65. Over 80% of Wisconsin’s uninsured were in working families.
