Health Care Reform Legislation Announced in the Senate
Senator Ted Kennedy
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), recently released The Affordable Health Choices Act. The bill aims to reduce health care costs, protect individuals’ choices of doctors, hospitals and insurance plans and guarantee, quality and affordable health care for all Americans.
The legislation would require all individuals to have health insurance, ban insurers from refusing to cover pre-existing conditions, and establish online exchanges where the uninsured and employees of small companies could shop for affordable insurance.
C3 strongly supports the belief that affordable health care ought to be available to all Americans regardless of their pre-existing conditions. The issue of prohibiting insurers from excluding individual with pre-existing conditions should be of the utmost importance to the entire cancer community. Currently, our laws allow significant gaps in coverage. These gaps are particularly disturbing for Americans struggling to treat or maintain a pre-existing condition, such as colorectal cancer.
Health care reform is long overdue. Senator Kennedy has mentioned in the past how his own personal battle with cancer has shown him the need for health care reform. “We have the greatest doctors and medical innovations in the world, but more and more Americans are on the outside looking in to a world of progress and discovery that is denied to them because they cannot afford quality healthcare.” Kennedy went on to say, “When successful reform takes hold, the American people will wonder what has taken us so long.” (The Boston Globe)
This news article was originally posted on June 11th, 2009 and was accurate at the time of publication. Since then, information may have changed or links may now be outdated. Please call our Answer Line 1-877-427-2111 for the latest information, or talk to your doctor before making any medical decisions.
Posted by Joe Arite on June 11th, 2009
Tags: Health Care Reform, Senator Kennedy
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David Schwartz
June 16, 2009 at 2:33pm
If you want us to make a donation for health care reform, then give us our jobs back! I worked for 36 years in the United States. Now, I have been unemployed for 14 months! In the meantime, immigrant workers came here, and they are the people holding our jobs now. Why don’t you send someone to my house at [redacted] Reno is a 24/7 city. Therefore, I can show you many immigrants from Mexico, the Philippines, Bangladesh, etc. who are working 2 jobs. This is not right! This is UNFAIR!
anonymous
July 1, 2009 at 3:08pm
then step up and compete, jobs are competitive – it’s time we stop looking at them as a given. Experience doesn’t mean you are owed ANYTHING. A CEO once said, “Everyday I remind myself that I have to work to be here.”
We admire those who have the diligence to work multiple jobs and support families. This is something we need to step up and do as Americans.