These are simply notes that I took during a conference call with Senator Dodd co-sponsored by Doctors for Health care Reform and the CWA. Which are sponsoring a bill in Congress for healthcare reform. Their goal is to give health care to all Americans.
June 18, 2009 - Ted Kennedy’s absence was acknowledged and we were told that he was cheering for the passage of the health care reform bill. The bill which is still in draft has and is still going through revisions at this time was to try and get health care into the hands of people that have no insurance at all and cannot afford health care until it is becomes catastrophic. Over 14,000 people every day loose health care, of those people 13,000 people loose their jobs everyday. So the bill is a moral, economic issue and is not something that should drag health care down and give Americans a second rate health care system. The bill is an effort to expand health care to all 46 million people have no insurance and 90 million are under insured. Every senator has a very good health care plan that affords them many benefits. Yet, as many as, 14,000 people are put at risk by not having health care coverage.
Portion II of the bill is about quality of care, Long term care and coverage are still being written at this time. As you hear in the news lately a public option is something that should be an option. They want the private option to be on the table and they don’t want to see private insurance go away. They want Americans to be able to get a choice of coverage.
Prevention should be in the forefront to drive down costs of insurance. The market reforms for pre-existing conditions should also be taken into account. This portion of insurance is what will help drive down the costs of insurance. As Massage therapists we should really pay close attention to this section of the bill which will give us a foot in the door to being part of the health care system. We should not be left out in the cold as we have been with medicare.
The writing of the bill is still being worked on very strongly. They hope to put a bill on President’s Desk before the July 4th break in Congress. They are working through the weekends and extra hours to draft and make sure that everything in past bills that was wrong is corrected in this bill.
White house/Senate/House are currently an advocate for the public option.
CWA Deloris asked the senator why should we believe that health care reform will actually get passed. Dodd said it will be a rough road and several have failed over the past 60 years. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton was the last to try and fail. Why because insurance companies put a spin on the last bill that made people think they would have all their rights and options taken away from them. That’s why a grass roots push to make it happen is needed. The insurance companies scared the public in the last bill to make it fail.
Dodd’s bill takes a lot of these failures into count and is seeing people cross over from the opposition and embrace the bill, which takes their concerns into account. He thinks because of the current economic situation that the bill has a much better chance of passing the house.
Dodd is trying to make health care affording for all Americans.
1-866-210-3678 this is how you can contact your senator and let your voice be heard on the matter.
June 19th, 2009 | Tags: healthcare, massage therapist | Category: Massage Articles, Massage Business | Comments (1)
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