Women's access to health care
Any plan should insure that women have access to essential health services, including birth control.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Require employers with payroll costs over $250,000 to provide health insurance
Add your commentRequire employers with payroll costs over $250,000 that are using the HIE to provide health insurance.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Increase Medicaid payments to physicians for primary care.
Add your commentIncrease Medicaid payments to physicians for primary care.
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Health Savings Accounts and Mandatory Catastrophic health insurance from the govt
2 commentsSet up health savings accounts and catastrophic mandatory insurance for every person over 21 years old.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »We should reduce the growth in health care spending in the United States.
Add your commentWe should reduce the growth in health care spending in the United States.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Reduce Medicare payments to hospitals with excessive re-admissions.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Expand Medicaid for lower-income individuals and families.
Add your commentFurther expand Medicaid eligibility and scope of covered preventive services, for lower-income individuals and families.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Eliminate Medicare PART D coverage gap
Provide for a phased-in elimination of the Medicare PART D coverage gap and requires drug manufactures to discount and/or rebate additional ...more »
Add your commentProvide for a phased-in elimination of the Medicare PART D coverage gap and requires drug manufactures to discount and/or rebate additional qualifying drugs originally excluded from the plan.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Establish a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Add your commentEstablish a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which would analyze cost variances for similar treatments across the country.
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Phase out subsidies to corn farmers.
“We’re seeing that corn is the number-one reason that fast food is so cheap and available,” said Meredith Niles, a food policy analyst at th ...more »
3 comments“We’re seeing that corn is the number-one reason that fast food is so cheap and available,” said Meredith Niles, a food policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety who was not involved in the study. “U.S. programs are subsidizing obesity in this country.”
http://www.businesspundit.com/to-bail-out-the-country-stop-bailing-out-corn/
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Establish a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE)
Establish a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE) within a proposed Health Choices Administration, to provide individuals and employers access to ...more »
Add your commentEstablish a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE) within a proposed Health Choices Administration, to provide individuals and employers access to health insurance coverage choices. The HIE would contract with various insurers to offer benefit plans at competitive prices, by establishing a risk-pooling mechanism. This will allow individuals and small companies to band together to bargain for lower rates.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Provide a tax credit for low-income individuals and families
Add your commentProvide a tax credit for low-income individuals and families to help pay insurance premiums.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Tax employers that do not provide the required health insurance.
Add your commentProvide for a tax on employers that do not provide the required health insurance.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures.
Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures for the delivery of health care services in the United ...more »
Add your commentRequire the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures for the delivery of health care services in the United States.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Establish a Health Benefits Advisory Committee
Add your commentEstablish a Health Benefits Advisory Committee chaired by the Surgeon General of the United States.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Establish a Health Choices Administration
Add your commentEstablish a Health Choices Administration to govern public health options.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Tax individuals without health insurance.
1 commentProvide for a tax on individuals without health insurance.
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Single Payer
The only idea to move away from the greedy Wall Street insurance companies is the Medicare/Medicaid system/Single Payer. Employers deduct Me ...more »
Add your commentThe only idea to move away from the greedy Wall Street insurance companies is the Medicare/Medicaid system/Single Payer. Employers deduct Medicaid from withholdings so just make this take the place of greedy Wall Street insurance providers. One payment for health care, so simple so easy!
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Health Care Solution
Add your commentHeath Care Solution Video
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Keep it Simple "Public Option" and everyone Wins!!!
I believe I have an idea that will make folks happy. People that do not have health care can select the public option. They are not requir ...more »
Add your commentI believe I have an idea that will make folks happy.
People that do not have health care can select the public option. They are not required to have health care insurance, but if they go to a doctor's office or the emergency room or emergent care centers, or they just want to get a physical then they can enroll at point of service at the health providers for the public option for calendar year 2012 only. Whatever health care insurance the municipality, county, or state government employees has for the location is the "public option". This option is only available if the individual does not have health care coverage. The individual can request the "public option" health care coverage and pay the co-pay of the public option if it is for health maintenance or emergent health needs. If it is elective health care, then the individual pays whatever the cost is for that procedure under the health care coverage for the maunicipality, county, or state government employees. That is the public option and he/she is enrolled in the public option with his/her social security number along with any qualifying dependents.
The healthcare provider sends the invoice for the health care service to the IRS for payment, minus the deductible.
Individuals that do not have health care coverage, but would like health care coverage can sign up when they pay their taxes in 2011 for 2012. The cost of the "public option" is 2% of their entire income (earned, investment, interest earned, whatever the nature of income). If they elect the public option on there tax returns, then the 2% will be automatically deducted from their tax refund, if they get one, or to the amount of tax owed if they have to pay. The 2% for the public option comes out before any tax liens are taken out for back taxes, education loans, etc.
I know if will be a difficult for the IRS, who will probably shift it to CMS for administration, to get all the deductibles and payments to providers straight. But the municipal, county, or state government should be willing to help.
What are the advantages:
There is no primary care provider, so using the "public option" actually provides those who elect the "public option" greater freedom.
The remimbursement to providers is not mandated by government, the providers have agreed to these amounts with the Health Insurance Company through a free market.
The Health Insurance Company that negotiated these costs may no longer be seen as greedy and uncaring, in fact, they may be seen as heros by users of the "public option" because it is through their business savy that the "public option" provides costs derived from a free market.
The abortion issue goes away because the "public option" does not require the Federal government to negotiate what procedures are covered and which are not, the municipality, county, or state has already determined that when it entered into the health care coverage agreement for the municipal, county or state employees and the states insurance requirments should have already been resolved as these insurance carriers are licensed by the state.
That is another big plus, the state keeps its power to regulate insurance and keep its rules for precentages held back for a catastrophic event or for possibles claims to the insurance carrier because the insurance carrier does not have to reimburse the "public option" user, the Federal Government does that.
Other benefits:
The Federal Government can get out of the business of regulation reimbursement costs for Medicaid and Medicare. Those who use Medicaid and Medicare are shifted to the "public option" and for those that cover the co-pay, then the providers bill the co-pays to the Federal Government.
This frees the State governments from having to manage medicaid. All the municipal, county, or state governments need to do is negotiate the best possible reimbursement costs with their insurers.
Another big bonus is that those lucky few who do not want health insurance because they "take care of their own needs" or have never been to a doctor or never plan to go to a doctor or don't believe that they will ever need a doctor, are not penalized by their right to refuse health insurance. But, should they not have insurance, and they have not signed up for the "public option" through their tax returns or did not go to a health care provider in 2012, then the providers are mandated to charge the uninsured the cost (co-pay and health plan reimbursed amount) that the municipality, county, or state government has negotiated for their employees. So everyone wins and everyone gets what they want, or what their business savy allows them to get for all of us.
And what really good...we can provide universal health care coverage in 2012 by providing the sign up option for health insurance on the 2010 tax returns.
And best of all...the program is funded before it starts so there should not be a deficit.
I think this is pretty simple and pretty straight forward and I was waiting for someone to get it out there, but sense no one seemed to think of the idea but me, I thought I should share it.
Could you get this idea to the Republicans, the Democrates, the Independents, and most importantly to the President?
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »establish mandates to purchase health insurance for most legal United States residents
Add your commentHR 3200 should establish a mandate to purchase health insurance for most legal United States residents with an income above poverty level.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Prohibit premium variances
Add your commentWe should prohibit premium variances, except for age, geographic area, or family (vs. individual) enrollment.
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This idea is active.Ideas Contained Within The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 »Limit annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000
Add your commentLimit the annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family.
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Improve the quality of healthcare provision
Enact legislation to provide incentives for the creation of integrated physician practices. This would improve health care quality, reduce c ...more »
Add your commentEnact legislation to provide incentives for the creation of integrated physician practices. This would improve health care quality, reduce costs, and create competition. Without a focus on improving quality of health care provision, the debate centers on decreasing insurance premiums which, in my opinion, is attacking a symptom and not the cause.
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This idea is active.Ideas Submitted To Congress From The People »Justify The Cost Of Health Care !!
Everyone is talking about "How To Pay for Health Care"..Let's Start talking about "Justifying the Cost In The first Place" Greed is why Heal ...more »
Add your commentEveryone is talking about "How To Pay for Health Care"..Let's Start talking about "Justifying the Cost In The first Place" Greed is why Health Care Costs have Sky Rocketed..My daughter just spent 3 days in the Hospital for a routine surgery..and We just Recieved a bill for $15,000....Justify that for me Congress !!! 15,000 for Services like * Meals that are no better then Prisoners get..Doctors that You Never See..Attitudes from Nurses...Treated like "a Herd of Cattle" $22 combs, $2000 a day for a room that you share with someother Poor Sap..and on and on...And all for the Low Price of $15,000+...We need a "Cap" that can be charged on every Item and Service in the Health Care Industry..Including Medications...let's Quit trying to find a way to "Pay for the High Costs."..Instead, Get the Hospitals and Doctors in Check !! instead.
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