Fight for
Health Care! Call Congress Today!
 The House is scheduled to vote on health care
reform this Saturday, November 7, 2009. Please call 1-877-235-2465 and
tell your congressional representative to support H.R. 3962 the Affordable Health Care for
America Act. We must remain committed to the goal of
quality affordable care which does not place added financial
burden on
the middle class. The House health care bill accomplishes this
goal and
we must remind our representatives of this fact.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act will:
- Generate
funds through a 5.4 percent tax surcharge on wealthy individuals
with
annual incomes of more than $500,000 or on families earning more
than
$1 million, rather than taxing employer provided health
benefits.
- Extend
insurance coverage to 36 million uncovered Americans,
guaranteeing that
96 percent of Americans have coverage.
- Include a
public option designed to lower costs and foster
competition.
- Create a
health insurance exchange making it easier for small groups and
individuals to purchase coverage.
- Will cap
annual out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies
from
denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
- Reduce the
federal deficit by roughly $30 billion over the next
decade.
Organizations
that endorsed the House bill include the national AFL-CIO, the
AARP,
which represents over 35 million people ages 50 and older, as
well as
the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest
association of physicians and medical students.
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