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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 07:01 PM
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CNN doing its part to promote RW distortions about health care reform
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5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

By Shawn Tully, editor at large
July 24, 2009: 10:17 AM ET

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Let's explore the five freedoms that Americans would lose under Obamacare:

1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan...

2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs...

3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage...

4. Freedom to keep your existing plan...

5. Freedom to choose your doctors...

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FACTS

America’s middle class deserves better. Here’s what America’s Affordable Health Choices Act means for you:

LOWER COSTS

  • No more co-pays or deductibles for preventive care
  • No more rate increases for pre-existing conditions, gender, or occupation
  • An annual cap on your out-of-pocket expenses
  • Group rates of a national pool if you buy your own plan
  • Guaranteed, affordable oral, hearing, and vision care for your kids
GREATER CHOICE

  • Keep your doctor, and your current plan, if you like them
  • More choice, with a high quality public health insurance option competing with private insurers
HIGHER QUALITY

  • You and your doctors make health care decisions — not insurance companies
  • More family doctors and nurses will enter the workforce, helping guarantee access
  • Mental health care must be covered
STABILITY & PEACE OF MIND

  • No more coverage denials for pre-existing conditions
  • No more lifetime limits on how much insurance companies will pay
  • No reason to ever make a job or life decision again based on health care coverage
more


Maybe CNN can spend a little more time reporting facts in the interest of Americans, not the RW and insurance companies.


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