What's Important to You in Healthcare Reform?
Started by: Smithee 
Aug 24, 2009 Total Views: 3,171 Total Votes: 4,128
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Maintain coverage when you lose or change your job
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 +254 pts |
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Focus on preventing illness instead of just treating illness
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+232 pts |
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Lower cost of health insurance (what you pay if you have insurance)
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+212 pts |
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Let me keep my plan if I like it
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+204 pts |
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Improve patient safety and quality of care
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+203 pts |
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Remove pre-existing conditions as an excuse to deny coverage
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+183 pts |
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Create an Insurance Exchange where people can compare and shop for plans
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+149 pts |
8. |
Protect people from bankruptcy as a result of medical bills (over 50% of US bankruptcies are related to medical bills)
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+137 pts |
9. |
Lower cost of procedures (what the providers charge)
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+134 pts |
10. |
Guarantee choice of doctors and health plans
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+130 pts |
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Introduce a public option anyone can sign up for if they want to
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+105 pts |
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Financing the public plan by taxing an additional 1% on money earned over $280,000 / year
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+26 pts |
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Not forcing the damn thing down my throat
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+3 pts |
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Cut Spending, Create Jobs & Tax Cuts First
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Jobs First, Healthcare Later, MUCH later
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-2 pts |
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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
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-2 pts |
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Not shoving this multi-trillion dollar thing up my a@@!!
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-4 pts |
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How about we get unemployment down first
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-4 pts |
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Try worrying about something else for a change
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-4 pts |
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Require people to buy insurance (and offer subsidies to people who can't afford it)
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-41 pts |
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Free caramel macchiatos for Consumerism Commentary subscribers
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-47 pts |
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Getting the government out of it entirely - less than now.
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-53 pts |
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Financing the overall reform by taxing an additional 1% on money earned over $280,000 per year.
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-73 pts |
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Endorsements by industry groups
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-198 pts |
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