It’s more than pre-existing conditions. It’s kids staying on their parents plans, it’s drugs for seniors, it’s better care in hospitals, it’s Medicaid for 10+ million people. That’s all unrelated to the mandate.
It’s free flu shots. It’s free birth control. It’s menu labeling. It’s payments for low-income seniors. It’s student loan payments. It’s health care centers in rural areas.
It’s reducing hospital acquired infections. It’s health care for children. It’s paying primary care doctors. It’s providing psychiatric treatment to people in distress. It’s paying for medical care over profits.
It’s families not going bankrupt from a diagnosis. It’s women not paying more for insurance. It’s home care services for people who would otherwise be in nursing homes. It’s most of Medicare payments.
It’s paying for the Indian Health Service. It’s reducing fraud in Medicare. It’s training people how to take care of people dementia. It’s knowing prices in Medicare. It’s scholarships for doctors and nurses to work in rural areas.
It’s paying for the cancer treatment that the people of Libby Montana got from asbestos poisoning. It’s annual visits for Medicare. It’s helping low-income widows pay for Medicare. It’s encouraging inventing new drugs.
Its paying for rural hospitals. It’s letting veterans get Medicare sooner. It’s funding abstinence education for goodness sakes. It’s funding aging resource centers. It’s billions of dollars to improve state IT systems.
Those are all I can think of off the top of my head after a very exhausting evening but I know there are so many more things. This is life or death for more people than we’re ever touched by the individual mandate.
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Since this thread is getting attention! Today is the last day to buy health insurance! I love helping people! Please let me help you or anyone you find who hasn’t brought coverage!
