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Issues: Health Insurance Reform
We are closer than ever to historic health insurance reform – reform that will extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans, provide security and stability to those who have health insurance, and shift power from insurance companies to consumers.
Benefits of Health Reform
Both the House and Senate versions of health insurance reform rest upon the following building blocks:
  • Insurance reforms to protect consumers from insurance company worst-practices – like denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions, capping total coverage, and dropping or watering down coverage when you get sick and need it most
  • Consumer protections that will restrict how much of your premium dollars insurance companies can spend on marketing, profits, and salaries
  • Creation of a health exchange to increase consumer choice and guarantee coverage
  • Affordable health options, with subsidies for working families and a hardship waiver
  • Tax credits to help small businesses afford coverage
  • Making preventive care completely free – with no co-payments or deductibles
  • Lowering the cost of health care for our seniors
  • Improving the quality and extending the life of Medicare
  • Ensuring that reform is not only fully paid for, but actually significantly reduces the federal deficit


Cathy

Apple Valley, MN

A single mother of two, Cathy went back to school to earn her teacher's license and has worked for the past three years as a special education and early childhood education teacher. When her school system was hit with budget cuts, Cathy lost her job, along with her health insurance.


Organizing for Health Care
  • At the end of 2009, both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed historic comprehensive health reform bills – something that has never before happened in the history of our country.
  • President Obama has called on Congress to keep pushing forward on health reform, and it's up to us to ensure they do. The stakes are too high to give up now.

    OFA kicked off our campaign for health reform in June of 2009. More than 2.5 million people volunteered through our campaign by signing a statement of support, making a phone call, attending an event, visiting a congressional office or going door to door.

    Some of the work volunteers have already done includes:

  • Volunteers organized 25,000 events in all 50 states in every Congressional District
  • Since August of 2009, supporters have made more than 1 million calls to Congress in support of reform
  • In one week in August, 65,000 OFA supporters visited their local Congressional offices