From the National Patient Advocate Foundation:
President Obama convened a bipartisan health care reform summit with 40 Members of Congress on February 25th. Discussion topics included: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit and expanding coverage. National Patient Advocate Foundation sent a letter to summit participants which is available at www.npaf.org.
As you know, Congress has been hard at work for more than a year now on comprehensive health insurance reform legislation. The House and Senate have both passed health insurance reform legislation in their respective chambers that will expand health insurance coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and provide patients with real protections against preexisting conditions and medical bankruptcy.
NPAF is hopeful that policy agreement will triumph over partisan politics in the days to come. All parties, Democrats, Republicans and Independents need to come to the table now to assure that health care reform is accomplished, and that the final bill contains insurance reforms that are critically important to patients. NPAF is asking members of both the House and Senate to include the following insurance reform features in any health insurance reform legislation:
- Eliminate preexisting condition exclusions and waiting periods for individuals in every health insurance market no later than 2013;
- Create and adequately fund a transitional high-risk pool until preexisting conditions and waiting periods are eliminated entirely;
- Completely eliminate annual, monthly, and lifetime limits on coverage, whether on dollar value, services or disease specific; and
- Cap out-of-pocket spending so that health insurance coverage is affordable for all patients.
We thank you for your outreach to your Members of Congress over the last several months sharing this important message but the work is not done! National Patient Advocate Foundation needs you to share the message below immediately with your Representative in the House and your two U.S. Senators. Please add your voice to the discussion and encourage your friends and family to do the same!
Click here to send a letter to your elected officials about this important issue.
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