Your Family's Health Depends on Health Care Reform
“Your family’s health depends on the health of everyone.”
The advantages of health care reform have been lost in the politics and arguments about the Health Care Bill. Here are some advantages :
Productivity. We would have happier and more productive citizens. Most people receive health care insurance from their employer. There is a good reason for that. Healthy people are happier, perform better, are less likely to be hurt on the job, and miss fewer days of work Offering healthcare benefits lets companies attract and retain better-qualified employees, shows that management cares about the workers, and is a great morale builder. Couldn’t the same principles work on a national level?
Jobs. It would create job openings. One great way to create jobs would be to provide health benefits to those who wish to retire early. There are about 45 million baby boomers who are now between 55 and 65. Many of them have the resources to retire early but feel they must continue working to retain their health care benefits. Health care reform would let them retire early, opening up more jobs.
Bankruptcies could be reduced by better health coverage. A Harvard study found that about 50% of all bankruptcies in the United States are caused by illness and unpaid medical bills. Bankruptcies affect everyone because the health providers, banks, businesses, and credit card companies who lose money in the bankruptcy pass the cost on to the rest of us. Bankruptcies were a big factor in our recent housing crisis that negatively affected us all.
Reduced Insurance Rates: The health care bill, as passed, requires that 80% of the premiums collected by insurance companies be paid back in benefits. Currently, the overhead for private insurance companies ranges from 15% to 35%. Those companies with high overheads will have to find ways to reduce their rates or be replaced by the more efficient companies. Companies that pay back less than 80% will have to give refunds to their policy holders at the end of the year.
Healthier Americans. Your family’s health depends on the health of everyone. Unless you are a hermit, you will likely come into contact with thousands of people during this next winter. People without health care are less likely to receive immunizations and are much more likely to have untreated communicable diseases. This is particularly important since a Swine Flu epidemic is a possibility.
The advantages of health care reform are obvious to those with no health insurance. Remember, except for the Grace of God, that could be you.
Tags: Early Retirement, H.R. 3200, Health Care Reform, insurance overhead, Job Creation, Reducing Bankruptcies, Reducing insurance rates
Posted on August 17th, 2013 at 6:03 am
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