If In The USA – Take Action : Critical Juncture for Health Care Reform

Stuart SchlossmanNational MS Society Related

Urge your U.S. Senators to Support Health Care Reform

We are at a critical juncture in the effort to overhaul and improve our nation’s health care system. MS activists played an important role in shaping the process, from release of the Society’s National Health Care Reform Principles to relentlessly making calls and sending emails to ensure that the legislation adequately supports those living with MS. As the Senate completes work on its health reform package, MS activists must rise to the occasion one more time. The Senate could vote as early as tomorrow–scroll down to email your Senators now. Urge your Senators to support the Senate health reform bill.
The Senate bill makes substantial investments that will improve the lives of people living with MS and other chronic conditions or disabilities. In line with the Society’s Principles, the Senate bill:
  • Extends health coverage to tens of millions of people who are currently uninsured and underinsured;
  • Works towards eliminating pre-existing condition discrimination;
  • Prohibits monetary lifetime benefit caps;
  • Restricts the use of annual limits to ensure access to needed care and beginning in 2014, completely prohibits monetary annual limits;
  • Helps make coverage affordable by limiting out-of-pocket costs, providing subsidies to lower-income families;
  • Increases certain providers’ reimbursement; and
  • Invests in community-based and long-term care.

People living with MS and other chronic conditions are particularly vulnerable in our current health care system. We need meaningful reform now.

Every vote counts. CLICK HERE, then Scroll down and take action now. Urge both of your Senators to support the health reform bill so that we can seize this historic opportunity and take a true step towards accessible, affordable, comprehensive, quality health care for all.

The information provided above, comes from The National MS Society

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