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The recently passed House version of health care (H.R. 3962) will cut Medicare for seniors, increase profits for insurance companies and impose a cost burden on the poorest and illiterate citizens. The Congressonal Budget Office (CBO) estimates the Act's net cost at $894 billion over 10 years. However, those net costs would be offset by the combination of other spending changes, which CBO estimates would save $426 billion, and receipts resulting from the income tax surcharge on high-income individuals and other provisions, which JCT and CBO estimate would increase federal revenues by $572 billion over that period. However, some savings come from cuts in Medicare. The American Health Care Associaton (AHCA), reports that the Act includes $23.9 billion in Medicare cuts and when combined with the $12 billion in cuts that went into effect on October 1, makes Medicare unsustainable and therefore detrimental to the nation's seniors. Some income is expected to come from requiring the uninsured to purchase overage insurance and imposing penalties on the most illiterate and underpaid of the Nations citizens who cannot afford coverage. According to the National Coalition on Health Care, "it is conceivable that by next year, 57 to 60 million Americans will be uninsured." Like far too many legislative acts, H.R. 3962 falls most heavily on the poor and illiterate who are essentially disenfranchised from the political process. It is that group that will be victimized by health care reform if the provision requiring people to purchase insurance eventually becomes law without a competitive public option to keep prices low. According to the National Right to Read Foundation, 42 million adult Americans can not read and 50 million can only read at the 4th or 5th grade level. Further, one out of every four teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, one out of every four has the equivalent or less than an eighth grade education. Further, the number of functionally illiterate adults is increasing by approximately two and one quarter million persons each year. This number includes nearly 1 million young people who drop out of school before graduation, 400,000 legal immigrants, 100,000 refugees, and 800,000 illegal immigrants, and 20 percent of all high school graduates. An additional 237 billion dollars a year in unrealized earnings is forfeited by people who lack such basic reading skills, according to Literacy Volunteers of America. These are the people, who cannot afford insurance now, and who will be forced to purchase insurance from the private sector under H.R. 3962. Forcing the poor and illiterate to purchase health care, under penalty of law, is unconscionable. Some of the lower income individuals would be covered by an expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor. In this case, adults up to 150 percent of poverty - individuals making up to $16,245 and a family of four up to $33,075 - would, in theory, be covered. This would add 15 million to Medicaid. That number is far below the number of poor and illiterate that populate our states. Further, Medicaid is a pig-in-a poke since Governors control the percent of people enrolled in Medicaid and in tight economic situations they simply cut. Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons cut Medicaid payments during the H1N1 epidemic to hospitals by 5% across the board, and some physicians, especially pediatricians specializing in orthopedics, urology and cancer, saw their Medicaid payments reduced by 41%. Gibbons has also proposed to eliminate Medicaid coverage for low-income pregnant mothers. The state has already reduced personal-care assistance to the elderly and disabled. He has capped dental benefits under the state's SCHIP program at $600 a year, and eliminated orthodontics and vision coverage. Further, Gibbons has capped enrollment at 25,000 for the program, which already has 23,000 enrollees and pending applications for 7,000 children. The cuts mean $21 million less in Medicaid funding for the State's public hospital: The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas,. The cuts add to the expected loss of $51 million, about 10% of the hospital's net revenue, for uncompensated care. The Medical Center has already stopped accepting new patients at the outpatient oncology clinic, and has canceled a contract for outpatient dialysis. It also ended routine prenatal care, thus leaving 600 women to find other providers, and it discouraged women with high-risk pregnancies from using the hospital by closing a unit that was losing more than $2 million a year. Congresswoman Dina Titus, (D. Nev.), attempted to put a positive spin on H.R. 3962 by arguing that the Act, will ban insurance industry practices of discriminating against those with preexisting conditions or withdrawing coverage for people when they get sick. In addition, the legislation will close the so-called donut hole that forces nearly 13,000 seniors in her district to pay high out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs. Further, the congressional version, Titus argues, eliminates co-pays for preventive services and "gender rating" by insurance companies. Gender rating is particularly onerous and has led to women paying up to 48 percent more in premium costs than men for coverage through the market place. One particularly interesting provision of the act ends the insurance industry's exemption from anti-trust laws that has allowed them to stifle competition. Further, there is a grant program to encourage states to implement alternatives to traditional malpractice litigation. The Act also permits states to enter into agreements to allow for the sale of insurance across state lines. The House bill does address concerns expressed by businesses in Southern Nevada. Specifically, the Act reduces or eliminates surcharges businesses currently pay for insurance. Further, a Titus amendment allows more small businesses to enter into the Health Insurance Exchange to leverage their purchasing power to get lower rates. None of these provisions, however, solve the problem of enriching the insurance industry at the expense of the poor and illiterate. House minority leader, John Boehner, R., Ohio, voted nay on the legislation but not because it disenfranchised the poor. He simply argues that any democratic proposed health care will increase costs, add to the skyrocketing debt , destroy jobs, and cut seniors' Medicare benefits. To far too many in congress dollars are more important than meeting the health care demands of the nations citizens. Boehner, for example voted nay on H.R. 3962, because he is paid to do so by the insurance and health professionals. His nay vote cost the insurance and health care industry in excess of $202,000 in "contributions." Titus, who received $6,000 from the American Health Care Associaton (AHCA), did vote yea in-spite of AHCA's position, correctly, that HR. 3962 will make Medicare unsustainable and therefore detrimental to the nation's seniors. Fundamentally, most Republicans as represented by Boehner are protecting the insurance industry from economic damage. Democrats, as represented by Titus, appear to feel that anything is better than nothing. As a result, the poor will be poorer and Medicare for seniors will be less and healthcare will remain essentially the same: the domain of a profit motivated insurance industry. Most, but not all, of the inequities, can be helped by a public option or, even better, a single payer system. These provisions seem less and less likely as politicians angle for ways to suck the poor and illiterate dry, cut Medicare at the federal level, and transfer inevitable cuts in Medicaid to the cash starved Governors. Maybe something better will happen as the House version goes to the Senate for consideration. According to Senator Harry Reid, D., Nev., the next step in the health reform process is to "find middle-ground that will create competition to make health care more affordable for all Nevadans." Unfortunately, there is no middle ground when it comes to passing the burden on health care to the illiterate, poor, and disenfranchised. See more at: American Health Care Association SOS Save our SeniorsDina Titus, D., Nev., Congrerssonal Budget Office on H.R. 3962 Harry Reid., D., Nev: Reid Outlines Next Step.John Boehner, R., Ohio, National Coalition on Health CareNational Right to Read Foundation.Open Congress: John BoehnerOpen Congress: HR 3962 Affordable Health Care for America ActOpenSecrets: John Boehner OpenSecrets: Dina Titus |
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