11 Reasons We Need the Public Option in Health Care

Here are 11 Public Option FACTS via Rant.com:

1. If you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it.
2. If you like your current doctors, you can keep them.
3. Insurance companies will be prohibited from denying you coverage because of your medical history.
4. Insurance companies will be prohibited from dropping your coverage if you get sick.
5. Insurance companies will be prohibited from reducing your coverage if you get sick.
6. Insurance companies will no longer be allowed to place a cap on the amount of money you may receive from your illness, no yearly cap allowed, no lifetime cap allowed.
7. The government will place a limit on a citizen’s out-of-pocket expenses.
8. Insurance companies will be required to cover all check-ups and preventive care.
9. The government insurance plan will NOT add to the US deficit and will actually save money in the long run.
10. The US is the only large industrialized country left in the world that doesn’t provide its population with a government alternative health care option.
11. The most important thing for you to realize about the Public Option and the Obama health plan? It’s going to save you money. Yes, even if you were to end up getting taxed for it, it is STILL going to cost you LESS than you’re paying now for health insurance!

More info via Rant.com, Whitehouse.gov, and on Senate Finance, and on Facts About Reform.

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