Real Engagement On Health Care Reform
Policymakers trying to enact health care reform, says Public Agenda chairman and co-founder Daniel Yankelovich, need to remember that the public is in an early stage of considering what should be done. But, he notes, as people learn more about the options and tradeoffs, they are more open to change than many experts assume. Yankelovich says the issue can move forward if the public is helped to gain three insights: on individual vulnerability under the current system, on the real cost of unreformed health care, and on the risk to the nation's finances. Click here to learn more.
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There is a huge gap in health insurance availability and affordability for US citizens between the ages of 60-65! Trying to navigate through this quagmire is a nightmare for a 62 year old woman who has always been insured by her employer and is a proactive, healthy senior. I have learned, through the last 6 months of mental anguish and time consuming calls, that I am not alone in this regard. HIPAA is obviously an option - and, a very expensive option! Appealing is an option - and consumes the precious tme of our physicians (if they cooperate) and takes them away from what they should be doing - helping us to stay active and healthy! I have become aware of the NUMEROUS paid "health consultants" whose goal is to get the most money out of retired folks living on fixed incomes that they can get. And, I have become aware of health insurance companies (the biggest) who do not care if you have been proactive and healthy. They want to make sure you are paying through the nose in a reactive mode. It is a travesty in our country, a demoralizing statement to those of us who have worked hard our entire lives, and a tremendous disappointment to those of us in our senior years who have always counted on our own success to allow us some sense of comfort in our retirement years. I, personally, think all citizens between 60-65 should join together and do a class action suit against all of the major health insurance companies to wake them up. And, this is a person who has never supported legal action to create change.
I think that there should be some type of availability from medicare for dependents that have not reached the age of 65 but who have to rely upon cobra from their spouses insurance to have insurance. The cobra cost as much as buying a sandy land farm and then it is just a 80-20 plan. They should be able to buy into medicare
and pay what the senators and representives have to pay? That would help Americans get on with our lives and not depend on all our savings to pay for insurance!!
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