Today, Rock the Vote and our allies in the youth movement stood with Speaker Pelosi and other members of Congress to announce the inclusion of a key provision in the final House of Representatives health reform bill: allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until the age of 27. This is a major victory and one that we fought hard to get included. A similar provision is in one of the Senate bills, and we are fighting to make sure it is in the final Senate bill as well.
(Quick civics lesson: the House if finalizing its version of health care reform legislation (taking three bills and making them into one) and the Senate is doing the same from two bills. After the House passes its version and the Senate passes its version, those two bills will be reconciled in a conference committee. Then both the House and Senate will vote on that version and the President will sign it into law. If all goes well, of course.)
The announcement was made this afternoon at a press conference in the Capitol, where more than 100 young Americans are talking to Senators and Representatives about our health care reform priorities. The young agenda calls for the following reforms in any final health care legislation:
- A cap on premiums for low-income Americans (up to 400% of the federal poverty level) set at no more than 8% of their income and strict limits on out-of-pocket expenses;
- A strong public option to ensure greater choice and competition;
- Affordable access to health insurance exchanges by allowing employees to get a voucher from their employer to purchase insurance in the exchange;
- Provisions that prohibit discrimination and denial of health insurance based on gender or pre-existing conditions;
- Increased funding for education and workforce training for young Americans;
- And while we believe a bill should make affordable, comprehensive coverage available to all Americans, if a high-deductible “Young Invincible” plan is part of the legislation, it must cover preventive and chronic care and limit out-of-pocket medical expenses.
Check out the full youth agenda here.
woooooot
now slap that public option in and we’re good
Have mercy on them Lord, they know not what they do. It seems we do not learn from history that price controls distort market information and lead to shortages when the price is set below what the law of supply and demand would price it (USSR, Carter Administration, Rent controlled apartments in NYC). Costs don’t go away because you refuse to pay them, any more than gravity goes away if you refuse to acknowledge it. You usually pay more in different ways, through taxes as well as prices, and by deterioration in quality when political processes replace economic process.
Fuck all of you fucking Democrats. Fuck OBAMA! Fuck that guy from the VMA’S ( British piece of shit ). Thats all by the way MTV – you don’t even play fucking music. Go kill yourself – Fuck free health care you fucking free loading peta bitches.
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opposition’s getting a little bit weirder every day
i’ve never been simultaneously prayed for and threatened
sick thing is that I have this strong feeling that y’all are the same guy or at least cousins