Healthcare Reform: Reality Check

- You Can Keep Your Own Insurance


Reform isn’t about putting government in charge of your health insurance; it’s about putting you in charge of your health insurance. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.


- Reform Will Stop “Rationing” — Not Increase It


Reform will not lead to a “government takeover” of health care or “rationing.” On the contrary, reform will forbid many forms of rationing that are currently being used by insurance companies.


- Reform Will Benefit Small Business — Not Burden It


Health insurance reform will ease the burdens on small businesses and help level the playing field with big firms who pay much less to cover their employees on average.


- The “Euthanasia” Distortion on Help for Families


It’s a malicious myth that reform would encourage or even require euthanasia for seniors. On the contrary, reform empowers families and provides the option to get resources and accurate information.


- Your Medicare is Safe, and Stronger with Reform


Reform would simply eliminate waste and unnecessary subsidies to insurance companies, not cut Medicare benefits.


- Reform Won’t Add to the Deficit — it Will Bring Down Long Term Costs


President Obama has demanded that health insurance reform not add to the deficit, and has identified hundreds of billions of dollars in savings by eliminating unnecessary subsidies to insurance companies through Medicare. Skyrocketing health care costs pose the biggest threat to our fiscal stability in the long term under the status quo, and reform is imperative to bring down those costs.

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