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I stand for real health care reform
To members of the U.S. House and Senate,
As small-business professionals, we see every day how the rising cost of health care is hurting our economy, including businesses like ours. With premiums rising, it is getting harder to cover employees and grow our businesses.
All too often, our companies and similar ones around the country are faced with the choice of either laying off employees or cutting health care coverage—an impossible choice that hurts both individuals and our economy.
Because of this, we are writing to urge support for creating a strong public health insurance option in health care reform this year. We badly need to bring health care costs under control, and a robust public health insurance option is central to making that happen.
In order to accomplish these crucial goals, we need a “R.E.A.L.” public health insurance option, one that meets a set of key criteria:
- Right away: Every day we wait on real reform, health care costs continue to rise. A strong public health insurance option right out of the gate is key. Proposals that would delay implementation for years—like the so-called “trigger”—would undermine the public option’s potential to help control costs and provide widespread care.
- Everyone: A strong public health insurance option should be broadly available, and a core piece of an overall reform plan that will help guarantee access to quality health care for everyone in America.
- Accountable: To ensure it's held to the highest standards of accountability, a public health insurance option must be publicly accountable and transparent to Congress and to voters.
- Large enough to lower costs: In order to truly control costs, a public health insurance option must be available nationwide with a broad network of providers so that it is competitive and able to bargain on a level playing field with private plans.
Proposals lacking these elements—like plan for small, regional, private “co-ops”—should not be considered adequate substitutes.
We strongly urge Congress to give Americans the choice of a real public health insurance plan as part of health care reform this year—one that is able to help cover all Americans and provide cost competition with private insurance companies. The creation of a nationwide public health insurance option will help lower costs market wide, something that we—and all small businesses—need to happen in order to play our role in rebuilding our economy and our communities.
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