I received this email from Jim Reed’s campaign:
Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision on the Affordable Care Act. It is truly a historic moment for the health of our friends and families, our children and our most vulnerable.
The decision ensures that health care will be more accessible than ever before. For our young Americans, who will be able to stay covered on their parent’s plans until age 26; and those who are ill or who have longstanding age-related health issues, who now cannot be denied coverage or charged unreasonably more due to pre-existing conditions.
Neither will citizens lose coverage at their most vulnerable moments, as lifetime or yearly limits (caps) on medical expenses cannot be imposed. Everyone already covered can keep their insurance and doctors as they currently are.
Going forward, it will be possible for everyone to obtain affordable coverage and millions of additional citizens will be insured, including preventive care and savings on prescription medications, all necessary to lead healthier lives.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, we will be able to make adjustments as needed in the law to improve it further.
In addition, Congress will be free to move forward and focus on the future. Americans need and deserve leadership that will now turn their attention toward jobs and the economy, reducing the deficit responsibly, and maintaining important investments in education, clean energy, innovation and infrastructure.
Jim Reed is an attorney and ranch owner in Fall River Mills who was nominated in June for California’s Congressional District 1. Jim Reed is committed to ending the gridlock in Washington, creating jobs and solving the daunting debt dilemma. Jim will fight to make our tax system fair for everybody, not just the wealthy, while preserving Social Security and Medicare for our seniors.
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Although I wish the progressive caucus would have kept their word and forced a public option the ACA is a very good first step in reigning in an out of control industry. My major problem isn’t with the law itself but rather with the lack of fight for a single payer program from Obama administration and the democratic party, which would have led to a public option as a compromise. Instead we had a backroom deal made before the debate even started that took the public option off the table and had single payer advocates arrested.
Medicare for All or Health Care For All in California (SB 810) is the answer if we want to create jobs, health care for all, bring costs down, and promote innovation/ entrepreneurship. The system in place is an albatross around the necks of American small business’s.
Ben, is Leno’s bill (SB810) just sitting now? it is listed on Leginfo as inactive. It was introduced in 2011, which means It goes away if not passed this year, which it can’t be now, I believe. So some similar bill will need to be introduced next year.
Ben and Steve, I believe the upholding of the personal mandate will allow California to reintroduce something akin to SB810. And it will go quick, even helping cities like Stockton to recover from their morass.
Single payer in California, here we come!
Steve,
Here is the story with SB 810. It has been passed twice basically along party lines only to vetoed by Arnold. This year once again it was a party line vote except one difference, 4 democrats abstained from the vote and it failed by two votes. I don’t think the democratic leadership have any intention of passing such a bill when it could actually become law.
Now that the Supreme Court has decided that the Affordable HealthCare Act is constitutional the fight to get a system that works for everyont is really just beginning. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation have said that Americans will revisit health care reform again and again until a single payer system is in place. If we don’t want to take another 40 to 60 years to get the job done it’s imperative that we replace Republicans/teas and blue dog Dems with progressive, forward thinking representatives who will get us where we need to be faster.
Health care reform can’t happen soon enough for fast enough for many Americans and it’s time to get the job done.