Congress is Threatening Your Healthcare - AGAIN

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Tell Congress to Stop Hurting Your Healthcare

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/590261171?z00m=24668 & z00m=24668 & ltl=11\

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There's a bill in Congress that's received scant attention, but it

could undermine efforts around the country to make health insurance

more affordable and more widely available.

 

Click here to take action!

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/590261171?z00m=24668 & z00m=24668 & ltl=11\

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Congress is trying to create a " new " kind of federal health insurance

called Association Health Plans. But AHPs are really healthcare that

hurts. AHPs mean no protection, no guarantee and no limits on price.

They will be exempt from health and consumer protection laws you have

in your state. We need to do something about healthcare, but AHPs will

make things worse.

 

* They will be able to raise your rates, as much as and as often

as they want. You could face frequent rate hikes because you get sick

and file a claim.

* They will take away your right to appeal. Right now, in most

states, you have the right to appeal if health insurers refuse to pay

your bill, but you won't with AHPs.

* They may not be there to pay your claims. You could get stuck

with the bills, because AHPs won't have to keep enough money in the

bank to cover your medical expenses.

 

Only you can stop them. Protect Your Healthcare, a broad alliance that

includes the American Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO, the

American Nurses Association and the National Partnership for Women and

Families, is committed to fighting AHPs - and they need your voice now.

 

Take action today! Sign this petition to stop Congress from creating

AHPs - healthcare that hurts.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/590261171?z00m=24668 & z00m=24668 & ltl=11\

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can

change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - -

Margaret Mead

 

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question:

is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience

asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must

take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but

one must take it simply because it is right -- Martin Luther King Jr.