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Report touts health care reform for Nebraska

July 22, 2009 By Matt Kelley

A report from a national nonprofit group that bills itself as a “nonpartisan organization for health care consumers” examines health care reform legislation pending in Congress. Families U-S-A executive director Ron Pollack says the measure would help thousands of Nebraskans who are currently without health care coverage.

He says the report shows 112,000 Nebraskans would gain coverage under the legislation’s first year of implementation in 2013. By the year 2019, he says ultimately 180,000 Nebraskans will have gained coverage by the bill.

Nearly 50-million Americans are currently without health care coverage. Pollack believes 37-million would gain coverage by 2019 under the proposed bill. Pollack says the measure would also lower the premiums paid by people that currently have health care coverage.

“It will do so by reducing the so-called ‘hidden health tax’ that gets tacked onto insurance premiums to pay for the care received by the uninsured,” Pollack said. “That hidden surcharge averaged $1,017 for family coverage in 2008.”

The Families U.S.A. report is based on data provided by the Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office. The bill before the House is believed to carry a $1.5 trillion price tag and would require all individuals to have health insurance and all employers to provide it. The poor would get subsidies to buy insurance and insurers would be barred from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

www.familiesusa.org


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