Yesterday in Racine, working families spoke up and said NO to the House of Representatives repealing the new health care law. Congressional Republicans - who have high quality, tax-payer funded healthcare - want to roll back the new health care reforms which are helping millions of Americans everyday.
Labor activists and concerned citizens gathered outside of Congressman Paul Ryan’s office in downtown Racine to express their alarm over the possible repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act. Many had personal stories about how they or a loved one have been helped by health care reform.
Constituents later met with Rep. Ryan’s staff to officially encourage the Congressman and the House of Representatives to start focusing on job creation and stop playing political games with health care. “Health care is a right for every American. Repealing the advances that have been made is not the way to go forward. Politicians must put aside their partisan differences and work together on improving the current legislation so that the medical system can work for all of us,” stated Bob Haase, Iron workers Local 8 retiree who was on hand to show his support for health care.
Many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act are already in place. Here are some of the ways in which health care reform is helping Wisconsin’s working families:
• Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions and young people can stay on their parents’ policies until age 26.
• Insurance companies can’t drop people from coverage when they become sick or put a lifetime cap on benefits.
• Insurance companies must cover preventive care such as mammograms, annual physicals and cancer screenings without deductibles or co-pays.
• For Medicare recipients, the new law will eventually close the donut hole, the gap in coverage when seniors must pay full price for their needed medications and it has already provided a $250 prescription drug rebate for needed medication.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office repealing the Affordable Care Act would threaten the lives of 30,000 people who could die needlessly without it, and it would add $230 billion to the Federal deficit.
“Many Wisconsinites depend on the new provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Instead of focusing on creating jobs, politicians are choosing to go after health insurance reform which is a historic first step in guaranteeing all Americans quality health care. The law is not perfect, but like the original Social Security bill and virtually every other great program in our history, it is an important start to build upon,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO.
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Affiliates who participated in the action included Iron workers Local 8, SEIU Health Care Wisconsin, SEIU Wisconsin State Council, UAW local 180 and UAW local 1866. The event was co-sponsored by the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Community for Change, Health care for American Now and the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans.
(Top Photo: Working families rally in support of health care outside of Rep. Paul Ryan's office. Photo Credit: Justin Geiger. Middle right photo: Bob Haase, Ironworker Local 8 retiree with Gary Mikolajczyk, UAW 1866 retiree. Photo Credit: Karen Hickey. Bottom Right Photo: Activists say NO to the repeal of health care in Racine. Photo Credit: Justin Geiger.)
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