Universal Healthcare
- It delivers on every provision of the Patient Bill of Rights that Bill Clinton unsuccessfully tried to get passed, including making it illegal to deny coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and capping out of pocket expenses when people get sick (so people don’t go in to bankruptcy after getting ill).
- Shifts medical system’s focus to preventative care by covering the cost of early warning tests so our doctors find diseases before they are too advanced -
- avoids larger medical expenses down the road and requires the largest and richest American companies to provides insurance for all their employees.
- Attempted to lower health care costs by forcing all Americans to have medical insurance and pay their fair share so the system is more efficient while providing tax credits to help the poor and small businesses afford this coverage.
- It increased competition by creating marketplace exchanges to make it easier for small businesses and those without insurance to shop and compare plans.
- Funded co-ops who can offer competitive insurance plans and provide further competition for insurance companies.
- Allowed insurance companies to offer plans across state borders further increasing the supply of competitive plans.
- Perhaps most importantly, it set up an independent commission of doctors and medical experts to identify and root out medical system waste, fraud, and abuse and includes many pieces of reform that will reduce the most wasteful medical system practices.