FAQ on the Current Healthcare Bill

FAQ:

How will this bill effect my life?

If you do not now have health insurance, this bill will guarantee to you the ability to get it. It will do this by providing subsidies for those who can not afford to by health care now, and by banning insurance companies from refusing to support people because of pre-existing conditions.

If you now have health insurance, this bill will lower the cost of the insurance. It will do this through simultaneously cutting inefficiencies in the system and introducing a public option that will compete with dominate private industry insurance.

What is the “public option”?

Exactly what it sounds like, a “public option” is a health care plan that would be provided by the government, not by a private insurance company. Membership in this plan would not be mandatory. The plan would have to accept anyone who wanted to join the plan, regardless of previous medical conditions.

If major health care reform is enacted, will I be able to keep my doctor?

Yes, under this bill, and almost every other discussed in Congress, you will be able to continue current medical coverage if you are satisfied with it.

What are the end of life provisions in the bill?

This bill mandates that if you would like to talk to your doctor about the kind of care that you want at the end of your life, then insurance will cover that. This provision does nothing else. It does not mandate meetings, or support euthanasia.

Will this bill allow the government to leave the elderly to die, or put them to death?

No, absolutely not. This bill will do absolutely nothing like that.

Will citizens who are deemed not worthwhile to society be denied medical coverage, or be put to death?

No. This bill guarantees medical insurance to citizens of every age, ethnicity, intellect, political persuasion, and mental state. No one will have to justify their societal worth to the government before receiving treatment.