Speaker Pelosi Highlights Affordable Health Care for America Act Supporters
The American Medical Association (AMA), American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), and AARP announced support for the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
In their letter announcing support for the health reform legislation, the American Medical Association highlighted the following “essential elements”:
Expanding coverage: H.R. 3962 will raise the percentage of legal, non-elderly residents with insurance coverage from 83 percent to 96 percent.
Insurance market reforms: The legislation eliminates pre-existing condition exclusions and lifetime limits on total spending, does not allow insurers to vary premiums based on health status, and expands choice and access to coverage for those who are self-insured or employed by small businesses.
Patient-physician decision making: Expanded coverage and choice will empower patient and physician decision making. H.R. 3962 is consistent with our principles of pluralism, freedom of choice, freedom of physician practice, and universal access.
Investments in quality, prevention, and wellness: The legislation provides additional resources to achieve these goals and, importantly, treats quality improvement as an investment in our nation’s health care system.
AARP on their endorsement:
Today AARP announced its endorsement of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) and the accompanying Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act (H.R. 3961). The Association’s support follows nearly two years of work with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to craft a health care reform plan that meets the needs of AARP’s nearly 40 million members and all older Americans. Among those needs are reforms that strictly curb insurance companies’ discrimination against older Americans and Medicare improvements that strengthen benefits while protecting the program for future generations.
“We started this debate more than two years ago with the twin goals of making coverage affordable to our younger members and protecting Medicare for seniors,” said AARP CEO Barry Rand. “We’ve read the Affordable Health Care for America Act and we can say with confidence that it meets those goals with improved benefits for people in Medicare and needed health insurance market reforms to help ensure every American can purchase affordable health coverage.”
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) on their support:
The House bill takes a number of steps to improve health care for cancer patients and their families by refocusing the system to emphasize prevention, ending the practice of denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions, limiting the cost burden on families by providing care that covers more and costs less and emphasizing patients’ quality of life.
They join the following groups representing millions of Americans in support of the House legislation to reduce health care costs, protect and increase consumers’ choices, and guarantee access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans:
AARP
Advocates for Youth
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
AIDS Action Council
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDS Institute
Alliance for Children and Families
Alliance for Retired Americans
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
American Association of Health and Disability
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American Association of Pastoral Counselors
American Art Therapy Association
American Cancer Society – Cancer Action Network
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Physicians
American College of Surgeons
American Counseling Association
American Diabetes Association
American Gastroenterological Association
American Group Psychotherapy Association
American Heart Association – American Stroke Association
American Medical Association
American Medical Student Association
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Nurses Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
American Psychotherapy Association
American Public Health Association
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Arc of the United States
Association for the Advancement of Psychology
Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare
Association for Community Affiliated Plans
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Association of American Medical Colleges
Beyond the Divide
Black Youth Vote
California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB)
Campaign for America’s Future
Campus Progress
Center for Clinical Social Work/ABE
Center for Community Change
Center for Health Care Policy, Research and Analysis
Center for Rural Affairs
Cerebral Palsy Association of Ohio
Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Children Now
Children’s Partnership
Child Welfare League of America
Choice USA
Clinical Social Work Association
Clinical Social Work Guild 49, OPEIU
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
Consumers Union
Corporation for Supportive Housing
CWA
Delta Center for Independent Living
Democracy for America
Demos
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Doctors for America
Easter Seals
Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action
Ecu-Health Care, Inc
Families USA
Family Voices
Federation of American Hospitals
Forward Montana
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Generational Alliance
Health Access California
Health Care For All
Health Care for America NOW
Health Care for America NOW – Southern Oregon Coalition
Herndon Alliance
HIV Medicine Association
Leadership Council of Aging Organizations
Main Street Alliance
Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative
Medicare Rights Center
Mental Health America
MichUHCAN (Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network)
MoveOn.org Political Action
NAACP
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders-ANAD
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
National Breast Cancer Coalition
National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Disability Rights Network
National Education Association (NEA)
National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
National Foundation for Mental Health
National PACE Association
National Patient Advocate Foundation
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
New Jersey Citizen Action
New Mexico Voices for Children
NWO/UHCAN
NYC for Change
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
PHI – Health Care for Health Care Workers
ProgressOhio
Rock the Vote
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Small Business Majority
Suicide Prevention Action Network USA, a Division of AFSP
Toledo Area Jobs with Justice Coalition
Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc,
UAW
Union for Reform Judaism
United Cerebral Palsy
United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society
United Neighborhood Centers of America
United Spinal Association
United Steel Workers
Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio – UHCAN Ohio
USAction
U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG)
U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Utah Health Policy Project
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Virginia Organizing Project
Voto Latino
Washington Community Action Network
Witness Justice
Young Democrats of America
Young Invincibles
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Topics: AARP, ACS CAN, Affordable Health Care for America Act, AMA, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Medical Association, Governance, health care, health care reform, Speaker Pelosi, U.S., United States
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