Subject: [big campaign] FW: ALERT: GOP Health Plan Makes People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Care
From: Adam Jentleson <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:40:45 -0400
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FYI -- our response to the "new" GOP health care plan released today.

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May 20, 2009
ALERT: GOP Health Plan Makes People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Care
Just like McCain's plan, the new GOP plan would make people lose the health care they have now by dismantling the employer-based system.

 *   Recycling ideas from the McCain plan that voters soundly rejected in November<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=21612&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A>, the "new" GOP plan<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=21613&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A> would remove the main tax incentive that employers have for providing care to their employees.

The new GOP plan replaces the coverage people have with an insufficient tax subsidy that doesn't even cover half of the average family's health care premiums.

 *   The $5,700 tax subsidy<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=21614&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A> for families proposed in the Republican plan is less than half of the $12,680 that the average American family paid for health care in 2008<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=21615&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A>.

Currently in the individual market, insurance companies can force people with pre-existing conditions to pay exorbitant rates or even deny them care.

 *   If you are one of the 56 million Americans with a pre-existing condition<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=5858&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A> - like high blood pressure, hay fever or diabetes - insurance companies can force you to pay exorbitant rates or even deny you care on the individual market.

Unlike McCain, the GOP plan recognizes that the individual market has severe problems-but the solutions they propose are far too weak to fix them.

 *   Unlike past conservative proposals, the GOP plan includes an insurance exchange - but it is far too weak to address the severe problems with the individual market.

 *   In addition to the insufficient tax credit, the GOP plan does not provide incentives for insurance companies to join the state exchanges, and it does not regulate companies that decide not to join.

 *   In short, their fix fails - and individuals are left at risk of higher prices, being denied care or being forced to pay exorbitant rates if they happen to be one of the 56 million Americans with a pre-existing condition<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=5858&elq=8074F0F07E1847FAAF9EE2D1F2415A0A> like high blood pressure, hay fever or diabetes.

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