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With the establishment of a publicly accountable, unified health care financing system, you can never lose your health insurance - even if you lose your job, retire or become disabled. At ...
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All too often patients in our state have to change doctors because their physicians have retired early or moved out of state. There is also a severe nursing shortage (due to ...
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Medicare recipients will continue to be covered under Medicare unless Washington seeks federal waivers to cover them under a state system. However with the establishment of a unified health care financing ...
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A state-based unified health care financing system provides a crucial safety net for Washington small business owners because their personal health coverage will become affordable, comprehensive, and irrevocable. Such a plan ...
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As currently written, our 2002 initiative to the legislature mandates that the unified health care financing system will be financed by a dedicated fund separate from the general fund.
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No. Currently there isn't true competition in the HMO and private insurance system. In 1996, 80% of small businesses and 50% of large businesses offered only one health plan option to ...
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No. Under our current fragmented, patchwork system, millions of dollars goes to administrative costs that have nothing to do with providing health care, such advertising, marketing, lobbying, underwriting, treatment pre-authorization and ...
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No, providers have less control now than they will under a unified health care financing system. With a single, unified system, providers will base medical decisions on the best interest ofthe ...
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Under the current system, we, as taxpayers, eventually pay for people who need health care and can't pay for it themselves. Hospitals and doctors are prohibited by law from denying care ...
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First of all, it's important to realize that no plan in existence has a fool-proof plan to deal with rising expectations for health care and the rising cost of meeting these ...
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The U. S. spends more than 15% of its gross domestic product on health care, while other industrial countries spend 11% or less. (And they provide coverage for all their citizens, ...
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Health Care for All - Washington does not envision that the creation of a unified health care financing system should affect Group Health in any adverse way. Group Health has a ...
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We expect some employers and residents may wish to purchase private insurance to provide benefits, such as cosmetic surgery, orthodontia, etc. that may not be covered in the basic benefits package ...
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Not necessarily. All industrialized countries (except the U.S.) have publicly accountable, unified health care financing systems. And all (except the U.S.) guarantee health coverage for all their residents. However many different ...
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The provision of union health trusts are determined entirely by the employer/union contract and no state law can negate contract provisions. However, there will be a strong incentive for both employers ...
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Yes. There are many financing models which do not violate ERISA, so long as employers maintain the right to purchase private health insurance for their employees if they wish.
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We cannot guarantee that people won't move to Washington for the health care system. Realistically, however, people can only move to Washington if they have a good job, as our housing ...