Here is how Democrats can take the wind out of the various lawsuits against mandates to buy (under)insurance and win in 2010 and 2012, surprising everybody.
We need to change the HCR from underinsurance to real insurance.
Curative care refers to treatment and therapies provided to a patient with an intent to improve symptoms or cure the patient's medical problem.
Write your Senators and Congressmen and ask that the Health Care bill be amended to put ALL Basic Curative Care IN the BASIC packages FOR BOTH GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL PLANS and then put all the expensive add-ons in the trade up packages, so that people with a serious illness can get basic Curative Care without having to pay extra money or being dumped,
That, I guarantee, would take the wind out of their sails!
This is crucially important and its the first thing my European friends have brought up about how their systems would do it differently. That would mean that someone who was paying, say, $250 a month for the basic package wouldn't get hit with huge extra bills when they got sick, only if they wanted to get "extras" that would not be essential if they were sick, just extras. This is the only civilized way to do this.
What say? Make CURATIVE CARE included, at no extra cost in the basic package, never an extra, so people would know that as long as they paid the basic bill, they wouldn't be dumped or find that they could not afford drugs to stay alive in the moment when they needed care the most, leaving them dead. This change would also save the government money on the put of pocket costs, because fewer of them would end up going over the ceiling and have to be paid out of taxpayer money. This could save billions of dollars.
And while we are at it, (not necessary to include this in the poll, though) lets get rid of the four year delay and the six month waiting period (!) for the high risk pool. I am sure that huge numbers of Americans have already signed up but asking them to wait when many have already gone long periods without care is criminal since many of them cannot go six months without medical care. They will die.