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Health Care Reform is a high
priority of the Obama Administration and has considerable support in the
United States Congress. During the 2008 debates, President Obama stated
he supported universal health care for children but adults would have
something significantly less.
Obama also stated health care would be available to all except
undocumented Hispanics. Act Arizona believes the health of all persons
living in the United States contributes to the well being of all
Americans. Having anyone sick in an American community has an adverse
impact on the entire community.
Recent movement on Capitol Hill and by major health-care players
suggests consensus is growing for action this year, but deep rifts
remain over how to pay for expanded coverage and whether a new
government-sponsored program should be offered to people who have
trouble buying private insurance. A coalition of hospitals, insurers,
employers, physicians, drug makers and consumers released a report March
27 endorsing a set of policy changes that could cut in half the number
of uninsured Americans.
Most notably, the group, known as the Health Reform Dialogue, calls for
creating an "individual mandate" that would require every American to
have some type of health coverage. Anyone who cannot afford insurance
would be eligible for subsidies or expanded government programs such as
Medicaid. "We should seek to ensure coverage for all," the group
concluded after six months of private, professionally facilitated
negotiations.
Whatever federal program is approved in Washington, Act Arizona is
committed to off set all individual costs to achieve free health care
for all living in Arizona. |
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Act Arizona will establish a health insurance entity to
subsidize Arizona health insurance companies providing coverage in
Arizona.
All fees including health insurance premiums, co-pays and required
Medicare's out of pocket "donut" fees will be subsidized from revenue
from the Playa del Sol Casino now being proposed in the Rio Salado south
of the downtown Phoenix area.
The private insurance companies will still receive the same amount of
revenue but instead of individuals paying a portion of the private
health insurance cost, the revenue from the Playa del Sol Casino
proposed for downtown Phoenix will be used to subsidize individual costs
so there will be no individual costs for Phoenix area residents.
The proposed Phoenix casino is estimated
to generate $1.2 Billion annually for health care costs that will be
used to directly pay the private insurance companies in lieu of being
paid by individuals.
With the inclusion of casino profits
subsidizing private insurance companies, medical services will be provided for
all living in the Phoenix area at no cost to individual or employer as
subsidized by the Federal government and Act Arizona using casino revenue. If casino revenue falls short of achieving
free heath care costs for individuals, modest fees for premiums and
co-pays will be utilized.
Act Arizona proposes inclusion of all in
Arizona is defined as employers, employees, unemployed, children,
seniors (to eliminate all Medicare fees specifically prescription
drugs), disabled and all other Arizona residents with no exclusion by
pre-existing conditions. |
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