Congress Urged To Pass Health Care Reform On Behalf Of Consumers
By Leah Valencia, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service
The Consumers Union urged congress Wednesday to pass comprehensive health care reform this year in response to findings from a recent survey the Union conducted that revealed a high level of consumer dissatisfaction with the current health care model.
In a press conference on Capitol Hill, Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) welcomed Consumers Union president Jim Guest to speak on what he described as an urgent need for health care reform.
Guest said the magazine Consumer Report’s, published by CU, recently did a consumer survey and found sobering inadequacies in the current health care system.
“Early this week consumer reports released a poll… nearly 73 percent of respondents said they worry that an illness or accident would be financial devastating to them, an equal number said they worry if they got sick they will be denied care or their care would be rationed by health insurance companies… those are devastating numbers,” Guest said. “51 percent in the last year said they didn’t go to the doctor, didn’t get a follow up treatment or procedure, didn’t fill a prescription they couldn’t take care of their own health because they couldn’t pay for it.”
Guest said CU is serious about health care reform because it is in the best interest of the American public.
CU, a historically nonpartisan organization, announced last week that it would run a TV ad in Washington, D.C. for two weeks that urged consumers to put pressure on Congress to pass health care reform this year. According to CU, this is something the organization has never done for any other cause since its founding in 1936.
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October 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
This health care scare is just to distract people from the fact that Obama has never even legally proven he’s President. No one cares about health care. We care about the RULE OF LAW and BO has provided not one shred of evidence supporting his farcical claim of being a citizen. Luckily, Republicans have been pushing this, and now people are starting to realize… Are we being rules by a foreign power?