Friday, February 1, 2008

I even found abill to be passed for national health care...

this is just a section of it but you can clearly see the benefits of this bill being passed!!!

http://www.pnhp.org/docs/nhi_bill_final.pdf

21 TITLE I—ELIGIBILITY AND
22 BENEFITS
23 SEC. 101. ELIGIBILITY AND REGISTRATION.
24 (a) IN GENERAL.—All individuals residing in the
25 United States (including any territory of the United
26 States) are covered under the USNHI Program entitling
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1 them to a universal, best quality standard of care. Each
2 such individual shall receive a card with a unique number
3 in the mail. An individual’s social security number shall
4 not be used for purposes of registration under this section.
5 (b) REGISTRATION.—Individuals and families shall
6 receive a United States National Health Insurance Card
7 in the mail, after filling out a United States National
8 Health Insurance application form at a health care pro9
vider. Such application form shall be no more than 2 pages
10 long.
11 (c) PRESUMPTION.—Individuals who present them12
selves for covered services from a participating provider
13 shall be presumed to be eligible for benefits under this Act,
14 but shall complete an application for benefits in order to
15 receive a United States National Health Insurance Card
16 and have payment made for such benefits.
17 SEC. 102. BENEFITS AND PORTABILITY.
18 (a) IN GENERAL.—The health insurance benefits
19 under this Act cover all medically necessary services, in20
cluding at least the following:
21 (1) Primary care and prevention.
22 (2) Inpatient care.
23 (3) Outpatient care.
24 (4) Emergency care.
25 (5) Prescription drugs.
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1 (6) Durable medical equipment.
2 (7) Long term care.
3 (8) Mental health services.
4 (9) The full scope of dental services (other than
5 cosmetic dentistry).
6 (10) Substance abuse treatment services.
7 (11) Chiropractic services.
8 (12) Basic vision care and vision correction
9 (other than laser vision correction for cosmetic pur10
poses).
11 (13) Hearing services, including coverage of
12 hearing aids.
13 (b) PORTABILITY.—Such benefits are available
14 through any licensed health care clinician anywhere in the
15 United States that is legally qualified to provide the bene16
fits.
17 (c) NO COST-SHARING.—No deductibles, copay18
ments, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing shall be imposed
19 with respect to covered benefits.

I can not believe that america has not already passed a bill such as this, this could litterally solve a ton of americas problems including helth care, poverty, and even crime!

1 comment:

Sarah Marie Brock said...

I completely agree with you! I'm doing the same topic and reasearing health care i'm finding so much stuff! I can't beleive they haven't passed something like that! It would solve so much and to think they have something like that just lying around. About 47 million people in this country don't have health care! can you believe that? If they passed that, those people would have nothing to worry about.