Dear Friend,
I am pleased to share with you new provisions of health care reform that will make preventive care more accessible and affordable. These new regulations, authorized by the Affordable Care Act, require new health plans to cover preventive services at no cost to the patient. Americans currently use preventive services at only half of the recommended rate because of their prohibitive costs.
Comprehensive preventive care can save billions of dollars and thousands of lives. According to statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), seven in ten deaths in America result from chronic and often preventable diseases. HHS data also shows that 69 million workers report missed days due to illness each year, which reduces economic output in this country by $260 billion per year. I believe we must do better, and this historic health reform legislation will keep many Americans, especially Inland residents, healthier and save our nation money in the long run.
Americans who enroll in a new health plan on or after September 23, 2010, will have access to preventive services without being charged a deductible or a copayment. Depending on your age and health risks, the types of preventative services that will be available without a deductible, co-pay or co-insurance include:
- Blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol tests;
- Cancer screenings;
- Routine vaccines for diseases such as measles, polio, and meningitis;
- Flu and pneumonia shots;
- Counseling, screening and vaccines for healthy pregnancies; and
- Regular well-baby and well-child visits, from birth to age 21
With the leadership of the President and Congress, we have worked to make quality, affordable health care a right for every American. Rest assured that I will continue to fight so that the American people – not insurance companies – are in control of their health care decisions.
Sincerely,
JOE BACA, Congressman
43rd Congressional District
Too bad Mr. Living-at-the-public-hand-feed doesn’t get it; the “plan” only benefits people already covered; the plan did little to change who was not covered, who are the people that need most preventative care, so their condition does not worsen and require expensive emergency hospitalization (which we pick up via Medi-Cal).
My plan already covered all of those items for no charge. Will I pay more to get the same coverage as before?
Free healthcare! Isn’t it nice of all those doctors and nurses to do allof that work without passing the cost along. Somehow.
Are the insurance companies going to do this for free? Are the doctors going to work for free?
The money has to come from somewhere; either the taxpayer or the insured.
All dummy Baca cares about is having someone else pay for freebies for his voters, the “dependent class”
Can Scott Folkens get some help from any Republicans to at least get his candidate statement in the voter guide?
Hey Joe, thank God your district is bereft of voters with a brain, and, like the You Tube sensation that thinks the funding will come from “Obama”, all have their hands out for those pennies from heaven!
If this was the 1800′s again, there would be horse thief hangings everywhere!