Protect & Improve Health Coverage: Supermajorities, Transparency & Value-Based Care

 

Safeguarding Affordable, High-Quality Health Care

American health coverage must be protected—no backsliding, no neglect. Here's how we can ensure healthcare remains affordable, comprehensive, and resilient:

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🛡️ 1. Require Supermajority for Health-Related Bills

To prevent quick rollback of critical healthcare protections, any legislation affecting health insurance, patient rights, pre-existing conditions, or coverage standards would require a supermajority (60%) in Congress to pass—ensuring bipartisan support and safeguarding public trust.

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💊 2. Reinforce ACA Protections

The Affordable Care Act guarantees essential benefits and prevents insurers from denying treatment due to pre-existing conditions myjournalcourier.com+1newyorker.com+1. We’ll codify these protections permanently and restore premium subsidies to prevent millions from losing coverage .

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📈 3. Expand Value-Based Insurance Design

Encourage plans that reduce costs and improve outcomes by covering high-value care with minimal out-of-pocket expenses—while avoiding low-value services sanders.senate.gov+15en.wikipedia.org+15obamawhitehouse.archives.gov+15. This model boosts quality and affordability for patients.

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📋 4. Enhance Transparency & Simplify Claims

Major insurers have pledged to reform prior-authorization processes cms.gov+4sfchronicle.com+4washingtonpost.com+4. We’ll turn that into law—requiring faster approvals, clearer communications, and standardized appeals. We’ll also mandate transparency in billing, so Americans understand their costs before receiving care.

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🤝 5. Protect Medicaid, CHIP, Rural Hospitals

Support the Senate’s $25 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals cms.gov+3sfchronicle.com+3kff.org+3politico.com and prevent cuts to Medicaid and CHIP. Federal audits and block grants will modernize and protect these lifelines .

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Why This Matters for District 1

• Nobody gets left behind—coverage won’t vanish with the next political shift.

• Affordable care is real—value-based plans and transparency reduce costs.

• Small towns saved—rural health systems and Medicaid funding remain strong.

• Health care stays focused on people—supermajority ensures broad support.

Why is the Government So Unfair

I know someone who's parent has cancer.. He is having a lot of problems which causes him to be in the hospital a lot. When he applied for medical he was denied, why I don't know... He worked thru his life, I always thought that these programs were put in effect to help a person who has worked thru out their lives???? It seems to me to be eligible for any government help you have to not have worked and want to live in places know as the ghetto.... If you have paid into the medicaid or even medicare program it seems that, the only thing that you are paying for is to help the rest of the country who don't feel they should have to work... I believe that when someone who has done his share of work and paid their taxes, like it is supposed to be should be eligible for help when it is needed.... Why should the rest of the family be strained and have to work multiple low paying jobs to be able to barley cover medical bills and still be able to just slide by and live... The family should be able to work just one job and spend the last little bit of time they have with the person who is dieing, because as we all know once the person is gone you will never get to spend any of that lost time with them again, and the only people you could blame will have to be the government who keeps denying his claim for help...