What questions about healthcare reform would you like members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to answer?
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33 votes
How will you ensure ins. co's stop denial of claims?
Insurance companies have a huge incentive now to deny claims. In fact, when someone gets seriously ill, they have a huge incentive to have that person die
(as awful as this sounds, it is clearly true).How will health care reform get rid of this incentive and replace it with one beneficial to s... more
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31 votes
Why is the French system not being reviewed as an option?
The French healthcare system is considered one of the best run in the world. It is a combination of private and public options. The public option gives everyone a basic level of care with additional levels of coverage available to those who can/choose to pay more. It also has both public and p... more
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28 votes
Why is Harry Reid so wimpy?
Time after time Harry Reid has refrained from using his powers as Senate Majority Leader to push even for just the mainstream-level Democratic agenda. Republicans threatening filibuster? Why won't he force them to actually do it, and make fools of themselves on national TV? Obama's picks stalled?... more
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26 votes
How do you propose to pay for healthcare reform?
Specifically, is the caucus open to looking at the exclusion for employer-provided healthcare? Are there other revenue sources on the table that are more equitable/progressive?
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26 votes
Will you get yourselves booked on news shows?
We need not just one but many strong progressive voices to counterbalance the relentless right-wing framing pushed by the AEI booking agency and move the Overton Window in our direction. You can't let the right define the terms of debate on Capitol Hill!
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23 votes
Why are health insurers given any imput into health reform?
The failure of uniform access to health care and the consistency of that care can be direclty laid at the foot of the health insurance industry.
Why does the Democratic Party wish to listen to those businesses that have created problems for our access to health care? Why should those insuranc... more
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23 votes
Is health care a human right or a privilege
Do we have the right to be in good health? Or is health a privilege for those who can afford medical care? Our current health care system treats health as a privilege for those who are fortunate enough to be employed by a company that will compensate them well. For the rest of us, receiving li... more
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21 votes
Who owns congress? Big Pharma? Big Med? or We The People?
One of the things rarely spoken out loud is who actually OWNS the Congress. It looks more and more as if big pharma and big med are going to own this too.
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20 votes
How are you going to help hospitals & doctors? I am neither.
Hospitals and doctors have been getting the short end of the stick when it comes to payment for their services, while the drug companies gather money like a bunch of drunken sailors. If the system is to be changed, and I think it should, we need to give the service providers a more realistic r... more
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19 votes
What value does the insurance industry add to healthcare?
Medicare spends over 96% of its funds for healthcare. Yet for-profit insurance companies spend over 20% of their money on administration (mostly to deny care to sick people), marketing and profit. If the private market is so much more efficient, why are they so worried about competing on a leve... more
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18 votes
Why is a human right tied to an industry?
Health care is a human right, not an industry. If our other rights were tied to an industry like health care is then we'd be charged money to have free speech, with those who have the most money being allowed to speak the most. If our concern to protect our GDP trumped human rights in other cas... more
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16 votes
Public plan with Medicare bargaining power?
A lot of the discussion of the public plan has been very abstract - but we could end up with a public plan that is totally toothless, or one that only gets the unhealthy people that the private plans don't want, or one with no bargaining power. Will you fight not just for any public plan, but for... more
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16 votes
How will you fight for single payer? And CCA
Along with single payer, we need the option to live at home with disabilities of chronic illness or aging. The CCA Community Choice Act has been introduced in both houses. See www.adapt.org for info. People are being forced into nursing homes, when it's cheaper to live in our own homes with at... more
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15 votes
Will you take profit motive out of coverage? Its unnecessary
Well paid doctors, nurses, innovators & caregivers, plus well equipped facilities, access to diagnostics, treatment and prescriptions should be the priority. There are plenty of good people that would be happy to serve in the health care industry for very human reasons. There were too many ... more
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12 votes
Why can't you support single-payer health care?
Other industrialized countries have long had single payer health care plans, which relieves the rising cost of health care, removes profits by middlemen, and is inclusive. Why can't you support this solution.