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Contact Your Senator!
"Health Care Bill of Rights" Half Way to
Gov's
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Dear Jaime,
The Maine
House of Representatives passed the "Health Care
Bill of Rights" (LD1205) on Friday. Now
it's going to the Maine Senate for vote-- and we
need your help to get the bill to pass!
Please contact your Senator
and tell them why this bill calling for more
transparency from insurers is so important to
Maine families. Tell your Senator that
more of our premium dollars need to go toward our
medical care instead of
excessive administrative costs and insurance
industry profits.
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 TALKING
POINTS
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If we're ever to save money on health
care and cut skyrocketing health care
costs in Maine we need to know what
we're paying for. As things stand right
now, a lot of the information is unavailable
that would help people (health care consumers)
make better, more cost-effective health care
decision for their
families.
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Health care consumers are consistently
blamed by insurance companies, hospitals and
providers for the rising health care costs Maine
and the nation are facing, yet they are not
giving consumers the information we need to make
better more cost effective health care
decisions. If insurers gave us
more information then we would be able to spend
our health care dollars more
wisely.
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While our state doesn't have the money
right now to increase access to health care and
coverage for all of the people who need it,
there are some important changes we can make in
our laws that will help control our skyrocketing
health care costs while increasing the quality
of care we receive. The savings from those
changes could then be used to increase access to
care and coverage to those who need it.
All it will take is insurance companies
giving people more of the information (being
more transparent) we need to make informed,
cost-effective decisions for our
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CONTACT INFO
FOR MAINE SENATORS
As health care consumers, we
are the ultimate payers of all health care
and coverage bills. We should have the right
to the information that will allow us to make
better health care decisions and spend our money
more wisely!
Thank you for your help in
achieving quality, affordable health care for all
Maine people!
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