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Cathy,
You’ve heard the expression: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s the same way when it comes to health insurance.
Combining younger, healthy people with older Americans who might require more medical services ensures two important things:
- People like cancer patients and survivors have access to quality, affordable health coverage.
- Younger people will have access to the health care they need when an unexpected illness or medical emergency occurs, whether it’s cancer or a car accident.
A recent federal government proposal to expand a niche insurance product called short-term plans would lead to the equivalent of breaking up these two groups. The result is that people like cancer survivors would no longer be able to afford coverage and healthier people could face financial ruin if they got sick.
We need to stop this harmful proposal.
This policy is currently in a public comment period at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That means the way to show your opposition is to submit a public comment.
Please submit your public comment on the government’s official form. It’s an important first step in letting the Administration know that their proposal is bad for cancer survivors and patients.
Thank you,
Erin O’Neill
Vice President, Grassroots Strategy
P.S. Looking for some additional points you can add to your public comment? You’re welcome to use any or all of these points, or create your own.
- This proposed rule could weaken or strip patient protections that could return us to a time where patients were discriminated against because of their health status.
- Please stop the flawed short-term plan regulation from moving forward unless concerns from the patient community are addressed.
- Expanding short-term plans could allow for backdoor discrimination against cancer patients. If plans don’t cover benefits like prescription drugs, cancer patients and survivors would be discouraged from enrolling in those plans.
- Older and sicker people, and those with pre-existing conditions like cancer, will likely make up a higher proportion of participants in the exchange plans, causing market instability and skyrocketing premiums.
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