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Health Care Reform in Michigan
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What Health Care Reform Means to Michigan
Security and stability in health care.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the single most important reform of America's health care system in decades. This act, together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, will ensure that all Michigan citizens have access to quality, affordable health insurance.
Health care costs will be reduced for the middle class and Medicare is strengthened for seniors. If people like the plan they have, they can keep it. If they like their doctor, nothing takes that choice away. But they'll have more consumer protections that give them greater control over the insurance they have and their health coverage can't be canceled if they become sick.
In fact, health care decision-making authority now shifts away from insurance companies to people, allowing them to take charge of their health care decisions.
Right now in Michigan:
- 1.1 million are without insurance
- 1 in 6 are enrolled in Medicaid
- Every Michigan family with insurance pays $730 per year for emergency room care for the uninsured, the most expensive form of care available.
- Health care costs contribute $1200-$1600 to the price of every vehicle made by our domestic auto industry. Foreign automakers pay a fraction of that, resulting in an uneven playing field for American manufacturers.
- 1,040 citizens in Michigan will lose their insurance every week until 2011.
Health care reform will change this and give Michigan residents greater control over their health care in three key ways:
- It outlaws discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions;
- It reduces costs and makes coverage more affordable for people without it today.
- It sets up a new competitive marketplace where small business owners and families get the same buying power and insurance choices that all members of Congress will have to allow them to shop for the insurance plan that works best for them.
There will be some reforms that take effect immediately, and some that will come into effect in several years.
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