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I’m deeply troubled by the news that health care insurers are proposing raising premiums on Virginians who receive their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act individual market. What’s worse is that I know we could have taken action to avoid such drastic increases. Over the last year, the Trump Administration and members of Congress from his party have weakened the Affordable Care Act. When they eliminated the individual mandate, reduced the enrollment period, continually called for its repeal, and cut off cost saving reduction payments, they helped to worsen significant instability in prices, and Virginians are bearing the brunt of this concerted effort.
It’s very important that we not only act in ways to preserve the Affordable Care Act, which brought our nation’s uninsured rate to historic lows, but also make it better. We need to pass the bipartisan legislation we’ve put forward to stabilize the health care market and make sure Virginians have affordable options for health insurance. And then I hope Congress will take up my Medicare-X bill to provide low-cost, high-quality care in every zip code, boosting competition. This bill would build on the Medicare framework to establish a public insurance plan offered on the individual and small business health exchanges, allowing Americans to choose among the existing private insurance plans or a public one. It would be particularly beneficial in rural Virginia, where often there are limited options and the prices are too high.
What we need to do is work together to give people more options that are affordable. It’s time to strengthen – not weaken – our health care system for all.
Sincerely,
"[nice signature graphic] Senator Tim Kaine
Official editorial comment: Could Nick Freitas ask for better publicity than this? The more people refuse to participate in insurance gambling rackets, the better the chance that poor people will have access to decent medical care again by the time I'm old enough to need it...the way poor people did have access to decent medical care, before the insurance mafia took over, back when I was able to pay for medical tests on a busboy's wages.
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