Affordable health care is a basic human right.

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Going forward, Hillary will build on these efforts and fight to ensure that the savings from these reforms benefits families—not just insurance companies, drug companies, and large corporations.

Defend the Affordable Care Act. Hillary will continue to defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against Republican efforts to repeal it. She'll build on it to expand affordable coverage, slow the growth of overall health care costs (including prescription drugs), and make it possible for providers to deliver the very best care to patients.

Lower out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles. The average deductible for employer-sponsored health plans rose from $1,240 in 2002 to about $2,500 in 2013. American families are being squeezed by rising out-of-pocket health care costs. Hillary believes that workers should share in slower growth of national health care spending through lower costs.

Reduce the cost of prescription drugs. Prescription drug spending accelerated from 2.5 percent in 2013 to 12.6 percent in 2014. It’s no wonder that almost three-quarters of Americans believe prescription drug costs are unreasonable. Hillary believes we need to demand lower drug costs for hardworking families and seniors.

Transform our health care system to reward value and quality. Hillary is committed to building on delivery system reforms in the Affordable Care Act that improve value and quality care for Americans.

Hillary will also work to expand access to rural Americans, who often have difficulty finding quality, affordable health care. She will explore cost-effective ways to broaden the scope of health care providers eligible for telehealth reimbursement under Medicare and other programs, including federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. She will also call for states to support efforts to streamline licensing for telemedicine and examine ways to expand the types of services that qualify for reimbursement.

Hillary is continuing a lifelong fight to ensure women have access to reproductive health care. As senator, she championed access to emergency contraception and voted in favor of strengthening a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. As president, she will continue defending Planned Parenthood, which provides critical health services including breast exams and cancer screenings to 2.7 million women a year.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/health-care/

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1. The only way that will happen is Universal health care that eliminates the insurance companies.

All we have now with the ACA is the same as the old, with a new set of rules. We are still pricing people out of health care and it is getting worse already.

[Juicy_Bellows]

2. And that about does it.

Thank you - said it as well as anyone could have.

As long as there are insurance companies involved we will never get ideal pricing. Insurance has got to get over it and stick to fucking people over in other ways.

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3. Exactly.

If anyone isn't insured it's obviously NOT a human right.

Medicare for all is the only way to cover everyone.

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4. Single Payer, Universal Health Care.

Medicare still implies insurance companies.

In the United States, Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1966, currently using about 30 private insurance companies across the United States.[1] Medicare provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older who have worked and paid into the system. It also provides health insurance to younger people with disabilities, end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_%28United_States%29

Insurance is the root problem. We do not need private health insurance, we need health care.
Single Payer, Universal Health Care.
That does not mean the government provides the health care. The health care itself can still remain private. Only that the government replace all the insurance companies and their baked in administrative waste, in administering the costs and billing of said health care.

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5. The problem with the ACA is that is still allows the pro profit insurance companies

to call the shots.

I can only hope that the small businesses finally realize that the corporations with the good benefits took all the best candidates with their packages. When we take away insurance from WORK, then the playing field will be level.