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Patient organizations call for health care coverage for all, "curbing costs responsibly"
WASHINGTON, DC – Forty-eight leading national patient organizations have called on President Obama and members of Congress to enact health care reform legislation that guarantees effective and affordable health and long-term care coverage for all Americans.
In a statement issued today, the chief executives of the patient groups specifically urged that reform legislation:
- cover everyone
- curb costs responsibly
- abolish exclusions for pre-existing conditions
- eliminate lifetime caps,
- and ensure long-term and end-of-life care.
“We believe that the health care system can be both effective and affordable for everyone when it provides more coordinated care, improves patient outcomes that lower costs to society, and keeps pace with biomedical innovation,” said National Health Council President Myrl Weinberg. “Access, affordability, innovation, and high quality care should be the benchmarks for health care in America.”
