Act Arizona Proposes Arizona Casinos
Use Profits to Purchase Private Health Insurance for All Arizonans
PHOENIX (By
Jon
Garrido, The Jon Garrido News Network)
November 16, 2009 —
Health Care Reform is a high priority of the Obama Administration and has considerable support in the United States Congress. During the 2008 debates, President Obama stated he supported universal health care for children but adults would have something significantly less.
Obama also stated health care would be available to all except
undocumented Hispanics. Act Arizona believes the health of all persons
living in the United States contributes to the well being of all
Americans. Having anyone sick in an American community has an adverse
impact on the entire community.
Recent movement on Capitol Hill and by major health-care players
suggests consensus is growing for action this year, but deep rifts
remain over how to pay for expanded coverage and whether a new
government-sponsored program should be offered to people who have
trouble buying private insurance.
A coalition of hospitals, insurers, employers, physicians, drug makers
and consumers released a report March 27 endorsing a set of policy
changes that could cut in half the number of uninsured Americans.
Most notably, the group, known as the Health Reform Dialogue, calls for
creating an "individual mandate" that would require every American to
have some type of health coverage. Anyone who cannot afford insurance
would be eligible for subsidies or expanded government programs such as
Medicaid.
"We should seek to ensure coverage for all," the group concluded after
six months of private, professionally facilitated negotiations.
The private insurance companies will still receive the same amount of revenue but instead of individuals paying a portion of the private health insurance cost, the revenue from the Playa del Sol Casino proposed in Phoenix will be used to subsidize individual costs so there will be no individual costs for Phoenix area residents.
The proposed Phoenix casino is estimated
to generate $1.2 Billion annually for health care costs that will be
used to directly pay the private insurance companies in lieu of being
paid by individuals.
With
the inclusion of casino profits subsidizing private insurance companies,
medical services will be provided for all living in the Phoenix area at
no cost to individual or employer as subsidized by the Federal
government and Act Arizona using casino reve
nue.
If casino revenue falls short of achieving
free heath care costs for individuals, modest fees for premiums and
co-pays will be utilized.
Act Arizona proposes inclusion of all in
Arizona is defined as employers, employees, unemployed, children,
seniors (to eliminate all Medicare fees specifically prescription
drugs), disabled and all other Arizona residents with no exclusion by
pre-existing conditions.
Whatever federal program is
approved in Washington, Act Arizona is committed to off set all
individual costs to achieve free health care for all living in Arizona.
Act Arizona will establish a health insurance entity to
subsidize Arizona health insurance companies providing coverage in
Arizona.
All fees including health insurance premiums, co-pays and required
Medicare's out of pocket "donut" fees will be subsidized from revenue
from the Playa del Sol Casino now being proposed in Phoenix, Arizona.
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