The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering expanding availability of a type of health insurance plan that could deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, cap benefits and exclude prescription drugs and hospitalization.
We need you to ask them to withdraw the short-term plan rule by clicking on the “Submit Your Comment Now” button and using one of the statements we’ve provided below, or use your own.
Feel free to use any of the below statements in Step 1 or you can write your own:
- This proposed rule could weaken or strip patient protections that could return us to a time where patients were discriminated against because of their health status.
- Please stop the flawed short-term plan regulation from moving forward unless concerns from the patient community are addressed
- Expanding short-term plans could allow for backdoor discrimination against cancer patients. If plans don’t cover benefits like prescription drugs, cancer patients and survivors would be discouraged from enrolling in those plans.
- Older and sicker people, and those with pre-existing conditions like cancer will likely make up a higher proportion of participants in the exchange plans, causing market instability and skyrocketing premiums.
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