Aimee's Blog

Here’s what I told Senator Jim DeMint, Senator Lindsey Graham & Congressman John Spratt:

Dear _______:

I would like a public option even though I have private health insurance.

Insurance companies practice something called “rescission” and have refused to change their policy. This does no one any good.

We need health care for all who inhabit our communities in order to keep our communities safe. Like fire departments & police services, health care for all is necessary to protect everyone in society.

Health care in our country is broken.

We need change. We need a public option. We need health care reform, now.

Thank you for your time,

Aimee Ennis

Please feel free to use my letter to tell your congressperson the same thing or write something better, just write something.

(Special shout-out! to @dondrennon for the reminder & the links, you made a difference on the twitters today.)

Chairman Stupak on Rescission Practices of Health Insurance Companies:

Today, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled “Terminations of Individual Health Policies by Insurance Companies.” The hearing examined the practice of “post-claims underwriting,” which occurs when insurance companies cancel individual health insurance policies after providers submit claims for medical services rendered.

The Committee conducted an investigation into the
practice of health insurance rescission, and the results were alarming. Over the past five years, almost 20,000 individual insurance policyholders have had their policies rescinded by the three insurance companies who testified today: Assurant, UnitedHealth Group, and WellPoint.

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