Health Care Reform

Cost Control Major Issue: Click here to read "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" written by a radiologist about unnecessary tests.

This bill is not as good as the HELP bill as it mandates coverage, without a public option to keep private insurance competitive.

Athlete is a pre-existing condition in Texas read more

Just the Facts:

(Obama said he would sign a bill that met the following criteria)

Does not increase deficit; must be paid for
Does not raise taxes on middle class.
Makes healthcare universally available and afordable.

Keep in mind the governments definition of "small business" is under $10 million income & less than 50 employees...mom & pop main street businesses are "micro-business" so when opponents say it will tax "small business" it will, but it won't tax main street family micro-businesses.

Get AARP's take on the topic

Truth about uninsured:

See the facts from the Kaiser Foundation click here. When you look at non-elderly population (people not eligible for Medicare, the unisured in Texas goes up from 25% to 27.5%.

PHYSICIANS WANT TO KNOW what you want them to do if you are unable to tell them at the moment. If you are awake, you can still tell them, but if you are in a comma, and your heart stops, they don’t know what you want unless you put it in writing. Regardless of whether you support healthcare reform, please sign a physician’s directive and take the guess work out of health management…..take the pressure off your family when one daughter wants to keep you alive and the other knows you wouldn’t want to live as a vegetable in a nursing home. Make the decision ahead of time, sign the papers, and tell them what you signed so they don’t argue at your bedside.

print form Physicians Directive

For more information about Medical Power of Attorney & Physicians Directive visit

TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

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