The current Supreme Court is turning individual decisions into decisions by the state. Individuals are making individual decisions to join an exchange. There is no enforcement except for the tax to encourage health care insurance choice. The ACA is supported by taxes. There is no cost to any state. The state holds no interest in this law beyond it's own exchange. The federal exchange removes all obligation by the states to support human health and pays for it without penalizing any state.
The ACA successfully recognizes states rights in providing a vehicle to insure all it's citizens through a state exchange supported entirely by the federal law for at least two years. It also recognizes states rights by providing an alternative to a state exchange without imposing any obligation for the state to participate with their own exchanges. The citizen's right to life without disease is fulfilled without compromising state's rights.
There already exists federal mandates of entire classes of people in regard to health care.
Know Your Rights: (click here) Medical, Dental and Mental Health Care (2012 resource): Prison officials are obligated under the Eighth Amendment to provide prisoners with adequate medical care. This principle applies regardless of whether the medical care is provided by governmental employees or by private medical staff under contract with the government.
Most of the people in the exchanges are the needy? They were unable to afford or get insurance otherwise?
This is an entire class of people. The Supreme Court needs to be careful in exposing an entire class of people to danger for their health. If the federal government can mandate health care to prisoners, it can mandate health care among citizens. The individual choice by citizens otherwise unable to afford or find health care insurance is equivalent to a prison population unable to find health care otherwise.
States and localities (click here) have a constitutional obligation to provide adequate health care to prisoners, and they must pay for it out of their own budgets. However, a 1997 ruling says that care provided to inmates beyond the walls of the prison qualifies for Medicaid reimbursement if the prisoner is Medicaid eligible. The federal government then pays 50 percent to 84 percent of Medicaid costs.
This is hatred. It better not be tolerated.
It's more dangerous to give birth in the United States (click here) than in 49 other countries. African-American women are at almost four times greater risk than Caucasian women. A safe pregnancy is a human right for every woman regardless of race or income....
There is no other measure to insure pregnant women in the USA.
Full Title (click here)
To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide grants to States to establish State maternal mortality review committees on pregnancy-related deaths occurring within such States; to develop definitions of severe maternal morbidity and data collection protocols; and to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
The ACA successfully recognizes states rights in providing a vehicle to insure all it's citizens through a state exchange supported entirely by the federal law for at least two years. It also recognizes states rights by providing an alternative to a state exchange without imposing any obligation for the state to participate with their own exchanges. The citizen's right to life without disease is fulfilled without compromising state's rights.
There already exists federal mandates of entire classes of people in regard to health care.
Know Your Rights: (click here) Medical, Dental and Mental Health Care (2012 resource): Prison officials are obligated under the Eighth Amendment to provide prisoners with adequate medical care. This principle applies regardless of whether the medical care is provided by governmental employees or by private medical staff under contract with the government.
Most of the people in the exchanges are the needy? They were unable to afford or get insurance otherwise?
This is an entire class of people. The Supreme Court needs to be careful in exposing an entire class of people to danger for their health. If the federal government can mandate health care to prisoners, it can mandate health care among citizens. The individual choice by citizens otherwise unable to afford or find health care insurance is equivalent to a prison population unable to find health care otherwise.
States and localities (click here) have a constitutional obligation to provide adequate health care to prisoners, and they must pay for it out of their own budgets. However, a 1997 ruling says that care provided to inmates beyond the walls of the prison qualifies for Medicaid reimbursement if the prisoner is Medicaid eligible. The federal government then pays 50 percent to 84 percent of Medicaid costs.
This is hatred. It better not be tolerated.
It's more dangerous to give birth in the United States (click here) than in 49 other countries. African-American women are at almost four times greater risk than Caucasian women. A safe pregnancy is a human right for every woman regardless of race or income....
There is no other measure to insure pregnant women in the USA.
Full Title (click here)
To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide grants to States to establish State maternal mortality review committees on pregnancy-related deaths occurring within such States; to develop definitions of severe maternal morbidity and data collection protocols; and to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
- Introduced:
- Mar 3, 2011
112th Congress, 2011–2013 - Status:
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Died in a previous Congress
This bill was introduced on March 3, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.
"Deadly Delivery" (click here)
The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA
It is very possible to turn the maternal death rate in the USA around. Health insurance.
This IS the responsibility of government. It is the OBLIGATION of government to study and end deaths to citizens. If government wants to OFFER private enterprise a place in that obligation then so be it, but, that does not dissolve the underlying responsibility of a democracy.
This is NOT a state's rights issue.This is not a budgetary problem for states. There is no morality problem here as it is saving lives and improving the outcomes to the lives it touches, both in physical health and fiscal health. We knew the ACA would add economic opportunity and wealth to Americans as it was being written. This is a fact and the government has an obligation to restore equality to all Americans.
The Affordable Care Act (click here) is working in terms of affordability, access, and quality for African American families, seniors, businesses, and taxpayers. This includes African Americans who were previously uninsured and African Americans who had insurance that didn't provide them with adequate coverage and financial security. African American families have more security, and many of those who already had insurance now have better coverage. Fewer Americans are uninsured. At the same time, as a country, we're spending our health care dollars more wisely and we're starting to receive higher quality care....
