How the New Health Care Bill Will Help Me and My Family

How this health care bill will impact me.
During the past year I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. The new health care bill is encouraging to me as states will make more community and home health care services available for seniors at reasonable prices. My illness has been diagnosed as slow progressing. I have longevity in my my family. My father, age 91, lives and deals with PD every day. He has children near-by who can help him daily. When my PD progresses, I will not have family near-by who can care for my daily needs and concerns. Even if I would not require full care center treatment, I will probably need some type of community or home care assistance.

Whatever type of community and home care helps that I can utilize would be helpful in my care would be truly appreciated. If other changes regarding health care are forthcoming, the community and home care help for me will most likely be necessary for me to exist.

1. Restaurants must make public the calorie counts on their menus. We should learn how that healthful salad can soon turn into a meal of more than 1000 calories. Obesity is a major issue for all of us and is an underlying cause of many other health problems.

2. No one in my family should be denied health care insurance because they have cancer or are diagnosed with this dreaded disease. Cancer will become top cause of death in Iowa very soon according to doctors and data from Iowa.

3. A job loss for any reason should not include loss of insurance coverage. This is a very important issue for me and my family to know that even if we are downsized, our savings would not be wiped out because of health problems.

4. As small business owners, we will have help with provision of insurance to ourselves and employees. Many small business owners have either dropped or don't have insurance protection available for employees. That additional high expense would cause them to close their doors.

5. Iowa nurses should benefit because they will be paid for their great quality of service. Nurse practitioners are helpful to middle class families, like ours, as they have a more hands-on, preventive approach to medicine. They also have more time to get to know you and their philosophy of health promotion and disease prevention prevention helps the patient and is more cost-effective. Their work and instruction also helps prevent us from having to be re-hospitalized because a needed piece of information was not passed along by other staff.

6. My grandchildren could remain on their parents insurance policies until age 26 when most likely they will be out of college. Young children would also be insured even if they have pre-existing conditions. Prior to this, many college students and young people went without insurance because they could not afford it. My daughter had two high risk pregnancies. Although her children are fine, health care insurance could have been a significant financial burden if they could not have obtained health care insurance for their children.

As time goes on health care issues will change often.

Things will come and go as new drug research proves better aids for those who are ill. Medical care will probably also become more expensive as technology and care becomes more and more higher class.

We have a great beginning.

Now everyone must move on and work together for a great health care system for our country.