Presidential Weekly Address: Losing Insurance Can Happen to Anybody

Highlights:
-Over the last twelve months, nearly six million more Americans lost their health coverage – that’s 17,000 men and women every single day. We’re not just talking about Americans in poverty, either – we’re talking about middle-class Americans.

-We can expect that about half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. If you’re under the age of 21 today, chances are more than half that you’ll find yourself uninsured at some point in that time. And more than one-third of Americans will go without coverage for longer than one year.

-Americans who already have insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in the plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.

-Plan will make it illegal for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition, drop your coverage when you get sick.

-If we can successfully slow the growth of health care costs it can reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the long term.

-Let's put country before party and the interests of our children above our own