ACT for health care justice anytime with the following materials
to assist you. Scroll down to "Messages that Work"
to get the latest, tested messages to overome objections
and to win hearts and minds.
| Objection |
Message that Overcomes
the Objection |
| Anyone of any age says to you, "I don't know...I'm
not sure what to think of the new health care reform..."
|
The new health care law requires that members of Congress
get their healthcare coverage from the same plans as millions
of Americans. It will also make healthcare coverage more secure
by ensuring that working families cannot be denied coverage
due to a pre-existing condition, or lose their coverage or
be forced into bankruptcy when someone gets sick. |
| A senior says to you, "I don't know...I'm not sure what
to think of the new health care reform..." |
The new health reform law requires that members of Congress
get their healthcare coverage from the same plans as millions
of Americans. If it is good enough for members of Congress and
their families, it will be good enough for average Americans.
The plan will also reduce prescription drug costs for seniors
by closing the current coverage gap in Medicare and will give
seniors free yearly check-ups. |
| "I'm worried that this law really isn't going to
do me much good..."
|
The new health care law will lower healthcare costs for everyone
and improve healthcare for women and children by prohibiting
insurers from charging women more than men for the same coverage
and requiring coverage for maternity care. It will also require
insurance companies to cover any child with a pre-existing condition
and allow children to stay on their parents insurance until
they are 26. |
| "Nobody better touch my Medicare..." |
The new health care law is going to improve your Medicare.
It lowers the costs of prescription drugs for seniors by closing
the coverage gap in Medicare, cuts waste from the system to
ensure that Medicare funds go to improving care, and provides
for annual check-ups so seniors can have better preventive care. |
| "Seems to me that this reform is just a boon for the
insurance companies..." |
Insurance companies spent over five hundred million dollars
opposing healthcare reform because they knew it would hold them
accountable. Reform will require insurance companies to cover
people with pre-existing conditions, ban them from dropping
coverage for people who get sick, crack down on their unjustified
premium hikes, and increase competition among them to help lower
costs. |
| "This new law is going to make my premiums go up!" |
Reform will help lower the costs of premiums by creating
new competitive markets that will increase competition among
insurance companies.
Insurance companies have been increasing premiums for the
past thirty years in pursuit of bigger profits. Reform will
finally bring light to unjustified premium hikes and help
drive them down.
|
"This is nothing for a government takeover of my health
care!"
"This is socialism!" |
For years, insurance company bureaucrats decided if treatments
recommended by doctors would be covered. Reform will ensure
that insurance company bureaucrats can
no longer come between you and your doctor. That's not a government
takeover! That's the government of the people watching out
for the people!
Reform holds insurance companies accountable by providing
fair rules and setting high standards. That’s not a
government takeover, that’s government doing what it
is supposed to do—working on behalf of citizens! |
| "I'm worried this new reform will cost jobs." |
Reform will help to ceate jobs by allowing small businesses
to band together in new competitive insurance markets, which
will allow them to spend less money on healthcare and invest
more in growing their businesses. |
| "I think reform should be repealed." |
The public believes we should give reform a chance and make
changes that improve it. Those who support repeal are siding
with insurance companies who want to continue their practices
of premium hikes and denied coverage. |
| "Reform is going to add to the deficit." |
The independent organization in charge of predicting the cost
of federal legislation estimates that by slowing the growth
in healthcare costs and cutting waste from the current system,
reform will reduce the deficit by over one hundred billion dollars
in the first ten years, and by over a trillion dollars in the
next twenty years. |
| "An individual mandate is socialism!? |
Just as requiring all Americans to have car insurance protects
other drivers, requiring everyone to have health insurance protects
taxpayers by ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. |
