Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

The new health insurance reform law wasn't perfect, but it reined in some of the worst abuses by the health insurance companies while providing a host of benefits to Nevada families:

Banning insurance companies from placing lifetime limits on coverage;
Closing Medicare Part D "donut hole" for nearly 28,000 Nevada seniors;
Offering free yearly checkups and preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies to all Nevadans;
Ending insurance company discrimination based on pre-existing conditions;
Allowing nearly 9,500 Nevadans to remain on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26;
Strengthening 33 community centers throughout Nevada;
Making nearly 30,000 Nevada small businesses eligibility for tax credits to help provide health insurance for their employees.

Shelley will continue to work to improve health care reform, and defend against efforts to defund the law that would strip Nevadans of these important benefits.

Unfortunately, the health care benefits that seniors rely on are under assault. Washington Republicans have Medicare in their sights, voting time and again to kill the program by turning it over to profit hungry private insurance companies.
Shelley is not only committed to continue fighting to stop them from destroying this crucial program, but helping to improve it. In fact, she backs proposals allowing for drug reimportation and price negotiation that could save the program and seniors billions of dollars.

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