Rep. Kilroy knows that health care needs a uniquely American solution to the challenges of cost, quality and accessibility. Reform must include the choice and freedom that Americans with health care have come to expect. In other words, if you like your health care, nothing should change. If you want to keep working with the nurses and doctors that keep you healthy, you will continue to see them.
The most important change Rep. Kilroy hopes most Americans will see is the cost of health care expenses going down.
Any action on health care must also make it more affordable. Wellness is an important part of lowering the cost of health care so we can keep people healthy instead of relying on expensive care through specialists or the emergency room.
Americans need quality health care that is affordable and accessible and also guaranteed. Consumers should have peace of mind that moving jobs doesn’t mean they will lose insurance because of their age or insurance terms like “pre-existing condition.”
Health care is vital to our economic recovery and reducing our long term spending. Rep. Kilroy talks with businesses all the time that are paying too much for health care and she knows all of us pay the “hidden tax” of the uninsured. Moving our country forward will depend upon reducing the cost and increasing the choices in health care.
