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Providing Quality, Affordable Health Care
- Small businesses can receive tax credits to help afford insurance for their employees;
- Seniors can receive assistance affording prescription drugs;
- Health plans must cover preventive health care such as mammograms and colonoscopies without charging a deductible or co-pay;
- Insurance companies have been banned from canceling coverage when someone gets too sick;
- Children with pre-existing conditions can get affordable insurance;
- Insurance companies can’t place arbitrary yearly or lifetime benefit caps; and
- Children can stay on their parents’ insurance until their 26th birthdays.
Press Releases
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month
10/31/14"Every week this month, our office has posted resources, links, and stories about the struggle faced by those whose lives have been effected by this reprehensible practice. We've highlighted the complexities in our legal justice system, underscored the shocking statistics of intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ community, and promoted the noble work of our local businesses in raising money for critical domestic violence education programs.
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Moore Exposes Flaws in Ebola Travel Ban Proposal
10/15/14"Understandably, many Americans have grown increasingly worried about the recent confirmed cases of Ebola within our country's borders. This response is certainly reasonable, and I share my constituent's concern, but it is important to ensure that our alarm about this virus doesn't lead to unreasonable and dangerous actions."
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Gwen Moore Statement on Governor Walker's Push to Drug Test Recipients of Public Benefits
09/15/14"I find it shameful that Governor Walker has chosen to drug test our struggling Wisconsin families as a condition of eligibility for vital, life-saving social services. The insinuation that those battling poverty are somehow more susceptible to substance abuse is as absurd as it is offensive. Drug addition and subsistence abuse knows no economic or social distinctions. This discriminatory policy is devoid of any scientific credibility and has proven in the past to be fiscally irresponsible and a colossal waste of our time."
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