the paperwork and regulation, allowing doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health providers to focus on providing high-quality care. It cracks down on abuse, reforms malpractice law and policy and outlaws insurance practices that hurt small businesses and imposes the first national standards for the protection of patient privacy and confidentiality in medical information and records. This plan that has been developed by this movement is under serious scrutiny by the people that dont want to see a change, mainly Republicans. Their main argument is that by allowing the states to run health care insurance agencies will run out of control.. Unfortunately, reforms have generally relied on increasing government control rather than expanding market choices. A review of nine states' reforms reveals a host of negative consequences: insurance premiums increase; access to medical care is not improved; jobs are lost; spending on Medicaid goes up; insurance companies leave the market; and medical care is explicitly rationed. The Republicans are completely against state run health care and are fighting for federal government health control. The Republican plan allows workers to keep their health insurance if they leave or lose their job, even if a worker has a pre- existing condition. Allows the self-employed to deduct from their taxes 80 percent of their health insurance premiums . Allows the self-employed and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to open tax-free Medical Savings Accounts to pay for routine medical expenses. In the year 2000, MSAs will be made available to businesses with more than 50 workers unless Congress prevents the expansion . Allows tax deductions for long-term health care, including nursing-home and home-health care. Fights fraud and abuse in the health care system and reduces burdensome paperwork.. The Republican national health plan that would be funded by the federal government and administered by the federal gover...
