Letter: Bill supports biomarker testing
This letter originally ran in the Lincoln Journal Star.
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New Poll Shows Voters Support Expanding Access to Affordable Health Care
February 4, 2013
A new poll revealed that a majority of voters want their state to accept money from the federal government that will allow more hard-working, low-income families to obtain affordable health care coverage.
The poll conducted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network surveyed voters in seven states. A majority of respondents in each state supported their governor and state legislature accepting the federal funding.
Every state is being offered federal money to increase the number of people who can access affordable health care coverage through the Medicaid program. For the next three years, the federal government will pay 100% of the costs of the expanded coverage. Then, the federal government will continue to pay 90% of the costs.
If the states accept the federal funds that are being offered to increase access to affordable health coverage, millions of families would be given the security of knowing they can get the care and treatments they need without having to worry about huge medical bills.
We talked to people in Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Texas and, by large margins, they agreed by large margins that their legislators should accept the money, so their states could cover more uninsured people and save millions in taxpayer dollars.
Many of those polled indicated that while they are insured, many know someone who is uninsured or is currently accesses health care through Medicaid suggesting that this issue hits close to home for many people.
Read a summary of the poll results.