{"id":6817,"date":"2010-03-24T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/newsroom-statements-much-needed-improvements-to-the-health-care-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:06:52","slug":"newsroom-statements-much-needed-improvements-to-the-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/newsroom-statements-much-needed-improvements-to-the-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mejoras muy necesarias al proyecto de ley de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Es un placer venir y unirme a mis colegas aqu\u00ed en la sala. S\u00e9 que cuando todos mis colegas regresan a casa, escuchan historias de sus electores sobre nuestro fallido sistema de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, y eso es ciertamente lo que escucho. Lo escucho en mis ayuntamientos, lo escucho en la calle cuando la gente me para para compartir sus historias y ciertamente lo escucho en mi correo.<\/p>\n<p>Estas son s\u00f3lo algunas de las historias que me han enviado los ciudadanos de Oreg\u00f3n, s\u00f3lo para darles una idea del tipo de frustraci\u00f3n que estamos escuchando.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;El a\u00f1o pasado&quot;, escribe Don, &quot;mi prima aument\u00f3 un 65 por ciento a pesar de que no hice ning\u00fan reclamo significativo contra mi p\u00f3liza&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>O podemos recurrir a Jane, quien dice: &quot;Estamos expuestos a que nos rechacen el seguro m\u00e9dico porque tengo una enfermedad cr\u00f3nica&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>O a Adrienne, quien observa que \u201cla deuda m\u00e9dica era abrumadora y nos vimos obligados a declararnos en quiebra\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>O a Amanda, quien dice: \u201cMi hija se cort\u00f3 el dedo. La llev\u00e9 a emergencias, el hospital es un proveedor de la red, el m\u00e9dico de emergencias dijo que necesitaba cirug\u00eda. Vale, \u00bfqu\u00e9 s\u00e9 yo? Ellos son los expertos. Resulta que la cirujana no era proveedora de la red, me factur\u00f3 m\u00e1s de $9,000. Tengo pocas esperanzas. \u00bfMe declaro en quiebra?<\/p>\n<p>O Art, que dice: \u201cEn menos de cinco a\u00f1os, tuve que cambiar mi seguro m\u00e9dico cinco veces. Nunca fue una cuesti\u00f3n de elecci\u00f3n, simplemente tuve que aceptar cualquier plan que mi empleador decidiera ofrecerme\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>O Dagne, quien observa: \u201cCuando comenc\u00e9 a contratar mi seguro, ten\u00eda preguntas como: &#039;\u00bfAlguna vez has tenido?&#039;, por ejemplo, tuve asma\u201d, y contin\u00faa describiendo sus desaf\u00edos.<\/p>\n<p>Y la lista sigue y sigue y sigue. Y es por eso que estamos en este di\u00e1logo sobre atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, porque necesitamos arreglar un sistema de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica que no funciona para los trabajadores estadounidenses. Ahora el proyecto de ley que hemos aprobado y que el presidente ha firmado tiene tres cosas estupendas:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crea mercados estatales para pol\u00edticas de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, donde los consumidores pueden comprar la mejor pol\u00edtica. Y estos mercados aumentar\u00e1n las opciones y la competencia. En segundo lugar, el proyecto de ley pone fin a las pr\u00e1cticas de las compa\u00f1\u00edas de seguros que victimizan a nuestras familias trabajadoras, pr\u00e1cticas como rechazar a personas por condiciones preexistentes o sacarlas de sus p\u00f3lizas cuando se lesionan o cuando tienen una enfermedad. Y en tercer lugar, invierte en nuestra fuerza laboral de proveedores para contrarrestar la r\u00e1pida jubilaci\u00f3n de los baby boomers. En Oreg\u00f3n vamos a perder el 20 por ciento de nuestros m\u00e9dicos de atenci\u00f3n primaria en los pr\u00f3ximos cinco a\u00f1os, mientras que muchos de nosotros, como baby boomers, vamos a necesitar m\u00e1s atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica. Entonces esas cosas son enormes desaf\u00edos.<\/p>\n<p>Este proyecto de ley da un paso adelante. Es muy significativo. Y esta semana trabajaremos para aprobar en una votaci\u00f3n positiva un proyecto de ley que introducir\u00e1 mejoras adicionales a un proyecto de ley que el presidente firm\u00f3 ayer. Por eso, me complace unirme a mis colegas en esta lucha para reparar un sistema de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica fallido que simplemente no funciona para nuestros ciudadanos trabajadores.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a pleasure to come and join my colleagues here on the floor.&nbsp; I know that when all of my colleagues go home, they hear stories from their constituents about our broken health care system, and that&rsquo;s certainly what I hear.&nbsp; I hear it in my town halls, I hear it on the street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-health-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Much Needed Improvements to the Health Care Bill - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/newsroom-statements-much-needed-improvements-to-the-health-care-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Much Needed Improvements to the Health Care Bill - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is a pleasure to come and join my colleagues here on the floor.&nbsp; 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