It's time for Congress to put a stop to health insurance companies discriminating based on age! Americans aged 50 to 64 are currently charged five times or more for health insurance than a younger person -- just because of their age.
It's a practice called "age rating," which insurance companies use to deliberately make health care more expensive for older Americans, driving up the ranks of the uninsured among them. And it must change.
Because people develop health problems as they age, and because people with insurance tend to be healthier, failing to provide affordable health care for people age 50 to 64 will simply mean they'll get sicker and their care will cost more once they become eligible for Medicare. It also means that many Americans won't get the care they need when they need it.
That's why Congress must provide older Americans with a choice of health care plans they can afford. It's simply wrong to discriminate based on someone's age. Sign the petition below to tell Congress to give all Americans access to affordable health care and end discriminatory insurance practices!
We took action on “End Discriminatory Health Insurance Practices”!
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10:33 pm PST, Feb 9,Angela Guidroz, Louisiana
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12:05 pm PST, Feb 9,Name not displayed, California
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10:47 am PST, Feb 7,Mandana Alaudini, California
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6:41 pm PST, Jan 31,Sandra Rose, Virginia
I am one of the "victims" and I resent the heck out of it.!! I'm 64, healthy as a horse and am lumped in with 20 something high risk pregnancy women.
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1:22 pm PST, Jan 30,Angelo Feldkamp, New Mexico
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4:30 pm PST, Jan 27,Aaeron Robb, Maryland
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12:14 am PST, Jan 27,Conni Kilman, Colorado
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8:37 am PST, Jan 26,Rachel Hinton, New York
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10:42 pm PST, Jan 25,Name not displayed, California
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9:43 pm PST, Jan 25,Natashia Ju, New York
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12:32 am PST, Jan 20,Rebecca Fowler, Australia
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11:45 pm PST, Jan 17,Larry Reinhardt-Meyer, California
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10:23 am PST, Jan 17,Name not displayed, Missouri
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6:34 am PST, Jan 16,Jodie St Jean, Canada
Insurance is legalized crime!!! The government continues to let the companies deny, deny, deny, then inflate, inflate , inflate - it makes me sick how many die needlessly in the US because the government allows these insurance companies to run like loan sharks.
# 13,761:
5:45 pm PST, Jan 15,Taylor Brooks, Sweden
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8:49 am PST, Jan 3,Annmarie Little, Idaho
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8:54 pm PST, Jan 1,Katayun Salehi, Illinois
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5:46 am PST, Jan 1,Cindy Sullivan, Pennsylvania
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7:38 pm PST, Dec 23,Tara West, Oregon
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3:20 pm PST, Dec 19,Name not displayed, New York
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12:18 am PST, Dec 15,Elisa Faulkner-Uriarte, California
Put a stop to age discrimination.
# 13,754:
3:13 pm PST, Dec 14,Marilyn Bernstein, Massachusetts