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8.1.10. We support itemized billing of all charges
and taxes of insurance premiums. 8.2. We oppose:
8.2.1. Government mandates that require the purchase of health insurance and the financial penalty for not purchasing health insurance;
8.2.2. Compulsory national health insurance, including laws requiring all individuals or employers to purchase health insurance, and a national health plan in any form; and
8.2.3. Efforts to exclude family members and the owners of other businesses from receiving the Small Employer Health Insurance tax credit under IRS Form 8941 which was passed under the Affordable Care Act.
9. Medicare/Medicaid 9.1. We support:
9.1.1. Allowing Medicare recipients to opt out of Medicare and purchase private insurance actuarially equivalent to Medicare with Medicare paying the premium;
9.1.2. Incentives to Medicare recipients to allow them to participate in private or alternative plans;
9.1.3. The active prosecution of Medicare and Medicaid fraud;
9.1.4. Patients receiving billings from physicians and other health
care providers or health care services before Medicare pays to
help eliminate account balance discrepancies;
9.1.5. Block grants to the states to administer the Medicaid program
as they see best;
9.1.6. Efforts to eliminate cost shifting from Medicaid and Medicare to
individuals and third-party payers;
9.1.7. Eliminating the waiting period for those who transfer or sell
property to relatives in order to qualify for Medicaid;
9.1.8. Medicaid assuming nursing home expenses for a person
whose net worth has been reduced to $20,000;
9.1.9. Allowing a spouse to retain up to $96,000 in countable assets
(not including home, burial trust, life insurance and one vehicle) with the remainder eligible for spousal support of nursing home costs;
9.1.10. Equitable Medicare payments to rural hospitals and physicians, as well as revised rates to narrow the pay gap;
9.1.11. Adequate funding under Medicare to continue home health
services for the home-bound and elderly;
9.1.12. Medical industry acceptance of Medicare assignments;
9.1.13. Medicare and Medicaid coverage for prescription drug and
medical costs with a deductible or co-pay;
9.1.14. Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid properly
compensating providers in a timely manner;
9.1.15. Full deductibility of Medicare co-pays and deductibles instead
of treating them as hospital bad debt;
9.1.16. Medicare coverage for preventive examinations;
9.1.17. The federal government assumes a larger percentage of the
costs associated with Medicaid; and
9.1.18. Utilizing net income and not gross income when determining
Medicare payments.
9.2. We oppose:
9.2.1. Any expansion of Medicare;
9.2.2. Medicare tax increases;
9.2.3. Increasing Medicaid eligibility, in an effort to have national
health care reform, that would result in increased cost shifting
to the states;
9.2.4. Any reduction of Medicare provider reimbursement;
9.2.5. A mandatory medical identification system;
9.2.6. Efforts to restrict the ability to privately contract with a
physician or other health care provider for medical service
beyond Medicare-approved treatment;
9.2.7. Medicare being able to limit a medical doctor's or other non-
physician provider's ability to treat a patient;
9.2.8. Reducing Medicare funding to help support another national
health care program; and
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