Current System: Health Care
Health care costs are increasing faster than your income
- Cost for a family plan has nearly tripled since 2000.
- $300 in 2000, now over $850
- Small business plans have increased 200% over the last 11 years.
- $106 in 1997, now over $314.
- Health care eats up 35 percent of the state budget ($13 billion)
- 600,000 Washingtonians are uninsured.
- Health insurance doesn't follow you to a new job.
- If you have coverage, it still might not be good enough.
Our health system is not designed for the 21st century
21st Century Vision: Bring health care into the 21st century
- Coverage for everyone
- Coverage that you own, not government.
- Coverage that fits your needs.
- Coverage that you don't lose if you change or lose a job.
- Coverage you can afford.
21st Century Solutions: Delivering real choice and real change
- Increase access to Health Savings Accounts.
- Assist small employers and the self employed with tax incentives on health care premiums.
- Reduce health insurance costs by limiting state mandates on health insurance policies.
- Increase access to quality health information so you can make the best decision
for you and your family.
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