Nevada AG pressured to NOT file state lawsuit against Health Care Reform
A dozen community and labor groups from Nevada have signed onto a letter to Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto urging her to support, not file suit, over federal health care reform.
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons this week demanded the Attorney General join a lawsuit filed by 14 other Attorneys General to block implementation of federal health care reform, a package of changes that critics of the lawsuits claim are needed in Nevada, where an estimated 400,000 men, women and children lack health insurance coverage.
“This is something that is long overdue and can really help people in my situation,” said Howard Watts III, a University of Nevada-Las Vegas student who can now be insured through his parent’s policy. “Many of us face bankruptcy or simply go without health care because we can’t afford or get the insurance – not just students, but people all over this state.”
The reforms allow young people up to 26 years to be covered by parental insurance policies, eliminate lifetime and annual caps on coverage and eliminate cruel “rescissions” of coverage on paid policies.
“It is unfortunate that Gov. Gibbons has chosen to side with insurance companies rather than the people who elected him,” said Jan Gilbert, Northern Nevada organizer for the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
PLAN joins Business Advocating Social Equity, Culinary Workers Union Local 226, Family TIES of Nevada, Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Great Basin Resource Watch, Nevada Advocates for Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Nevada Lawyers for Progressive Policy, Nevada State Education Association, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada, and Public Resource Associates in the letter to Attorney General Cortez-Masto.
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