I-2124 WILL TAKE AWAY LONG-TERM CARE BENEFITS FROM MILLIONS OF WASHINGTONIANS
Like Social Security and Medicare, Washington’s long-term care benefit is set up to allow seniors, and disabled or severely ill adults, to live with dignity and stability. I-2124 takes away a critical benefit that people and their families count on.
I-2124 is opposed by AARP, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, health organizations, doctors, nurses, and workers’ unions representing home health care workers, grocery workers, and more. Sign now to endorse No On 2124 and protect our long-term care benefits!
While political interests claim this is about giving people a choice, the truth is that I-2124 will:
- Harm people with pre-existing conditions, like cancer or diabetes, by taking away the only long-term care benefit available to them
- Take $8.1 billion from our long-term care benefits program, forcing premium hikes, and quickly bankrupting the program for everyone
- Take away benefits from more than 85% of working Washingtonians, nearly all of us
- Leave us at the mercy of for-profit insurance companies who jack up premiums and deny benefits by 50%, 100%, or even 300% without warning
- Make a 65-year-old retired couple pay, on average, $5,000 to $7,000 a year to keep access to their long term care benefit with a private insurance company
- Force us to pay out of pocket for homecare, wheelchairs, ramps, and other long-term care expenses
- Make us drain our savings, or sign over our homes, to qualify for Medicaid
ENDORSE NO ON 2124!
“I-2124 WILL LEAVE ME WITH NO OPTIONS, SINCE PRIVATE INSURANCE WON’T COVER MY PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.”
Anthony Jones, Renton