WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WHEN PEOPLE HAVE LEVERAGE
Affordable Healthcare
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Complete the Affordable Healthcare Survey
Only the first three questions are required — the rest are optional and you can stop whenever you like. You do not have to sign anything to be counted.
Prefer to read first? The full explanation and a section-by-section preview are below.
The problem
Healthcare costs too much.
Too many people delay care because they cannot afford to use the insurance they already pay for.
Routine care should not cost thousands of dollars a year.
The proposed pathway
Qualified telehealth services are available for approximately $49 per month—or about $600 per year—for many routine-care needs. PHIERS is developing a voluntary pathway to make that access broadly available while preserving comprehensive protection for care telehealth cannot provide. The approximately $600 figure covers routine TeleCARE access. It does not represent the total cost of complete healthcare coverage.
The PHIERS 80/20 Care Principle
Most appropriate routine healthcare needs can be handled through qualified TeleCARE at far lower cost. In-person, hospital, emergency, specialty, and catastrophic care remain protected for the needs TeleCARE cannot meet.
- Participation is always voluntary.
- Qualified TeleCARE handles appropriate routine care.
- In-person, hospital, emergency, specialty, and catastrophic care stay protected for what TeleCARE cannot meet.
- Broad access across CMS-supported programs is what gives the pathway the scale to matter.
- PHIERS measures and reports actual participation, costs, outcomes, and verified savings.
- No savings figure is presented as fact until it is independently verified.
- Verified savings are protected from diversion.
- The public’s documented direction helps determine how verified savings are used.
- Savings are one potential source of relief — not a prerequisite for immediate help.
What we ask Congress to authorize
Authorize HHS and CMS to make qualified TeleCARE available now as a voluntary routine-care pathway throughout applicable CMS-supported healthcare programs, while preserving comprehensive and catastrophic protection for care TeleCARE cannot provide.
How it would work
Use the right level of care.
Handle appropriate routine needs through affordable telehealth.
Keep serious care protected.
Preserve hospital, emergency, specialty, and catastrophic coverage.
Measure the savings.
Document what people and the healthcare system actually save.
Put the savings to work.
Lower member costs, strengthen protection, and help more people obtain care.
Protection promises
- Participation remains voluntary.
- TeleCARE does not equal complete health insurance.
- Nobody should surrender comprehensive coverage before replacement protection is active.
- Licensed providers deliver care.
- Licensed insurers or qualified risk-bearing partners cover catastrophic expenses.
- People see benefits, limitations, exclusions, and costs before deciding.
- PHIERS reports actual results.
- Members help determine how verified savings are used.
See What We Are Asking Before You Begin
You can read every part of the survey before you answer anything. Only the first three sections are required — the rest are optional and you can stop whenever you like.
You can complete the survey without signing anything.
Sign the Affordable Healthcare Petition
The petition asks the House to create or authorize a voluntary pathway for HHS and CMS to test affordable, telehealth-first routine access alongside continuous comprehensive and catastrophic protection — and to require public reporting of costs, access, outcomes, savings, decisions, conflicts of interest, and what happens to verified savings.
Signing shows your support for the petition. It is not agreement with every design detail, and it is a separate act from the survey — you can sign without completing every optional section.
Sign the Affordable Healthcare PetitionAdd your name to show how many stand behind the request.
Tell us what you want decision-makers to do.
PHIERS will track what they say, what they do, and what changes.
What your participation makes possible
You answer.
You sign.
You share.
Then PHIERS can put your numbers to work.
PHIERS may organize responses by district, show Representatives what people want, deliver the documented priorities, seek direct answers, track commitments and actions through PAM, report results, and notify people when action is useful.
Your answers are private. Public reporting is aggregate or deidentified unless you separately consent. Granting one permission never signs you up for anything else.
Follow What Happens
Coming SoonThe public record will show survey results, petition totals by district, responses from Representatives and candidates, congressional and regulatory decisions, pilot results, verified savings, participant direction for those savings, and PAM’s continuing record.