Posted on 06/08/2016 11:07:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to sharply limit short-term health insurance plans, which a growing number of consumers have been buying even though they offer less coverage than what the Affordable Care Act decreed, all people should have.
The plans, designed for people in between jobs or in need of temporary insurance until they secure a regular policy, are cheaper than regular insurance plans. But they also can lack features that the health law requires for other policies, such as coverage for preexisting medical conditions, maternity care and prescription drugs. In addition, insurers are allowed to refuse to sell short-term plans to people they think will run up large medical costs, and insurers can also cap the maximum amount they will pay. Both practices are banned for regular policies under the health law.
The Department of Health and Human Services said under its proposal, short-term health policies could be written for no longer than three months, instead of up to a year as is currently allowed. In addition, consumers would not be able to renew the policies. The department said it plans to require insurers to clearly tell consumers that the plans do not qualify as coverage under the health law and that they may still face a tax penalty if that is the only insurance they have.
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FUBO
I don’t care what the Supreme Court thinks - it’s unconstitutional to force me to purchase something because I EXIST!
Why don’t we force the homeless to buy housing insurance?
Why don’t we force the poor to buy food insurance?
This is madness and Obamacare needs to be destroyed and the ground it was built on sowed with salt so such a horrible thing like this can never happen again.
No government should be able to fine me or bar me from buying any insurance coverage that could save my life.
Insurance is a product that could be purchased outside the USA.
“Why don’t we force the homeless to buy housing insurance?”
“Why don’t we force the poor to buy food insurance?”
Michelle Obama worked for a hospital, not an apartment complex or grocery store.
These leftist liberals who scream “equality” insist they deserve to be paid ten or twenty times more than the rest of society.
The article doesn’t mention what happens to people that get hardship exemptions. They don’t have to pay the “tax” and have been eligible to buy the plans.
LGBT Alert?
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