Posted on 03/23/2017 11:56:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON ― Republican leaders are eyeing last-minute changes to their health care bill in order to attract votes from conservative lawmakers, including removing the requirement that insurance companies cover maternity care for everyone.
Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, the insurance market was a bleak place for women. They often had to pay more than men for the same coverage. Only 12 percent of individual market plans covered maternity care. And it was completely legal for insurance companies to refuse coverage to women who were pregnant or might become pregnant in the future.
One of the ACA’s most celebrated features is that it attempted to fix this gender disparity. It created a list of 10 essential health benefits that all plans on the marketplace must cover. Pregnancy, maternity and newborn care are on that list. It also said that insurance plans must offer contraception at no cost, along with breastfeeding equipment and services.
These features would likely go away if the band of conservatives known as the House Freedom Caucus gets to change the GOP health care bill, the American Health Care Act, in the way that it wants. These lawmakers want to get rid of the 10 essential health benefits, which could lower premiums, and it’s a concession that President Donald Trump has reportedly said he would agree to.
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And her snarky comment that because the GOP was going to change ObamaCare, it was going to be tattooed on their heads.
I’d love to see a picture of Nancy with a Tattoo of the word, “AFFORDABLE” across her forhead. And, she has to be pointing her finger at her audience.
Before the law that forced companies to charge the same, women paid more for health insurance for the same reason men are charged more for car insurance - they tend to have more claims in that regard.
Nancy is pre-existing stupid
No, because thinking is way beyond her capability.
Pelosi is a preexisting idiot...
“Nancy Pelosi: GOP Health plan would make being a woman a preexisting condition” THAT’S MORE THAN BRUCE JENNER CAN SAY !! SNICKER
Huh? How would this keep insurers from demanding prior approval?
Not something the former House Madame would need to worry about.
What’s hilarious is the little harlot is technically right - if you’re a woman you are already have a pre-existing condition called a period, which in turn predisposes you to several other expensive conditions, and which is NO reason to go crying for government control of the industry.
You were born with different anatomy and different needs. Get the h3ll over it.
Well, they treat pregnancy as a disease.
She is finally reading proposed legislation? I don’t believe it Sheumer told her what to say.
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