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Harry Reid Inserts Lifetime Limits (Death Sentence?) in Health Care Bill
FDL Action ^ | 12/12/09 | Jane Hamsher

Posted on 12/12/2009 12:21:47 PM PST by Cecilia Trent

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To: dawn53
Truth is most insurance policies already have lifetime limits. Reid really isn’t changing anything from the status quo.

Yes, this is different from the status quo. Today's insurance companies are upfront about limits. Our government is telling us there will be no limits, and according to the article this provision is buried in a section entitled “No lifetime or annual limits.” Typically, this is called "fraud".

Secondly, the bill reportedly allows drug companies to block anyone from ever creating cheaper generic drugs. So people reliant on these medicines will reach their limits more quickly because the less expensive drugs will be withheld from them forever. At least they will be illegal in the US. You would have to make drug runs to Mexico to get your life-saving medications.

gitmo

21 posted on 12/12/2009 1:00:17 PM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: Cecilia Trent

That is a pretty darned liberal blog too... They are working for a public option... and still are blasting this...


22 posted on 12/12/2009 1:20:42 PM PST by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Cecilia Trent

Harrys getting up there, if passed I would love to see him denied and watch him slowly fade away in excruciating pain.


23 posted on 12/12/2009 1:25:31 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Leaders who refuse to lead will be lead by the people)
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To: Cecilia Trent

This doesn’t surprise me one bit.


24 posted on 12/12/2009 1:45:13 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Political Correctness is being used to destroy our country/It's time to put CHRIST back in CHRISTmas)
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To: WHBates

First bath they’ve had in awhile.


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26 posted on 12/12/2009 2:15:15 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!<p>)
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To: Cecilia Trent

The dems don’t care about peoples’ health. They care about 2 things:
government control over health care
transferring money from those who earn it to those who vote democrat


27 posted on 12/12/2009 2:21:07 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping to such awful stuff?

Thank you, I guess.


28 posted on 12/12/2009 2:40:06 PM PST by 3D-JOY
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To: gitmo

I know about drug costs. I have MS, and even though the drug I take has been on the market since the mid 90’s there is still no generic...costs average around $2500 per month. This is the explanation they give as to why there probably will never be a generic.

http://multiple-sclerosis.emedtv.com/betaseron/generic-betaseron.html


29 posted on 12/12/2009 3:27:32 PM PST by dawn53
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To: Cecilia Trent

m0r0ns, every one of them.

Do they not realize or maybe they DO, that the drug companies aren’t going to spend money on creating new medications for old and new illnesses because of this Health Care Bill.

These Liberals are dumber than m0r0ns! They’re gonna get sick and there won’t be a cure for them because of this Health Care bill.

We have to work HARD in 2010 and we need to be sure our STATES are being governed by Conservative Governors and Legislators.


30 posted on 12/12/2009 7:04:58 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
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To: Cecilia Trent

PLEASE inundate Congress with emails about this.

I’ll be so glad when Harry Reid is deposed. He is just pure evil for doing this.


31 posted on 12/12/2009 7:10:20 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
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To: HighlyOpinionated

Well, the good people of the State of Nevada elected him to be one of their Senators. And when the time comes they will elect him again.


32 posted on 12/12/2009 7:41:30 PM PST by sport
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To: USNBandit

“What happens when the government treats that lifetime limit like they have AMT. If they don’t adjust the limit we will all eventually come up against the limit. Then only the super rich will survive.”

IIRC, under the Health Care Bill you are not allowed to spend your own money over and above their benefits.(Except for deductibles.)


33 posted on 12/12/2009 7:54:54 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: BnBlFlag

So the super rich will have to travel to some resort clinic.


34 posted on 12/12/2009 8:19:51 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

That’s about it.


35 posted on 12/12/2009 10:24:57 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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