Posted on 07/15/2009 5:48:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
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What I don't understand is why the insurance companies aren't doing this already in anticipation of ObamaCare, especially with the 'RAT majority...
The text of the bill had to come out first. You can’t attack a provision of a bill until it’s been published, because it can always be edited out before release of the text. That was only two days ago.
Are you shocked? We all knew this would happen. Question is..what can we do about it? We are witnessing the end our our republic..And we scoffed at the comparisons to the fall of Rome. They fought barbarians. We are disintegrating from within.
And large unionized corporations are among the ones pushing this as a way to share their costs out of the public trough. Additionally, now-socialist “foundation-rich” and inheritance-rich scions of wealth and privilege, such as the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, the Heinzs, etc. are fully behind this because it will entrench them as a rich upper class aristocracy, since advancement in socialist America will now be much harder to accomplish.
OLIGARCHY in 6 months. Amazing isn’t it! Buy more ammo.
Thank you for remembering us. God Bless you.
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
That’s pretty interesting.
You are not alone. I have been depressed for a few days and
truly not sleeping well.
While I don’t wish you sleeplessness....I appreciate knowing I’m not alone. Most days I feel I am.
I am guessing that all of the military, especially the retired, were promised health care will have it handled by the new program. No one said HOW our retiree health plan had to be provided. My guess, then, is that Tri-Care will be replaced by Gov’t health care.
Anyone have anything authoritative on that?
Do you work in healthcare also?
Breathtaking.
This can’t be allowed to pass.
It’s really, REALLY frightening.
BTT
Kind of like a novel or something.
Yes. It looks like that to me...that Obama has put the military retirees into the same lines and programs as everyone else. I’ll bet that the congress critter are exempt though....
Used to (though not direct patient care) - now I consult with that industry (and others).
We are living a nightmare only it is for real.
but the parasites will have severe problems sucking dry bones in a few short years.
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