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It's Not An Option (IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure)
IBD Editorials ^ | July 15, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

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.


When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

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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To: Cyber Liberty
I think all Heck is going to break loose when the insurance companies get wind of this. They will be spending furiously on TV ads. I’m popping corn.

What I don't understand is why the insurance companies aren't doing this already in anticipation of ObamaCare, especially with the 'RAT majority...

61 posted on 07/16/2009 1:45:26 PM PDT by nutmeg (How's all that "Hope" and "Change" working out for you, Comrade?)
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To: nutmeg

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.


62 posted on 07/16/2009 1:49:14 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: nutmeg

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.


63 posted on 07/16/2009 1:50:57 PM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: P-Marlowe; Kaslin; Dr. Eckleburg; blue-duncan

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.


64 posted on 07/16/2009 1:52:59 PM PDT by xzins (Chaplain Says: Jesus befriends all who ask Him for help.)
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To: beethovenfan

OLIGARCHY in 6 months. Amazing isn’t it! Buy more ammo.


65 posted on 07/16/2009 1:53:04 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Hufington Post has the bill on their site. The first 50 pages are up and they have links to all other pages. See, Health Care Bill Released
66 posted on 07/16/2009 1:54:51 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: astounded

Thank you for remembering us. God Bless you.


67 posted on 07/16/2009 1:58:21 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...
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.

68 posted on 07/16/2009 1:58:32 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: Girlene

That’s pretty interesting.


69 posted on 07/16/2009 2:00:05 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

You are not alone. I have been depressed for a few days and
truly not sleeping well.


70 posted on 07/16/2009 2:00:53 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

While I don’t wish you sleeplessness....I appreciate knowing I’m not alone. Most days I feel I am.


71 posted on 07/16/2009 2:02:17 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Red Steel; LiteKeeper; LTCJ; Thunder 6

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?


72 posted on 07/16/2009 2:04:49 PM PDT by xzins (Chaplain Says: Jesus befriends all who ask Him for help.)
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To: anniegetyourgun
I have been reading some local editorials implying that private care would be reduced to bankruptcy, but was hoping it was overdone.

Do you work in healthcare also?

73 posted on 07/16/2009 2:05:47 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: STARWISE

Breathtaking.

This can’t be allowed to pass.

It’s really, REALLY frightening.


74 posted on 07/16/2009 2:06:02 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Cyber Liberty

BTT


75 posted on 07/16/2009 2:06:47 PM PDT by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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To: SE Mom

Kind of like a novel or something.


76 posted on 07/16/2009 2:07:12 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: xzins

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....


77 posted on 07/16/2009 2:09:17 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: MarMema

Used to (though not direct patient care) - now I consult with that industry (and others).


78 posted on 07/16/2009 2:20:52 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Kaslin

We are living a nightmare only it is for real.


79 posted on 07/16/2009 2:36:51 PM PDT by Katarina (Sarah Palin and ElRushbo the true conservatives. Thank God for Conservative talk radio.)
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To: astounded
“parasite” is the proper term to use

but the parasites will have severe problems sucking dry bones in a few short years.

80 posted on 07/16/2009 2:42:29 PM PDT by alrea (20% unemployment called "change and hope" coming to a city near you)
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