Not likely, the Insurance companies will just raise the rates to a level which allows them to continue on as usual.
This is exactly what they did after Congress passed HIPPA.
After Cobra, they had to offer you a policy but the policy was priced at $3000.00 per month, so you had to submit to underwriting to get something more affordable.
You need to understand that the Insurance Companies have one of the strongest and most effective lobbies in the USA. They just got 31 million new customers, so they are smiling like the cat that ate the canary, and like a cat, they will land on their feet regardless of what the courts do.
31 million new customers, in four years.
Not true. I’m in the industry. You’re analysis of COBRA law isn’t accurate, first off: By law, a person leaving employment must be offered the identical plan his employer offered, only at that point his employer doesn’t kick in for any of the premium (i.e. the employee pays the full premium). You are correct though, in that insurance is expensive...
Secondly, health insurers know that this bill puts them in the crosshairs. Its DESIGNED to put all private insurance out of business. Take Rush’s advice on this.
The pre-existing condition clause is death blow to the idea of health “insurance.” In states like MN, there exists high risk pools (MCHA program) for people with cancer, etc.... This is a much better option, in my opinion, than having the feds decide how to run an insurance company. Can they run an auto company? Bank? Anything?
I’m praying for Mark Levin, and also for the guys at Heritage. Donating too. I’m also praying for the birthers, yes those much-maligned patriots (you know, the ones who care about article II, as well as the article I) who interestingly, might end up playing the most devestating trump card of all. (ok, call me crazy after that last part- i don’t care. The truth is the truth.)
Heritage has it exactly right: What passed last night is nothing less than a 21st century Intolerable Act. King Obama didn’t grow up in America, doesn’t know our values, and has no idea about the kind of steel hidden just beneath the surface of his “subjects.” He and Nancy are about to learn all about the motto of old Gadsden.
Don’t Tread on Me.