Just more proof that we have, in fact, two parties:
The Government Party, and everyone else.
It's starting to feel like the election was a fraud, no matter who won.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/30/2010 9:56:46 AM PST by roses of sharon
House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law.
Cantor said there are certain elements of current law that will be included in the GOP plan, which he said will move simultaneously with a repeal measure through the House.
Provisions that Republicans will seek to retain include the barring of insurance companies from refusing coverage to patients with a pre-existing condition and allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
Speaking to more than 100 students at a town hall event at American University in Washington. D.C., Cantor responded to a question from a young woman who suffered from a chronic health condition by telling her, "We want to keep the pre-existing condition clause."
Cantor also told the woman that under the GOP plan, she should be able stay either "on a parent's health insurance" or be offered "another, equally affordable solution.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Any part of the bill that survives is nothing more than “not getting it all” after a cancer operation. Whatever is left will mutate and/or spread into something just as diabolical.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The other problem is people will wait until they get sick to buy a policy and then drop it after they get healthy cause they know whenever they get sick they will be insured again.
I emailed this to Rush, the hill copy. He is fast! Leading off with it. Says we will be infuriated.
Apparently the Pubbies have forgotten what happened in the last election. To force insurance companies to provide insurance for anyone with prexisting illnesses and provide insurance for 26year olds will bankrupt insurance companies causing a flight to a one payer government program.
Im listening, nice job!!!
Is there anyone to run against him in 2012? I am ready to send money today.
Rush is talking about this right now. 1:10 EST
Very complicated problem and it is a Catch 22.
When carriers went from Non Profit to for profit they became very strict on who they would accept. 10-15 years ago I would enroll say 6-7 people out of every 10 that applied. In the last few years maybe 2 out of 10. Conditions that carriers accepted 10 years ago are no declines.
As the rates increase each year the young healthy people drop off...leading to you guessed it even higher rates. In my state for instance for every $1 you actually receive in services from a hospital, the hospital has to bill private insurance $1.77 to make up for all the people with no insurance. The trick is to get people insured before they have their pre-condition and not allow them to enroll after they are diagnosed. As Rush said buying insurance after you had the accident expecting it to pay for the accident. Also Pushing preventive care has really helped. That is why carriers now pay for services such as adult physicals at 100% without it going towards a deductible.
Rush is covering this on his show. Calling it welfare.
The tissue box?
I like emailing Rush, today’s first time I know it worked, I am positive I am not alone though, he probably got tons.
I love Rush.
I'm a cancer patient who has benefitted tremendously from my health insurance provided by BCBS. I've not had one hiccup in almost 5 years...every surgery, treatment and scan..CT, PET and MRI has been paid for, no questions asked. I really appreciate what's been done for me. HOWEVER, I have had health insurance for over 30 years and never used it all except for an annual checkup prior to my diagnois. Had I dropped my insurance prior to that because I didn't see the value in paying for something I wasn't using I would have been refused a policy if I tried to enroll after my diagnosis. And rightly so.
Nobody is condemning cancer patients to death. Sick people (adults) who try to buy insurance after they find out they're sick should have to pay the consequences for their irresponsibility. And every parent should preach this lesson to their kids.
I can understand the 26 year old if you think about college and graduate and post graduate school.
If we are revitalizing the extended family with multiple generations around the daily dinner table it makes logic.
Just more proof that we have, in fact, two parties:
The Government Party, and everyone else.
It's starting to feel like the election was a fraud, no matter who won.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but...
My understanding was that pre-existing conditions were covered already - if you had health insurance at the time they were diagnosed which covered it. In other words, if you were diagnosed with cancer under company A, and you employer changed over to company B, you were still covered.
It was only if you had no insurance and were diagnosed with cancer, and then tried to get coverage, that your prexisting condition was not covered.
What the government health care advocates want is for any condition to be covered, regardless of whether you had insurance or not, which would not encourage people to have insurance, but to wait until they got sick and then buy insurance.
First, repeal Obamacare. I pray each night that the exclusion clause is upheld and the whole thing is overturned.
Second, any new bill will likely have some of the old...and a LOT more of what wasn’t in the first. I’m not against have children stay on a parent’s plan longer...maybe not until 27 but the younger ages will help lower the risk pool and lower costs. Tort reform MUST be in any new bill, healthcare spending accounts, etc.
I won’t start throwing rocks at Cantor because they say some of the old will be in the Republican plan.
Read Bobby Jindahl’s 10 suggestions. I believe he IS qualified to speak on healthcare policy, his grad work was in healthcare policy. (link below).
Give these guys a chance...
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Rush might have read it here.
Called Boehner’s, now calling my congresscritter who is a member of the tea party caucus.
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