Posted on 03/23/2017 11:56:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON ― Republican leaders are eyeing last-minute changes to their health care bill in order to attract votes from conservative lawmakers, including removing the requirement that insurance companies cover maternity care for everyone.
Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, the insurance market was a bleak place for women. They often had to pay more than men for the same coverage. Only 12 percent of individual market plans covered maternity care. And it was completely legal for insurance companies to refuse coverage to women who were pregnant or might become pregnant in the future.
One of the ACA’s most celebrated features is that it attempted to fix this gender disparity. It created a list of 10 essential health benefits that all plans on the marketplace must cover. Pregnancy, maternity and newborn care are on that list. It also said that insurance plans must offer contraception at no cost, along with breastfeeding equipment and services.
These features would likely go away if the band of conservatives known as the House Freedom Caucus gets to change the GOP health care bill, the American Health Care Act, in the way that it wants. These lawmakers want to get rid of the 10 essential health benefits, which could lower premiums, and it’s a concession that President Donald Trump has reportedly said he would agree to.
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Please keep talking Nancy. I really want more seats in the house and senate in 2018.
How would she know what being a woman was or was not?
Pelosi is the epitome of an idiot.
No need to worry Nancy. You have your own special plan.
Caitlyn Jenner begs to disagree.
We all have pre-existing conditions that guarantee our death.
But I don’t need maternity care...
Obamacare makes the young pay for the old and men pay for women, for those who decide to comply.
Young people can just wait till they get sick to get Obamacare and many do.
Is these strange days, Nan, it depends what a woman is.
Pelosi is a pre-existing condition.
They used to call it “criminal lunacy” in the old days, but society has become more understanding and tries to integrate sufferers into society. Some, like Pelosi herself, have been able to advance quite far.
As opposed to her plan which makes me pay for pregnancy and abortion coverage. Women cost more because they use their healthcare more.
The old victim group warfare tactic.
Pray America woke
Isn’t it? Until some mentally defective tries to change it . . . which it can’t.
What’s she talking about?
I thought men and women are the same.
And body parts don’t matter.
And bathrooms aren’t meant for certain body parts.
And men need tampons for our periods.
What could possibly be different in the health insurance needs of men and women? (I mean people-with-penises and people-with-vaginas)
If insurers treat “men” and “women” differently, people-with-vaginas can just identify as a “man” for the better rate. Or Pelosi can identify as a “women” if “women” get better rates.
Right, Nanzi... in much the same way being a dumbass is a pre-existing condition for all libtards.
My late mom aways asked why God wasted an ample bosun on that nasty pelosi women
Does she sit down and think what the most stupid thing she could say would be?
And gosh, for some reason, plan prices kept rising and rising... I wonder why? Could it be because of these 'essential health benefits' rather than the existing system where such coverage was optional?
Why a maternity rider could cost as much as $1,600 a month for a 44 year old woman... because it was a 44 year old woman having a baby and the risks of complications was much higher than say a 20 year old woman which had a rider of only $220 a month (essentially pre-paying for the maternity ward and delivery costs with a small premium to cover unexpected complications.)
Of course, males needed maternity coverage as well, as it would be sexist to base a calculation of risk based upon such incalculable variables as someone's gender...
Contraceptives for everyone! Simply calculate what a monthly prescription would run, add a bit on top to cover paperwork and any special needs - oh, wait, are devices covered? Assume implant and removal surgery for everyone and price accordingly.
Please, Pelosi, keep defending PelosiCare. Those 10 Rat senators fighting for reelection will appreciate your efforts.
What a sexist statement.
The woman passed a bill into law that has not provided one cent to pay for my medical care.
Not one cent!
Now she expects me to pay higher premiums for other people’s care.
Crazy woman!
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