Posted on 06/26/2017 10:41:17 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Senate Republicans on Monday released a revised version of their healthcare bill that adds a provision requiring consumers with a break in coverage to wait six months before buying insurance.
The Senate bill would make those who had a lapse in coverage for 63 days or more wait six months before obtaining insurance. (Read the bill here.)
The continuous coverage provision was noticeably omitted from the Senate’s draft, but aides said they were working behind the scenes to add it. The provision addresses concerns that people would only sign up for health coverage when they’re sick if insurers can't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.
The addition of the six month waiting period could make it more difficult to pass the legislation, if the Senate parliamentarian rules the provision violates the complex budget reconciliation rules. Republican leadership was working over the weekend to make sure the provision complies with the rules and can be included.
It’s unclear whether Senate Republicans will have the votes to pass the bill, with at least five Senate Republicans on record as opposing the bill in its current form.
On Monday, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) doubled down that a vote will be this week.
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to issue its analysis of the bill as soon as Monday.
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more fu**king fascism....
definitely NOT what the federal government is there to do
Government, get the hell out of my life and stay the hell out of my life.
Seems like the Republicans were against the individual mandate before they were for it.
If people cannot be denied coverage due to a preexisting condition then the government has to force people to buy insurance. As simple as that.
I do not comply nor will I comply
It may not be the case, but it sure seems like the Senate Rs are lost, just clueless about everything wrt the 0bamacare insurance scam repeal.
First, _something_ must get passed or we get no meaningful tax reform [what the dems are hoping for]
Second, they will have to pass 2-3 bills to get rid of it - this is just the first step.
If we get nothing on 0bamacare repeal and nothing on tax reform, the incumbents will suffer in 2018.
WTF?!
Sorry, the unelected Senate parliamentarian should not and does not have the final say on what qualifies under reconciliation.
Or no one will buy serious insurance until a serious conditions develops.
No, no, no ,no, nooooo.
Sorry, the provision is NOT an individual mandate to buy insurance,
More Obamacare, please........./s
The Liberal Media will immediately brand this the “death gap” and the first time someone dies while waiting out the six months we’ll NEVER hear the end of it.
When i was a kid, I had a preexitsing condition. I was able to get insurance tho the insurance wouldn't cover said preeixisting condition until i'd been covered 6 months.
Why can't it be that way again?
THIS....is not acceptable.
A penalty for going uninsured means that merely being alive violates the law.
Any bill that passes that doesn’t have an opt-out for people who are not interested in the latest flavor of pharmacological Fascism is DOA.
It sounds like it kind of is but maybe I’m wrong. what is it then?
Oh gourd damn it.
Hope the House tears it right back out in reconciliation.
From what I read, it IS slightly better than Obamacare still. Probably will still get signed. May even lower premiums and make insurance affordable.
But you jackasses were supposed to REMOVE the mandate!
Mother pheasant plucking GOP establishment.
So what exactly are you objecting to? It’s only reasonable if you let your insurance lapse there would be a waiting period before a new policy would go into effect. What is wrong with that
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