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Health Care to "Control The People"
by Yizuman 83 Replies latest jw friends
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Yizuman
Gap in health care law's protection for children
Obama administration scrambles to fix gap in health care law's protection for children
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Participants applaud in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, where President Barack Obama, flanked by Macelas Owens of Seattle, left, and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, signs the health care bill. Behind the president, from left are, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., Vice President Joe Biden, Vicki Kennedy, widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., Ryan Smith of Turlock, Calif., Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer , On Wednesday March 24, 2010, 5:24 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.
However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year.
Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems.
Obama's public statements have conveyed the impression that the new protections for kids were more sweeping and straightforward.
"This is a patient's bill of rights on steroids," the president said Friday at George Mason University in Virginia. "Starting this year, thousands of uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions will be able to purchase health insurance, some for the very first time. Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions."
And Saturday, addressing House Democrats as they approached a make-or-break vote on the bill, Obama said, "This year ... parents who are worried about getting coverage for their children with pre-existing conditions now are assured that insurance companies have to give them coverage -- this year."
Late Tuesday, the administration said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would try to resolve the situation by issuing new regulations. The Obama administration interprets the law to mean that kids can't be denied coverage, as the president has said repeatedly.
"To ensure that there is no ambiguity on this point, the secretary of HHS is preparing to issue regulations next month making it clear that the term 'pre-existing exclusion' applies to both a child's access to a plan and his or her benefits once he or she is in the plan for all plans newly sold in this country six months from today," HHS spokesman Nick Papas said.
The coverage problem could mainly affect parents who purchase their own coverage for the family, as many self-employed people have to do. Families covered through employer plans typically do not have to worry about being denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
Parents whose kids are turned down by an insurer would still have a fallback under the law, even without Sebelius' fix. They could seek coverage through state high-risk insurance pools slated for a major infusion of federal funds.
The high-risk pools are intended to serve as a backstop until 2014, when insurers no longer would be able to deny coverage to those in frail health. That same year, new insurance markets would open for business, and the government would begin to provide tax credits to help millions of Americans pay premiums.
An insurance industry group says the language in the law that pertains to consumer protections for kids is difficult to parse.
"We're taking a closer look at it to see what exactly the requirement will be," said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the main industry lobby.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gap-in-health-care-laws-apf-4272209396.html?x=0&.v=1
Proof that Dems don't know what the hell they're doing.
Yiz
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Yizuman
Your liberal buddy at the time before this healthcare bill was passed dared Obama to fine him for going w/o health insurance and also dared Obama to send him to jail........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjx1ROUz-jc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOVUyA5jaME
Yiz
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BurnTheShips
Incompetents. They were in such a hurry to ram something through they couldn't even draft it right.
It also includes a tax on indoor tanning. That's racist!
And the bill is so awesome, the Democrat political elites have exempted themselves from its provisions.
The ads almost write themselves. Get ready for November.
I was going to switch my party affiliations today on my voter registration, unfortunately, I spent most of the day in the hospital with my sick pregnant wife. Incidentally, I went to three Drs offices today, and a hospital. All four had TVs in the waiting rooms. All four had the same station. It wasn't MSNBC.
BTS
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BurnTheShips
Obama loves him some unconstitutional mandates to buy insurance these days.
Here is Obama in 2008 ripping Hillary for suggesting such a thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnDxqboVxMY
Filthy. Liar.
Oh, I am sorry, did I offend you? "Master Politician"
As I said, the campaign ads write themselves.
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Yizuman
Ohhhhhh, here ya go Omamalovers. He lied about the Mandate Health Insurance, then turned around and did it anyway.
Then you see what the punishment will be if you decide to go without the forced mandate of health insurance.
Now here's the CHANGE you can believe in!
Yiz
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BurnTheShips
The most transparent Administration evah! refuses to allow the press or photographers in to witness the signing of the executive order that is supposed to ban federal funding for abortion.
White House spokesman Gibbsie gets called on it. Hilarity ensues:
“The president is signing an executive order on abortion that is a pretty big national issue,” a reporter asked. “Why would that be closed press, no pictures?”
“We’ll put out a picture from Pete [Souza],” Gibbs said.
“But what about a picture from the actual national media, not from — ” the reporter started to follow up.
“On, the picture from Pete will be for the actual event,” Gibbs answered.
“Right, but what about allowing us in, for openness and transparency?”
“We’ll have a nice picture from Pete that will demonstrate that type of transparency.”
“Not the same, Robert,” the reporter said. “Never has been.”
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skeeter1
I have to go to the pediatrictian's office tomorrow afternoon. I am going to ask for my kid's free healthcare since the bill was passed. Stay tuned.
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Yizuman
Here's a transcript of what BTS had posted...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/31/dem.debate.transcript/
Yiz
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Yizuman
*crickets*
Wow, the libs are awfully quiet tonight.
Maybe they're too busy peeling their jaws off the floor.
Yiz
