Side Effects of Obamacare.
Posted on 04/02/2010 4:52:50 PM PDT by myknowledge
Major flaws in the gargantuan Obamacare bill started to emerge almost immediately after it was signed into law. One of the most embarrassing: failure to ensure immediate coverage for kids with pre-existing conditions—something Obamacare supporters had constantly promised was part of the bill.
Looking to provide cover for those who wrote the bill, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius fired off a warning letter to insurers. “Health insurance is designed to prevent any child from being denied coverage because he or she has a pre-existing condition,” she scolded. As though it was their mistake!
The pols got in the act too. According to the Associated Press, “House leaders later issued a statement saying their intent in writing the legislation was to provide full protection.” Well all right, then!
Luckily, in this case, the insurance industry is declining to take advantage of politicians’ sloppiness. The AP reports that Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, wrote back to Sebelius, saying the industry will “fully comply” with the HHS regulations on this matter, once they are written.
But is this anyway to run a country? To have lawmakers and regulators coerce the private sector into doing what they simply declare to be their “intent,” rather than what is actually written in the law? Legislation is supposed to be scrubbed of shortcomings such as this before it’s brought to the floor for a vote.
Expect more episodes like this in the months to come. Washington loves flexing new-found muscle—in this case, the heavy hand of lawmakers and regulators browbeating others for failure to do what they want ‘em to do, but failed to put into law.
Episodes like this reveal the merits of taking a considered, incremental approach to health care reform. To learn more about the right way to successful health care reform, click here.
Side Effects of Obamacare.
The United States Federal Government has become the most dangerous laughing-stock in the history of the world.
The snake should be dead as a door nail.
Sadly, they haven’t meant much for decades. Despite so called “laws” millions of preborn babies have been murdered.
A lot of families with disabled children or chronically ill family members took advantage of these two programs. Now they will get the "opportunity" to "contribute" more revenue to the government.
So they ‘deem’ it to have been in there. Whats new?
The corporate-governmental complex owns many congressmen and senators, corporations have a pernicious influence through their lobbying and in Capitol Hill, almost everyone has sold their souls.
Put a blue death pill on there and you’ve got the final logo.
I guess that not only do they not read what they write but they don’t know how to write.
FUBAR!!!!!!!!
The problem was they had to pass it so they could know what was in it. That’s what nancy said and it appears she was right.
None of them bothered to read the damned thing.
Someone needs to fire off a letter to this dumb Obamabimbo asking where the hell all the money is going that the government is stealing from smokers for their so-called S-Chip program.
I’ve got a “who is john galt” sticker on my car. I can’t count the number of people who’ve I suggested to read Atlas Shrugged this past year or so. Everyone’s read it. Americans get it.
Who cares who John Galt is - WHERE is he?
Is that the stupidest statement ever, or what? But it gives me an idea. If it was OK to just ignore the contents before the vote, why we all just agree to ignore them now?
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