Posted on 03/28/2010 9:34:30 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON — Just days after President Obama signed the new health care law, insurance companies are already arguing that, at least for now, they do not have to provide one of the benefits that the president calls a centerpiece of the law: coverage for certain children with pre-existing conditions.
Mr. Obama, speaking at a health care rally in northern Virginia on March 19, said, “Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The list, ping
They deliberately left it out because it’s too expensive.
From the article (this absolutely warms the cockles of my heart):
Insurers agree that if they provide insurance for a child, they must cover pre-existing conditions. But, they say, the law does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not guarantee the “availability of coverage” for all until 2014.Poor ole' pig face. First corporations take charges against earnings because they'll have to pay more for health insurance and now insurance companies are doing what they have to do to stay afloat. Show trials are coming. Should be a hoot.William G. Schiffbauer, a lawyer whose clients include employers and insurance companies, said: “The fine print differs from the larger political message. If a company sells insurance, it will have to cover pre-existing conditions for children covered by the policy. But it does not have to sell to somebody with a pre-existing condition. And the insurer could increase premiums to cover the additional cost.”
Congressional Democrats were furious when they learned that some insurers disagreed with their interpretation of the law. [Gotta love it!]
“The concept that insurance companies would even seek to deny children coverage exemplifies why we fought for this reform,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of the Senate commerce committee, said: “The ink has not yet dried on the health care reform bill, and already some deplorable health insurance companies are trying to duck away from covering children with pre-existing conditions. This is outrageous.”
This is what you get for not reading what you voted on...
(That's assuming SCOTUS or Congress doesn't kill the whole ball of wax first!)
Once again the law of unintended consequences smacks the dems across the face.
This is what happens when a government tries to legislate behavior. The people often don’t play along. I have a feeling that this will continue.
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