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Cantor: Republicans will keep some provisions of healthcare law intact (Here we go!!)
The Hill ^

Posted on 11/30/2010 9:56:46 AM PST by roses of sharon

House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law.

Cantor said there are certain elements of current law that will be included in the GOP plan, which he said will move simultaneously with a repeal measure through the House.

Provisions that Republicans will seek to retain include the barring of insurance companies from refusing coverage to patients with a pre-existing condition and allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.

Speaking to more than 100 students at a town hall event at American University in Washington. D.C., Cantor responded to a question from a young woman who suffered from a chronic health condition by telling her, "We want to keep the pre-existing condition clause."

Cantor also told the woman that under the GOP plan, she should be able stay either "on a parent's health insurance" or be offered "another, equally affordable solution.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: 112th; 112thgop; alteredtitle; crapsandwiches; ericcantor; gop; gopbetrayal; knewthiswouldhappen; obamacare; ohcrap; repealobamacare; rinobetrayal; rinos
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To: Lou L

Lou:

You said in very concise words what I’m trying to say in my long winded post 99.

DOH!


101 posted on 11/30/2010 10:56:37 AM PST by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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To: NRG1973
If this report is true then it mean the HCR bill is a fait accompli. Republicans can pack it in and go home now...they;ve failed again.

We were finished the moment it passed...(and I was flamed for saying so).

Conservative politics is dead. Just imagine trying to campaign to take away children's healthcare.
102 posted on 11/30/2010 10:56:54 AM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Vigilanteman
Mandates, in general, frost me. For instance, our company gives drug tests as a condition to work and keep your job here. Yet, we are required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide full substance abuse coverage. Why? I can think of no other reason than that the rehab lobby pushed it hard enough. Can you?

I understand where you are coming from. The reason why you have to have the mandate even if you don't use it is ue to the fact it's easier and more cost effective to have it on your plan due to administrative reasons. It would be a nightmare for insurance carriers to have a ala carte plan-hard to keep track of who has what. Very similar to why car companies went to package deals where if you want AC you have to get power seats to. It's cheaper to make cars this way versus each one totally different.

What would be wrong with letting people opt out of mandates for a corresponding reduction in premiums?

Take for instance mandatory maternity clause. Every group plan has it. It's built into the rates that only so many people will use maternity. If the carriers removed maternity off your plan it would not lower the rates. Again it's easier(less expensive) administratively to have all plan benefits the same.

103 posted on 11/30/2010 10:58:36 AM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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To: goldstategop

I would be fine with the OPTION to keep or add your kids to a policy up to 26 but it should not be mandatory. In this economic mess that BO has made infinitely worse I and a lot of people I know have adult children, usually single and are laid off or can’t find a steady job that either pays enough buy individual insurance or doesn’t offer any plan. Those in that type of situation will be on the dole anyway if they have to go in for any care so at least I could help them out for a period of time until they can get on their feet again.


104 posted on 11/30/2010 11:00:02 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Non-Sequitur
House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law.

So when all those candidate ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare then they were just lying to us?

Yes.

105 posted on 11/30/2010 11:00:36 AM PST by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: roses of sharon

Take away insurance from the sick! And from the children!

The GOP has now fallen in the trap that either they incur the wrath of their base or get hammered by the Democrats for being mean to the sick and to the children.

Its a Hobson’s Choice.


106 posted on 11/30/2010 11:01:50 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Spok

It’s important that the GOP put this into writing in the form of a 6000-page “reform” package to the 3,000-page health care bill, so that the resulting 9000-page result can be real “reform.” And, to guarantee that the reform is taken seriously, the creation of oh, about 15 to 20 more Federal agencies are needed to oversee the implementation of the reform.

Kind of like tax reform, that adds about 1000 pages to the Internal Revenue Code every time it’s reformed.


107 posted on 11/30/2010 11:02:50 AM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: roses of sharon

About ten years ago. I almost got banned for suggesting it. Times change...


108 posted on 11/30/2010 11:03:19 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: roses of sharon

EXACTLY


109 posted on 11/30/2010 11:04:06 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: The Comedian
The Government Party, and everyone else. I say it is time to start over again.

I second that motion. One more in favor, and it's carried...

Aye!

Potomac at dawn?

110 posted on 11/30/2010 11:04:41 AM PST by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: iceskater

THANK YOU! Taking notes.


111 posted on 11/30/2010 11:05:43 AM PST by libbylu
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To: Vigilanteman
Yet, we are required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide full substance abuse coverage. Why? I can think of no other reason than that the rehab lobby pushed it hard enough. Can you?

I never liked the substance abuse mandate either. Some mandates are good like forcing carriers to pay for at least 48 hours of a hospital stay after a pregnancy.

Oh and yes you are correct the lobbying groups that push this stuff are very very very powerful.

112 posted on 11/30/2010 11:06:45 AM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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To: Dead Corpse

I should have gotten banned for saying nothing will change in Washington next year.

Turns out I was more prescient than I thought.


113 posted on 11/30/2010 11:07:21 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: libbylu

I met him a couple of times. Very seriously conservative.


114 posted on 11/30/2010 11:08:04 AM PST by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: sickoflibs; MaggieCarta; DoughtyOne; Avoiding_Sulla; calcowgirl

I warned y’all. No change in Rep leadership??.....no change PERIOD!


115 posted on 11/30/2010 11:08:28 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: roses of sharon
These GOP idiots would do well to read my tagline and REFLECT.
116 posted on 11/30/2010 11:08:28 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Envisioning

I’m in.


117 posted on 11/30/2010 11:08:50 AM PST by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: roses of sharon
Conservative politics is dead. Just imagine trying to campaign to take away children's healthcare.

That's the thinking that got us to this point.

Campaign to restore liberty and lawful constitutional self-government.

118 posted on 11/30/2010 11:10:13 AM PST by EternalVigilance (The care of human life...is the first and only legitimate object of good government -- Jefferson)
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To: hoyt-clagwell

How do you prevent post-facto coverage if the pre-existing clause is in play, except by mandating everyone purchase?


119 posted on 11/30/2010 11:10:18 AM PST by MortMan (To Obama "Kill them all and let [God] sort them out" is an abortion slogan.)
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To: hoyt-clagwell
“As someone who has been in the health insurance business for 30+ years the pre-ex clause and allowing kids to stay on their parents plan are good measures.”

Then you do not know beans about insurance. Insurance is for future events—not pre-exising conditions. If you make insurance companies take people with pre-existing conditions, that is no longer insurance and lots of folks will just not get insurance until they have to get insurnace (i.e., they get sick and have a pre-exising condition).

120 posted on 11/30/2010 11:10:24 AM PST by HwyChile
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