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.
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The redesign site for the RNC or whatever it was was taken down election night. The people in that group included McCain, Cantor, Kyl and Barbour, IIRC. I remember being surprised about Cantor and Barbour.
They have to be Progressives and statists.
NO! The whole thing has to be GONE! These RINO’s will also have to pay a price in two years!
Repeal or Secession!
M’er F’ers
This alone proves he doesn't understand the problem. If an insurer cannot select the customers and terms they are willing to insure, it is not insurance.
When they pull the boxcar up to the siding to be loaded for a trip to the camps.
Have you ever heard the term “judas goat”?
The day that Cantor attended the Obama do-nothing “summit” I heard comments from him that overloaded the BS detector. Watch this guy! He’s preoccupied with ascending to Republican leadership positions, and I guarantee you that a year or two from now we will be referring to him in the same loving way we refer to Lindsay Grahmnasty or Juan McCain today. Cantor will be the new champion in the game of reaching across the aisle.
Can you explain how covering pre-existing conditions is good and a money saving idea? I don’t see it.
Most carriers had already allowed children to stay on their parents plan to age 23 already..and some to age 25.
I have enrolled some children back onto their parents plan but they were hardship cases only. Kids in between jobs or a job with no insurance who had health conditions no carrier would accept.
Healthy kids are not going back onto their parants plan because ti is cheaper to buy an individual plan because of their age.
Why not totally repeal ObamaCare and simply reauthorize certain portions, such as the 26 year old claiming and preexisting conditions, in a new bill? This new bill could also include interstate purchasing of health insurance.
Republicans want to sign onto the politically popular parts of Obamacare. Like no pre-existing conditions and allowing parents to keep kids on their health insurance until they turn 26.
I’m no Cantor fan. I’m in his district and he disappoints on a regular basis.
But I’m not sure he should be faulted for this. Health care reform has to happen and there are ~some~ elements of Obamacare that are reasonable. The ones listed may be debatable.
It’s actually a good strategy to simultaneously work to reform and repeal Obamacare.
I can see the pre-existing conditions clause.
In a world where health insurance companies have to spend $600,000 per person with AIDS who essentially (these days) have a disease that they’ve gone and sought out, there’s no reason that a cancer patient who happens to lose a job should be condemned to die.
Coverage till 26?
Heck no.
Let’s say you have an illness for which you need to buy insurance. Under current law, the insurance company doesn’t have to pay for any illness you had prior to acquiring the policy. Now they would have to ensure that when you signed up for the policy. That’s what the ban on excluding people with pre-existing conditions from coverage means.
Someone’s gain is someone else’s loss. If you are covering pre-existing conditions, you are rasining the cost of premiums to members to esnure adequate resources to pay for any eventual outlays associated with ongoing care that will now be covered by insurance.
Eric Cantor, you overbite loser!
We said defund and repeal! Period.
Cantor is a POS. Hussein and the Saudis own SCOTUS and US TV including Al Waleed Fox News/ABC News and CNN.
It takes work to bury them, my FRiend. From what I have seen, we are not up to the job. We should have taken to the streets enmass after obamacare was passed. Instead, we were pacified until waiting to the elections. Now it is ...... In the end the entire package of obamacare will come into effect. In totality.
To be effective, it [the protest] have to be massive and sustained. Picemeal actions will be squased.
They know that these are the Obama Care programs that have already hiked private insurance rates.. so that cost has been born by us during the Democrat administration so they feel safe leaving it.. Someone has to pay for all these people..so rates went up.. and of course we pay .
There are only 2 kinds of people..them and us
You could make a case for parental coverage of kids with a disability or impairment, the parents want to keep them on their own plan as long they’re alive. Healthy kids who are adults can and should buy their own policy.
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