Posted on 09/20/2010 6:43:09 PM PDT by blueyon
Health plans in at least four states have announced they're dropping children's coverage just days ahead of new rules created by the healthcare reform law, according to the liberal grassroots group Health Care for America Now (HCAN).
The new healthcare law forbids insurers from turning down children with pre-existing conditions starting Thursday, one of several reforms Democrats are eager to highlight this week as they try to build support for the law ahead of the mid-term elections. But news of insurers dropping their plans as a result of the new law has thrown a damper on that strategy and prompted fierce push-back from the administration's allies at HCAN.
The announcement could lead to higher costs for some parents who are buying separate coverage for themselves and their children at lower cost than the family coverage that's available to them.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
An oxymoron to be sure.
Remember the silliness over the S/CHIP program? It was simply an opportunity to take a swipe at 'heartless' Bush.
Now we have children's coverage being endangered/dropped as a direct result of Obama's touchy-feely agenda. He should be catching hell from all sides but the Astroturfers want to wage war on private businesses - again.
Another Raw Deal, do gooder jircle cerk. Liberals can screw up a piece of rope.
But, but, but, you can’t do that! We’re the government. Just because we didn’t read the whole bill before we passed it doesn’t mean you can do this. This isn’t our intention (like section 8 ghettos, welfare mares, and generational theft).
Just to clarify, insurers will still cover children as part of their parents’ contract. What they are dropping is their child only contracts. They are dropping that coverage because ObamaCare requires that they accept any child regardless of that child’s health status. The risk associated with that coverage is prohibitively high.
This is the farce of political correctness. Discrimination actually makes us freer.
Free people must have the right to discriminate. It creates opportunity, profit and innovation.
Equality means dragging everyone down to the same low level.
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We must remember that the Imperial Government Regime is working at a serious disadvantage as the privately run insurance companies are much smarter than them. Partly, I suspect, because virtually no one around nobama has any private industry experience.
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Their not conned too?
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/89886767.html?page=2&c=y
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “...They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system...”
Can you buy insurance for your car after you have already wrecked it? Can you buy fire insurance for your house after it burns down? Then why should health insurance companies accept liability for a preexisting condition? How could any insurance company survive with that kind of requirement?
Yes. And then comes the "blame the evil greedy insurance companies."
One can only hope this somehow causes GREAT pain and suffering for ALL those who voted for and those who wanted this socialist takeover.
Suffer, damn you, suffer!
Which is exactly the point.
If insurance companies can't survive if they're required to cover pre-existing conditions, that's the intention. Because, then, the "public option" becomes a necessary alternative.
Question that should be addressed: What proportion of "pre-existing conditions" occurred because the individual chose not to be insured at the time the conditions were inflicted?
We're asked to be sypathetic to their situation. But I'd wager that the majority were taking their chances...and got caught.
I am sorry-—if a health insurer refuses to cover sick children then they shouldn’t be health insurers. What is the point of having health insurers that won’t cover sick kids?
‘This was an anticipated and desired result. It will just throw those children on to a government plan which is taxpayer subsidized.’
...and, when adult insureds receive significant premium increases, due to companies forced to pay pre-existing conditions which they did not price for, the adults will switch to government plan too.
The gubmint requires one hold auto insurance to drive, but they don't require that all insurance companies make affordable insurance available to all drivers.
Who could of guessed this? :)
Seriously, these mandates are much like minimum wage. They don't actually force employers to hire and keep the people at those wages who end up on unemployment forever. Ironically the Bush-Pelosi federal minimum wage law (signed 2008) went up JUST as unemployment was rising under Obama-Pelosi 2008. True justice.
My goodness, this is all of Michael Moore's cockeyed socialist theories on show, as a huge failure.
Congress versus the free market system reminds me of the Coyote versus the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner always comes out on top, and free enterprise always finds a way around Congress. The similarities are uncanny!
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