Mon 25 Jan, 2010
Even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi affirmed her commitment to pass far-reaching health care legislation this year, members of Congress and health policy experts began Thursday to deal with the reality that a smaller bill would have a better chance.
Passage of a comprehensive bill looked impossible after the Democrats’ loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts. As an alternative, lawmakers in both parties said, some pieces of the bills already passed by the House and the Senate could be pulled out and packaged together in a measure that would command broad support.
The consensus measure would be less ambitious than the bills approved last year. It would extend insurance coverage to perhaps 12 million to 15 million people — and provide political cover to Democrats, who said they could not simply drop the issue after spending so much time and effort on it.
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Lawmakers, Congressional aides and health policy experts said the package might plausibly include these elements:
¶Insurers could not deny coverage to children under the age of 19 on account of pre-existing medical conditions.
This bill is the health insurance companies’ wet dream. It will force us to buy health insurance from them, use our tax dollars to pay for the coverage, and allow them to deny people 20-years-old and older with pre-existing conditions while not allowing the government to buy cheaper drugs from Canada.
I wish I had some extra money so I could invest it in Aetna and become Warren Buffett rich.
Tags: 19 year olds are considered children now, Deny Coverage, Health care, I hate this fucking country
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