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barelynangel -> RE: Kennedy Bill (6/6/2009 4:36:51 AM)
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Insurers would be supposed to offer a basic level of care and would be required to cover all comers, without turning people away because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons. Insurance companies' profits would be limited, and private companies would have to compete with a new public "affordable access" plan that would for the first time offer government-sponsored health care to Americans not eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or other programs.
I am curious to see how this pans out with the pre-existing condition concept. SOOO many people don't have health insurance not because they can't afford it (hell they can't afford NOT to have it) because of pre-existing conditions that insurance companies screw people over or make them pay such a high rate they don't get it and wait and see.
I am curious as to what they will deem can't afford it. Will it be your income or the bills you already have to pay that are considered without bias.
This i thought was funny ---"Private insurers fear such a construct would drive them out of business"
Umm isn't that sorta the PLAN, that they would eventually be available as pretty much extra insurance instead of mainstream insurance? To me, they did this to themselves and maybe if they start seeing what the american people are SAYING --- and start making changes of their own (working with hospitals and doctors to help lower the costs instead of jacking it up all the time this could turn out different for them. But yeah, i presume nationalized health care eventually means there will no longer be a need for private health insurance unless you want it.
angel
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