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Showing Original Post only (View all)GA Rep. Price: Opening Health Insurance To People With Pre-Existing Conditions Is A ‘Terrible Idea’ [View all]
Source: ThinkProgress
One of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act prevents insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. But Republicans seek to repeal the law in its entirety and have gone to great lengths to oppose the new consumer protection. Just ask Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a medical doctor, who has introduced a replacement bill which would not require insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions. When asked why he omitted that provision, Price was blunt in his assessment:
They are even divided over whether some of the popular pieces of Obamas health law are a good idea. For example, most Republicans support the health laws requirement that insurance companies accept all applicants but the replacement plan put forward by the most prominent Republican ignores that idea.
Its a terrible idea, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the sponsor of the plan, told POLITICO. He said Democrats only enacted the provision in order to require exactly what kinds of insurance Americans must have. He would rather expand coverage voluntarily.
Price may think opening coverage to Americans who need it most is a terrible idea, but for many of those Americans, it is a matter of life or death. As many as 122 million Americans have an illness which could result in an insurer denying them coverage; they paid as much as $4,844 more a year for health care than those without pre-existing conditions. And a study from 2009 found that 45,000 Americans a year died because they dont have access to care.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/01/474234/price-pre-ex/
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GA Rep. Price: Opening Health Insurance To People With Pre-Existing Conditions Is A ‘Terrible Idea’ [View all]
Galraedia
May 2012
OP
It's an attempt to commit murder upon the helpless when anyone votes for people like this.
Judi Lynn
May 2012
#7
Big insurance will spend their mandated trillions to defeat all of the good reforms in the bill
grahamhgreen
May 2012
#16
Opening up food banks and giving food stamps to hungry people a terrible idea.
Liberal Veteran
May 2012
#22
My understanding is that the vast majority of people in this district are so in line
cbayer
May 2012
#28
Let me guess...he's been fortunate enough to have no one in his immediate family
tanyev
May 2012
#30