"Romney Floats One-Time Amnesty For Preexisting Conditions" by Sahil Kapur at Talking Points Memo

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Romney Floats One-Time Amnesty For Preexisting Conditions

by Sahil Kapur at Talking Points Memo

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/mitt-romney-preexisting-conditions-amnesty-window.php

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Call it a one-time amnesty for uninsured Americans suffering from illnesses, after which the GOP candidate says he’ll strengthen protections for sick people who maintain continuous coverage.

The Republican nominee floated the idea in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch editorial board published Thursday, saying the policy would guarantee ill Americans the “choice” to buy insurance during a limited time period.

What he didn’t specify: the length of the open-enrollment period. Nor did he say what would happen to sick people who cannot afford the prices set by insurers or those who fall sick — or are born — after the time window lapses.

“If the amnesty ever ends, the problem will just re-emerge,” said Austin Frakt, a health economist at the Boston University School of Public Health. “In part, that will happen because insurance may remain unaffordable without the subsidies that the ACA offers. An individual who can’t afford premiums will cease to have continuous coverage. What’s that person to do after this amnesty ends?”

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1. I predict Romney will support Obamacare completely by election day.

[ProSense]

2. Romney: ‘We Don’t Have People Who Die Because They Don’t Have Insurance’

Romney: ‘We Don’t Have People Who Die Because They Don’t Have Insurance’ http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021512874

People need to stop trying to make sense of this despicable asshole and his multiple positions.

[modrepub]

3. 20k per year

That's what it cost to insure my family, half of which I pay. I don't know too many people that would afford that without a decent paying job. Anyone else want to share their insurance costs?

[progressivebydesign]

4. that is the stupidest fucking idea, EVER. So if you happen to get sick later on, your'e fucked??

Fuck you romney.. etch a sketch.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Willard has more positions than a prostitute

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6. It is marketing. You charge people different prices for things depending in

which market they are in. Unless you are following politics intimately every day, you would hear something like this and think Romney cares, but you have to look hard to find the editorials explain why the idea is wrong so you often don't get that message. So people end up trusting Romeny on health care just a tiny bit more. And then the next day he come out with another phoney statement and people trust him a little bit more. I kinda jiggles/adjusts their vote. After a constant barrage of people thinking "I can trust him, he'll take care of us, perhaps not, I can trust him a bit more, Gee that is a new idea ... I can trust him".... all that thinking about him and his novel ideas, all that pro Romney exercising changes some votes to republican.

Obama needs to promote Obamacare more often.

[LiberalElite]

7. Limited Time Only! Void Where Prohibited by Law! Don't be the Last on Your Block!

I bet Open Enrollment will expire on November 7, 2012.