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bill would allow insurers to base themselves in whichever state has the weakest regulatory standards http://bit.ly/2cNASz 11/4/2009 |
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RT @slackadjuster@whitk227: @tellymcgGOP #hcr plan: Model insurance companies after credit card companies - http://bit.ly/2ixa6d #p2 #tcot 11/4/2009 |
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RT @whitk227: RT @tellymcg: GOP healthcare plan: Model insurance companies after credit card companies - http://bit.ly/2ixa6d #p2 #hcr #tcot 11/4/2009 |
GOP Takes Courageous Preexisting Conditions Stance
MyDD —
From the Associated Press's write up of the political document the Republicans are dressing up as a policy statement on healthcare: The bill is 230 pages long, compared with Democrats' 1,990-page measure. Unlike the Democrats' legislation it has no requirement for people to buy insurance and no prohibitions against insurance companies denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions. [emphasis added] To get an idea of just how courageous this stance is by the Republicans, look at how massively ...
Bipartisanship Lives! Eshoo Amendment Embraced by GOP in “Alternative” Health Bill
Firedoglake —
... ” bill to the Democrats’ health care reform legislation. It is frankly a meaningless, very long press release, filled with some ...
FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/3/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page —
... in both Nebraska and North Carolina." What's particularly striking is that " Nebraska is one of the most conservative states in the country and is represented by the most conservative Democratic senator, Ben Nelson" - who does not support the public option. Apparently, Ben Nelson isn't listening very well to the voters of his state (or he simply doesn't care?).
6. Jon Walker comments on the Republican "alternative" health care bill, which he calls "a meaningless, very long press release, filled with some really bad ideas." I don't know ...
Health care reform Republican style
Newshoggers.com —
... So, the Republicans have a health care reform plan - sorta. Like the Democratic plans it really doesn't reform anything but it does allow the insurance companies to act even more outrageously. Ezra Klein explains: ...
Digest for November 3rd through November 4th
The Republic of T. —
... What Do You Mean "We" White Man?<br><br>by digby<br><br>This is pretty –
The Tortured Logic Continues –
RJ Eskow: Base to Obama: Come In, Please –
The Swine Flu Screw-up –
Applying a single standard –
The Republicans Have A Healthcare Reform Bill! Sort of. –
Republicans want to make the insurance industry more like the credit card industry – ...
What Do They Want?
The Republic of T. —
... cannot get into them for as long as a year after they apply.
When my brother developed kidney disease and his health insurance refused to pay to treat it, I looked into Texas’ high-risk pool and discovered it would be far out of his reach, with premiums that typically run twice as expensive as regular insurance policies. California’s high-risk pool has been a disaster, covering only 2% of the medically uninsurable. ...
Low Standards
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones —
... That said, if we're going to set the bar low, let's set it really low. While Democrats can't seem to pass health care reform or financial reform or climate change legislation, they can at least stop Republicans from implementing conservatives' very worst ideas. We may not have any meaningful progressive reform, but at least we haven't made the health insurance industry more like the credit card industry, like the GOP wants. Just yesterday, the Senate killed two particularly bad ideas: Lindsey Graham's proposal to prevent 9/11 suspects from ...
Mocking the GOP Health Care Plan
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones —
... . The CBO found that the GOP plan would save money because it doesn't actually extend insurance coverage to any of the 17 percent of legal, non-elderly Americans who the CBO thinks will be without health insurance in 2010. In fact, most of the Republican plan centers around reforms that would make the health insurance industry work more like the credit card industry by allowing insurers to base themselves in the state with the weakest regulations and then sell their health plans nationwide (as credit card companies already do from South Dakota). ...
