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The Spectacle Blog
Throughout the health care debate, President Obama has insisted that Americans who liked their health insurance could keep it.
“If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period,” he declared in a speech to the American Medical Association last June. “No one will take it away, no matter what.”
While a number of provisions in the existing House and Senate health care bills would undermine that pledge, the proposal Obama unveiled today takes a sledgehammer to it.
The Senate bill has a measure to protect so-called “grandfathered plans,” which would allow policy holders to maintain coverage in plans that may not abide by all of the requirements imposed on new individual plans offered on the government-run exchanges.
But Obama’s new proposal changes all of that. Here’s how the White House explains the new provisions:
The Senate bill includes a “grandfather” policy that allows people who like their current coverage, to keep it. The President’s Proposal adds certain important consumer protections to these “grandfathered” plans. Within months of legislation being enacted, it requires plans to cover adult dependents up to age 26, prohibits rescissions, mandates that plans have a stronger appeals process, and requires State insurance authorities to conduct annual rate review, backed up by the oversight of the HHS Secretary. When the exchanges begin in 2014, the President’s Proposal adds new protections that prohibit all annual and lifetime limits, ban pre-existing condition exclusions, and prohibit discrimination in favor of highly compensated individuals. Beginning in 2018, the President’s Proposal requires “grandfathered” plans to cover proven preventive services with no cost sharing.
All of the new requirements proposed by Obama would increase premiums, and by definition, alter the composition of those insurance plans. The White House would argue that it is changing the policies for the better. But the entire point of having “grandfathered plans” was to protect a class of policies from changes imposed by the new legislation. Put another way, the provision to allow people to keep their “grandfathered plans” is rendered meaningless when the federal government is dictating what is in them.
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Grzmlyk| 2.22.10 @ 12:53PM
I have never in my life known of someone, in or out of politics, who lies with such insouciant aplomb as Obama. And I've worked with at least three sociopaths.
Obama is UNHINGED. He is a WHACK JOB. He literally thinks that if he says it, it is so. He is UNABLE to DISCERN REALITY.
I think that's why we never hear from anyone who worked with him or attended school with him or was one of his students. I think they've all been bought off or threatened, because the thugs who are pulling the strings know anyone who's dealt with Obama knows he is literally delusional.
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With a mainstream media that had ANY integrity, this clown would have been run out of town a long time ago. As it is, however, he is so over the top radical/progressive that he will eventually succeed in running himself and the rest of his party out of town. We just need to minimize the damage before that day comes.
David Thomas| 2.22.10 @ 1:55PM
"Beginning in 2018, the President’s Proposal requires “grandfathered” plans to cover proven preventive services with no cost sharing." There should always be a co-pay or massive fraud will occur. Any co-pay should not be insurable by an ancillary policy.
Flame| 2.23.10 @ 12:32PM
So, I have busted my a$$ for over thirty years to ensure that I have medical coverage which allows me to not have co-pays and now Obamao wants to make me pay them. IOW he is adding another tax to my limited income because I worked hard.
Bill| 2.22.10 @ 1:55PM
It is simple people, we all have religious objections to using their health care insurance, and as such, are not required to pay for it.
I know I do, and I won't.
Mike| 2.22.10 @ 2:08PM
Put simply, Obama's government intends to take over our lives. I was planning to take my travel trailer up to the 11 acres of land I own in North Florida and relax for a few years....I've earned it. Now my accountant tells me that my modest health insurance plan probably won't meet Obama's insurance mandate requirements. Meaning that my premium rate would rise enough to destroy my dream. Of course once my bank account is emptied the government will increase my subsidies......what a pile of BS. We work hard and save our whole lives so that we can eventually have some version of the American dream. And then the government steps in and destroys it with taxes and mandates. I don't mind losing when its my own fault, I do take offense when I'm punished for someone elses mistakes.
Dan Han| 2.22.10 @ 2:36PM
BO is a committed liar with a brain doner for VP. He can lie, cheat, mislead with aplomb. Not only will we not be able to keep our health insurance, insurance companies will go broke under his plan in just a few years. Now, where will all those people find jobs?
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As far as the pledge “If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period,” keep in mind the fact that premium subsidies will only be available to people who buy insurance through the exchanges. I have an individual Blue Cross health plan so I would need to change plans to benefit from the premium subsidy. On the other hand, health care reform is preventing me from changing to another Blue Cross plan. I just received my annual 15% premium increase from Blue Cross which is a non-profit company in Florida and I wanted to change to a higher deductible to reduce the premium. I was informed by Blue Cross that they don't know if I would still be grandfathered in which case the reform changes (lower co-pays, etc.) would significantly increase the premium for non-grandfathered policies. They are still waiting for guidance on the definition of grandfathered from HEW.
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