Oops… ObamaCare Has Major Gaps Protecting Children, Dems Scrambling to Revise
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 24, 2010
Just one of many “gaps” suddenly discovered in the despicable government-run health care bill… funny what happens when people are actually given proper time to read this monstrosity. More to come, I’d wager.
From Associated Press: Gap in health care law’s protection for children:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.
However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year.
Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That’s the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems.
Obama’s public statements have conveyed the impression that the new protections for kids were more sweeping and straightforward.
From Doug Powers, via Michelle Malkin’s blog… Health Taxes — For a Slimmer, Trimmer Wallet:
Congress and the Obama administration seem to have failed to include small details in the health care bill — such as forgetting to make sure it could keep evil insurance companies from denying coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.
Congress and the president were so distracted by the real purpose of the bill that they forgot to include the stated purpose of the bill in the actual bill (next to the promise of all that money and power, their distractions were understandable — it was like standing Bill Clinton next to a bikini-clad Jessica Simpson and later asking him if he remembers what color her shoes were).
Related:
Heritage Foundation: Morning Bell: Congress vs. The American People
The Powers That Be: Health Bill Written to Stop Evil Insurance Companies From Denying Kids With Preexisting Conditions Doesn’t Exactly Do That
Radio Vice Online: Media buries the real math of health care reform
Voting Female: Obama is a LIAR: children with pre-existing conditions and ObamaCare’s ‘Caucasians Only’ Tax and FOX’s Leftist, Shepard Smith, attacks Michael Steele and Conservatives and Legislate by death threats; Democrat Party of Broken Kneecaps
Wall Street Journal: Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Limbaugh & the New 85-15 Mandate: How ObamaCare Deliberately Kills the Health Insurance Industry… Insurance Agents, Polish up Those Résumés and Backlash Thunder Rising: America Won’t Tolerate Democrat Politicians Who Betrayed Their Constituents by Voting for ObamaCare (video) and Pro-Life Judas: Bart Stupak’s Betrayal for a Few Pieces of Silver to Vote “Yes” on Abortion and ObamaCare… What Price Trust & Honor, Bart? (video)
The Heritage Foundation: Stupak Admits He Allowed Obama to Fund Abortions With Taxpayer Money
HillBuzz: Your mission is to drive every Leftist from power, to defund the DNC, and to repeal what was done yesterday.
The Powers That Be, D-Day for the Constitution: Dems Say They Have the Votes; Update — Stupak a Sucker
Ed Driscoll, Pajamas Media: Happy Dependence Day!
Patterico’s Pontifications: Signed, Sealed, and Flubbed and Obama Signs Health Care Bill and “Have You Read the Bill? . . . Hell No You Haven’t!” and Will Illegals Have to Buy That Mandatory Health Insurance? Will They Be Fined If When They Don’t?
Legal Insurrection: The Morning After the Morning After and Pep Talk
Gateway Pundit: NY Times Praises Marxist Redistribution of Wealth in Obamacare and Obama Opens Mouth at Health Care Bill Signing – Lies and Indiana Dem Senatorial Candidate Down 18 Points After Voting For Obamacare: and All Shook Up… Bart Stupak Partied Down With Fellow Dem Reps After Pro-Abortion Obamacare Vote and HOUSE DEMS RAM THROUGH OBAMACARE 219-212 …Dems Applaud Stupak!
Flopping Aces: Can ObamaCare Be Stopped….And If Not, What Is Our Future? and ObamaCare Passes But All Is Not Lost and Gear Up for Repeal!
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Flashback: Obama’s Promise on Using Executive Power to Change Laws
No Sheeples Here: Stupak Covered In Shame
The Conservative Pup: Did You Hear That?
Charging Elephant: RNC Chairman has Declared War on Nancy Pelosi
Paul A. Rahe, Big Government: Hope and Change: Had Enough?
Diary of a Mad Conservative: How a bill becomes law – nothing like Schoolhouse Rock
Michelle Malkin: The gloater-in-chief: “Another stone laid in the foundation of the American dream;” Pelosi jokes: “No money exchanged hands (laughter);” Slaughter: “There is nothing now that we can’t tackle” and Attorneys general launch lawsuit backlash against Demcare
Doug Bandow, American Spectator: Now We Can Blame Government for the Health Care Mess
Another Black Conservative: ObamaCare aftermath: Let the lawsuits begin
Ztower: Wanted: Honest, hardworking citizen to fill open seat in the House of Reprehensibles.
Quin Hillyer, American Spectator: Stupak’s Betrayal Merits Fierce Revenge
Nice Deb: There Will Be Lots More Of This To Come… and CA Rep Introducing New Legislation to add “Robust Public Option” and Obama To Take Victory Lap To Iowa and Heritage Foundation President Calls Actions Taken By Dems Leading To Obamacare Cram-down, “Intolerable Acts”
The Daley Gator: ObamaCare, the Day After link-a-round
GayPatriot: Obamacare passed, now, AP says, Obama Must Sell it, Huh? and “Grinding Liberty” or “Making Sausage” and How many Democrats lost their jobs last night?
Temple of Mut: Today I MOURN for our Republic; tomorrow, I FIGHT for it and BENEDICT BART and 10 of the 12 voted YES: Contact Information and No, ANN ALTHOUSE, We Will NOT “Get Used” to OBAMACARE
Motor City Times: Americas Worst Governor, Jennifer Granholm, Applauds The Government Takeover Of Health Care and Silver Lining In The ObamaCare Mess
Ace of Spades HQ: Stupak Did Not Cave, Because In Order To Cave You Have To Have Principles In The First Place
FOX News: Media Cast First Vote for Health Care
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