Senate GOP health bill quietly brings back preexisting conditions

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by Sarah Kliff at Vox

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/7/11/15949274/senate-health-bill-preexisting-conditions

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The Senate health care bill could once again allow insurance companies to offer some individuals plans that cover few benefits — and, in certain policies, exclude sick people entirely.

These changes result from a little-noticed provision that lets self-employed Americans opt out of the individual market and buy into the health plans that large employers provide, which have more lax regulatory standards.

Health policy experts at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Georgetown University have recently analyzed this provision, and concluded that these “small-business health plans” could siphon off healthy consumers.

These plans could, according to one analysis, “condition membership on the health status of small businesses” — including cases where the small business is a self-employed individual.


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[CurtEastPoint]

1. SOB's.

[Chasstev365]

2. OK Collins, Heller, and others:

Do you have any courage?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Koch bros wont be happy until there are dead poor people, dead old people and dead

black people in the gutters they avoid driving in their Bentley's.

I hope I am around long enough to see the blow-back.

[applegrove]

4. They vote democrat if they vote. if they are old and vote republican in red states there are extras

of them in rural districts.