GA Rep. Price: Opening Health Insurance To People With Pre-Existing Conditions Is A ‘Terrible Idea’
Source: ThinkProgress
One of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act prevents insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. But Republicans seek to repeal the law in its entirety and have gone to great lengths to oppose the new consumer protection. Just ask Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a medical doctor, who has introduced a replacement bill which would not require insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions. When asked why he omitted that provision, Price was blunt in his assessment:
They are even divided over whether some of the popular pieces of Obamas health law are a good idea. For example, most Republicans support the health laws requirement that insurance companies accept all applicants but the replacement plan put forward by the most prominent Republican ignores that idea.
Its a terrible idea, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the sponsor of the plan, told POLITICO. He said Democrats only enacted the provision in order to require exactly what kinds of insurance Americans must have. He would rather expand coverage voluntarily.
Price may think opening coverage to Americans who need it most is a terrible idea, but for many of those Americans, it is a matter of life or death. As many as 122 million Americans have an illness which could result in an insurer denying them coverage; they paid as much as $4,844 more a year for health care than those without pre-existing conditions. And a study from 2009 found that 45,000 Americans a year died because they dont have access to care.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/01/474234/price-pre-ex/
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)As a person with a pre-existing condition, I say Rep. Price can go fuck himself into the middle of next week.
47of74
(18,470 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)He's also a doctor. Why would anyone visit a doctor who thinks people born with health conditions should just fuck off and die?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)for his taxpayer paid health insurance to kick in??
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)First, we terminate YOUR government-provided healthcare coverage; then we send you out into the market for YOU to find coverage.
At 57, I'm pretty certain the good folks in the insurance industry can find a reason to exclude you; whether for an actual pre-existing condition or because you are approaching the age that, actuarially, you will begin to cost them a lot of money.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Considering that its onset is at birth (or maybe conception, depending on how wacko your state legislature is).
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)if you live here in Arizona, with the wackiest of the wacky state legislature, 2 weeks prior to conception.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)One thing that Arizona politicians from Arpaio to Brewer have accomplished is to render themselves incapable of being satirized. No satirist could invent any proposition so ridiculous that it would be unlikely to be true in AZ.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)The entire state legislature, include some of the Democrats, has taken self-parody to artform levels. But what is most troubling, is their apparent failure to recognize it, or care that they, and by extension, the state is the subject of national ridicule.
atreides1
(16,103 posts)Showing his true self...
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Another "America" showing his true self.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Tom Price is 1) an orthopedic Dr., 2) a Dr. to sports stars who have plenty of money and 3) is, was and always will be an arrogant fool. He's never treated a poor patient in his life.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)All they have ever shown the world is a clear look into their rotting souls.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)"mainstream" media. This asshole is representative of the Repuke Party. In a country with a truly free press this kind of backward, mean-spirited attitude would never be swept under the rug as it is here.
AllyCat
(16,252 posts)It is a terrible idea if you are an insurance company CEO because it means you will be buying one less mansion this year.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)It's bad enough people may believe this or talk about privately, but to shout it out in a public forum as if it was acceptable was a real punch in the gut. Who the hell have we become?
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)You pay your premiums. They have a good time on your money and give some of it to politicians. If you need insurance benefits, they tell you to fuck off.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)just saying!
maxrandb
(15,378 posts)when people said their Health Care plan was "Hurry up and Die"??
What a fucking asshat!
cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)"Re-elect Sen. Tom Price: The Pro "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly! candidate."
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)The other speaker is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Notice how Price uses talking points and also seems to take the 2010 GOP takeover of the House as some sort of mandate, as though the nation relied only on one chamber for laws.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/04/rep_wasserman_schultz_health_care_reform_is_creating_jobs.html
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)this is just the beginning.
It's why Obamacare will fail, and why we need single payer.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)so hey if the expense of cleaning up the dead from whomever gets kills when one of those is off his meds... is somehow cheaper than just treating the person. he might have to go to a psych himself
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I used to like him (before he ran for Congress) and hoped that he would be on our side once he got there.
But he is so deep in the pockets of the Republicans and the insurance industry, I think he has completely lost his moral compass.
Shame on you, Tom (and I hope you read this).
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)it's called birth!
We all start to age once we're born. Some better than others. Will broken legs prevent you from getting coverage if you fell once as a kid? How about your eyes? Is getting old and losing your focus a pre-existing condition? Of course it is. We grow up and we grow old. We get the flu. We get colds. We get glasses and some of us hearing aids. Some of us have carpal tunnel too from repetitive motion careers. What are we supposed to do? Pay 12000 a year for premiums that reject every treatment we get? Why bother.
Make health care part of being human and why is it that every other first world country 'GETS THAT' except the USA.
A healthy citizenry is a healthy nation, economically, emotionally and culturally.
One can dream right?
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)And while we are at it, we shouldn't be offering education to those who are uneducated. Education should be reserved for those people who are already educated. Putting uneducated people in the school system drives down the quality of out standardized tests scores and drives up costs as we try to educate them.
Jesus Buddha in a Disco, did they skim these representatives out from the bottom of the reservoirs during the last drought?
louis-t
(23,309 posts)Fuckheads.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)that is all I can say about Republicans
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)with him, that there is virtually no chance of unseating him.
Is that accurate?
tanyev
(42,661 posts)affected by a very serious medical condition which would keep them from getting insurance.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)no matter what.
goclark
(30,404 posts)from Health Care INsurance
Megahurtz
(7,046 posts)Daniel537
(1,560 posts)Now can i trust you to vote for single payer universal health care for all so we don't have to worry about these insurance companies to begin with?
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Price is simply reflecting that our current system is based on profit. if you force insurance companies to cover those that have pre-existing conditions and may cost them, their profits go down. Boo-hoo Wall Street. Further the big bad Obamacare makes insurance companies actually spend their money on providing healthcare and not exotic trips for executives with prostitutes.
Those with pre-existing conditions are exactly the people that the health care system needs to serve. They have conditions that may require occasional or continuous treatment. But healthcare is about caring for those that have health issues.
Correction, health care should be about promoting healthy life styles and preventive care and only, as a last resort, caring for the sick.
Price should have his medical license revoked for such foolishness. Unfortunately the un-Deal Deal in Georgia loves him some "price time".
cbrer
(1,831 posts)From Wikipedia:
In 2011, he voted to prohibit funding of NPR[2], to terminate the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program[3], to extend the PATRIOT act[4][5], to repeal portions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on multiple occasions[6][7],to reduce non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels[8][9][10](and subsequently voted against several amendments offered via motions to recommit with instructions)[11]),to reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions[12], to provide funding for government agencies, including the department of defense, through September 30, 2011[13], to cut the Federal Housing Authority's refinancing program[14], and against a resolution which would force the president to withdraw American forces from Iraq[15].
What a fun guy!