I'd like to know who when and how the annual cap was put back into the Senate bill.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

That is a particularly egregious policy and one that easily sends thousands of American families into bankruptcy court every year. This is a specific policy that President Obama has been clear to disapprove of and one of the polices he said would cease as soon as the bill was signed.

So who how did it reappear? I know someone can share the facts with us.

[polichick]

1. Don't know who did it, but heard or read that it was slipped in VERY QUIETLY. nt

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. It's really important to me to get the facts on this.

I think it will provide a LOT of insight.

[madfloridian]

2. Good point.

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[sinkingfeeling]

4. Cap-cost loophole cut in Senate health-care bill

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2010487439_congress12.html

WASHINGTON — In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health-care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care.

[damntexdem]

7. Still not good enough:

"The idea would be to narrow the range of limits that could be imposed and then gradually phase them out over several years."

The idea should be to PROHIBIT the limits.

[chill_wind]

5. K & R

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Jane Hamsher/Firedoglake says it was Harry Reid himself

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/11/harry-reid-slips-lifetime-limit-into-senate-bill/

"People are asking who put this in the bill. The only person who could put this in the bill is Harry Reid. As Majority Leader, Reid alone is responsible for combining the bills that came from the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate HELP Committee into the bill that went to the floor of the Senate. But neither of those bills had a lifetime limit on benefits. That was manufactured solely by Reid–in violation of the promise made repeatedly by President Obama."

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WOW! Acting alone or at someone's behest?