NV-Senate: Angle slams mandated coverage for autism treatment

[WI_DEM]

As key provisions of new federal health care legislation come into effect tomorrow, Democrats are emphasizing Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle’s opposition to mandating insurance coverage for basic illnesses.

In a video of Angle at a 2009 tea party rally released by the party’s tracker, Angle appears to mock a recently passed Nevada mandate for insurance carriers to cover treatment for autism.

“Take off the mandates for coverage in the state of Nevada and all over the United States,” she shouts. “But here you know what I’m talking about. You’re paying for things you don’t even need.

“They just passed the latest one, is everything that they want to throw at us now is covered under 'autism',” she said, using exaggerated air quotes to deliver the word ‘autism.’

Angle believes government mandates on insurance companies to provide certain coverage increases the cost of insurance for everyone. She’s an opponent of the health care legislation recently passed by Democrats and has said she would work to repeal it if elected.

Key provisions of that legislation, including requiring insurance companies to cover children with pre-existing conditions, removing life-time coverage caps and allowing young adults children to stay on their parents’ policies take effect this week.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/damon-political-report/2010/sep/22/angle-slams-mandated-coverage-autism-treatment-new/

[Deep13]

1. I am sick of how we coddle sick and disabled children!

:wtf:

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[damntexdem]

6. Yeah, why do they have to go get sick and/or disabled in the first place?

It's obviously a character defect that they're willing to be sick and disabled.

;-)

[Deep13]

7. If God decided to make them sick, who are we to try to change that?

:dunce:

[Honeycombe8]

2. I think rightwingers don't believe in the condition called "autism." That's part of it.

A radio dj here, talk radio I think, got outright fired (unheard of here in dark red land called Texas), when he criticized people and doctors for diagnosing autism, which is a fraud, he said. He was immediately canned. Lots of Republicans having autistic children, I guess.

So that's part of it. It's code-speak to the wingnuts...there's no such conditin as autism, and now the government is going to force treatment for that bogus condition. Her point is not that it's unfair to the family involved, but it's unfair to the rest of us, since it'll raise costs, having to treat conditions like autism (which don't even exist!).

I think she's right that it'll raise costs. Of course it will. Any time an ins. co. has to pay for more illnesses, and pay out higher amounts in claims, that cost is passed along to the rest of us.

The new healthcare bill doesn't cap costs, as we know. So she's making a valid point. The point she fails to make, though, is that it is a good thing for children with autism to be able to get treatment and get health care.

[dkf]

3. Does that move responsibility for services from Government to the medical profession?

Right now treatments for autism require a lot of servicing in the schools. Is this meant to relieve part of that cost?

[mkultra]

4. I guess the Obama haters and Angle all agree that the the HCR sucked.

[Deep13]

8. Yup. I get a good gauge of that at the gun range.

Those guys all think that health insurance reform is the worse thing ever. Also, Obama is a communist. So am I, apparently.

[impik]

10. Not the first and not the last example of the bonding between

some "Progressives" and teabaggers.

[damntexdem]

5. Yeah, we should only buy policies that just cover the diseases we're going to get.

No sense in buying coverage that we're not doing to need -- and especially that other people will need. Why, that would be like sharing risk, an insurance model, if you will. Can't have that.

;-)

[impik]

9. Autism = Socialism!