WASHINGTON – You're afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down. Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems. Wait a second. Read the fine print. You may have to be uninsured for six months to qualify.
Holy Cow Batman, don't DIE QUICKLY while you wait for your turn to the highly cost reducing regulated healthcare suckers!
Well fnewt ... the proposed Senate bill DOES include a provision that you be uninsured for six months to qualify ... while the proposed House bill DOES NOT.
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Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems.
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Obama proposed the pool in his September health care speech to Congress. Intended to serve the most vulnerable as a temporary fail-safe, it would stay in place until 2013. That's when insurance companies would be banned from denying coverage because of medical problems.
So I guess you can wait 6 months and receive coverage or simply die under the private sector health care delivery system.
exactly. I think they should come up with 2 systems. Let the ones that love this "good" system stay with it (can not change) and the rest of us cross over.
fine, get a job as a doctor that ONLY serves medicare patients, give each patient adequate care and time during their appointments as well as keep up with the mountain of paperwork and tell me how that works out for ya. I give you less than a year till you prefer to be a greeter at Wal-Mart because it pays better.
