And that's the House bill. (0.00 / 0)

The Senate bill is worse.

You're not going to get me to talk you down.  I've been saying for a while now that we should just kill the bill.

The anti-rescission language in the house bill is also bad.  It allows for exceptions in the case of fraud, but does not specify how that's to be dealt with, so the insurance company could just rescind the coverage, citing fraud, and then it would be up to the individual to take it to court, with all the attendant legal fees that would entail, assuming the person rescinded would be willing to spend years in litigation in the first place.

I'm sure that if anyone thinks I'm wrong, rather than arguing the point, they'll be more than happy to support an amendment that says insurance companies can't rescind until after fraud has been proven in court.  After all, if that's how one believes it already works, then there's no reason to oppose an amendment which states it explicitly.

(Then we'll switch it at the last moment for an amendment that removes the fraud exception.  What's good for Stupak....)

Health insurance is not health care.
If you don't fight, you can't win.
Never give up. Never Surrender.
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by: Gabriel D @ Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 19:16:44 PM UTC