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Thread #123258   Message #2720285
Posted By: heric
09-Sep-09 - 09:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Health Care Reform
Subject: RE: BS: US Health Care Reform
I heard him say that all insurers would be prohibited from denying care or dropping coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition, and that they would not be allowed to drop anyone for a chronic or expensive condition. I did not hear him say (but maybe it's in "his plan") that insurers must accept all comers, even with pre-existing conditions or chronic illness. If the people the insurers don't sign up go to the exchange, and the exhange is supposed to be self-sustaining with its own premiums (he did say that I think), their premiums will be huge, will they not?

He made a couple of references to "his plan." Did he release a plan today, or is he about to?

I was delighted and inspired for the first half of his speech, so glad to see him again, but I find his math impenetrable.