Democrats’ Plan to Help ‘Uninsurables’ Requires 6-Month Wait – FOXNews.com.
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.
Got it, you have a pre existing condition, you wait. Yes, your tumors may grow out of control in the mean time. Oh well.
Senate Finance staffers say the restriction is meant to prevent people switching from more expensive coverage to take advantage of government assistance.
Brilliant.
November 5, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Somebody–I forget where I read it– called these “reform” plans No Insurance company Left Behind.
November 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM
That is a very good description. Get a load of this bull in their proposals:
When the House and Senate bills are compared, the legislative differences and their impacts on surgeons and the surgical patient are striking:
Independent Medicare Commission
Senate – Establishes an independent Medicare commission whose primary task is to reduce overall Medicare spending (using only Part B dollars – hospitals are carved out) without appropriate checks and balances.
House – No independent Medicare commission.
Budget Neutral Bonuses for Certain Physicians
Senate – Bonus payments to primary care physicians and rural general surgeons funded through reductions in payment to all other physicians (budget neutrality).
House – No budget neutrality.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
Senate – Mandatory participation in a seriously flawed PQRI program with penalties for non-participation.
House – PQRI remains voluntary and non-punitive.
Penalties for Resource Utilization
Senate – Reduces payments to physicians who are found to have the highest utilization of resources without regard for patient acuity or complexity of the care being provided.
House – No penalties for physicians with the highest resource utilization.
Application Fee
Senate – Requires physicians to pay an application fee to cover a background check for participation in Medicare despite already being obligated to meet considerable requirements of training, licensure, and board certification.
House – No application fee.
Why bother working in the medical field? This is utter crap. The docs will pick and choose those with the least amount of risk without torte reform. No way to make a living. Remember, right now they make .23 on the dollar. Malpractice insurance premiums will stay the same. http://www.facs.org/hcr/index.html
You just can’t screw old and sick people.