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RYAN EXPOSES AN INCONVENIENT TRUTHBy Charlie SykesCongressman Paul Ryan presses the authors of the one-trillion+ dollar, one-thousand+ page health care bill on another disturbing consequence that hits close to home. In less than five years, a Milwaukee-based employer will no longer be allowed to create new insurance policies in the individual market. The creation of new individual private health insurance plans will be illegal as this bill is currently written. From H.R. 3200, Title 1, Section 102: “LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT – Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of [2013].” (Source: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/AAHCA09001xml.pdf) -- Earlier today, Paul Ryan asked House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Staff Director Cybele Bjorklund to clarify this concern:
Ryan: In 2013, let's take Assurant, a large employer in Milwaukee - 800 of which live in the district I represent - Assurant is a big, individual market insurer. After 2013, Assurant can no longer enroll people in their individual market plans. Is that correct?
Bjorklund: Yeah. They can enroll family members of people who are already in and they can choose to participate in the [federal government] exchange, where they will have a large ready market, many of whom will have subsidies behind their backs, and they can operate in there. Ryan: Okay. Just to ask the question again: outside of the exchange, which is where they are right now, they can no longer enroll people in the individual market plans they have after 2013 if they want to continue the insurance they have outside of the exchange. Bjorklund: They can continue to enroll people in the policies that they have operating. They cannot create new policies outside of that window, outside of the exchange, but they can choose to operate in the exchange. Ryan: I guess I'm gaveled. I had more, but I'll ask you later. |
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Sunday, Jul 19 at 8:56 AM Peter wrote ...
"The 2010 elections can't come soon enough." By then it will be too late. This will have been passed and signed into law by Our Lord and Savior before the end of this year.
26357751 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 2:08 PM Anonymous wrote ...
Liberal the 2nd...if you think Obama is going to cover your experimental procedures....you've been smoking experimental marijuana. Good luck.
26274506 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 12:08 PM Elaine wrote ...
I don't mind government competing with the private market, but this bill kills the competition, and what it will do to the economy may be catastrophic. I am a liberal, but will be writing my congressmen because, frankly, writing here does no good.
26266699 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 11:48 AM Liberal the 2nd wrote ...
Honestly, private insurance slashed it's own wrists when it hired teams of employees to figure out ways to kill their paying policy holders in order to increase profit margins. Let the private insurance companies die a slow and painful death as far as I care. I go to the DOT, and I don't like governernment run services, but I'll take it over arguing about experimental procedures and pre-existing conditions on my death bed.
26265189 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 7:44 AM paul wrote ...
Hey Liberal Idiot...when they lose the loophole provision in 2013....what do you think they will do? They will raise rates so high that nobody will be able to afford them. And once that happens, you get moved to Obamacare by default. Your employer won't be able to afford it and poof you are in. Caught in the trap.
26249087 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 7:43 AM WiFritz wrote ...
Liberal, nice job ignoring the entire point of this post. Obama has LIED to the American people, claiming this bill would not kill private insurance. It does exactly that. He LIED by saying this bill would cut costs. The CBO conflicts that very claim. Obviously you're ok with being lied to because you vote Democrat. This bill is not just a path to socialized medicine, it is socialized medicine. Every American that wants continued, quality health care should be mad as hell right now.
26248994 Flag for moderationFriday, Jul 17 at 12:19 AM The General wrote ...
So if I understand this right, if I don't like the coverage my employer provides me, it's either stick with that or go on Obamacare? I can't go and buy my own coverage? Where the hell is the choice in that?
26236612 Flag for moderationThursday, Jul 16 at 9:39 PM Liberal wrote ...
The more inconvenient truth is that Ryan's bill also uses health exchanges -- it's the fix for insurance companies creaming on individual plans with pre-existing condition rules. But Ryan's bill is guaranteed to fail because, guess what, for profit insurance companies LIKE pre-existing conditions loopholes. Assurant thinks their GREAT! Under the Dem plan Assurant can keep ALL their current policies, but they lose the pre-existing conditions loophole on individual policies in 2013.That's fair
26232049 Flag for moderationThursday, Jul 16 at 8:14 PM CK wrote ...
Thank you for bringing this to light. From day one, President Obama and his crew have wanted a government run, national health plan that bureaucrats run. They can dispute this until they are blue in the face, but they support socialistic health care. The 2010 elections can't come soon enough.
26227962 Flag for moderationThursday, Jul 16 at 6:27 PM neomom wrote ...
If you are a small business and want to change insurers? Sucks to be you! Stick with what you got or get Obamacare!
26222759 Flag for moderationThursday, Jul 16 at 3:12 PM Bob wrote ...
You can keep your health care that you have, but you can't enroll in a different private insurance company. The half truths and sliminess of this POTUS is amazing.
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