{"id":486827,"date":"2010-03-29T23:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/side-effects-obamacare-doesn-t-work-children-after-all-41553\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T23:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:55:47","slug":"side-effects-obamacare-doesnt-work-on-children-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/486827","title":{"rendered":"Side Effects: Obamacare Doesn?t Work on Children After All"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 03.29.10 04:39 PM posted by Kathryn Nix<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/childrenhcr.jpg">\"\"<\/p>A signature achievement of Obamacare, we were told, was that it would provide immediate<\/i> protection for children with pre-existing conditions.* In the brave new world of Obamacare, no ailing child could be denied coverage.<\/p>\n

Turns out, that just ain\u0092t so.* <ahref="http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Gap-in-health-care-laws-apf-4272209396.html?x=0&.v=1">According to the Associated Press, \u0093Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.* However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now.\u0094<spanid="more-30101"><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u0092s a problem<\/b> Congress could have fixed this without resorting to a massive restructuring of our health care system.<\/p>\n

How:<\/b> Well, they could have made some simple changes to insurance rules to make sure policies will cover conditions discovered after the policy is issued.* They also should have moved to provide a path for the uninsured to get coverage of pre-existing conditions on a conditional basis.* And they certainly should have made it possible for individuals to by coverage from outside their states. This would both allow consumers to shop on a national basis for health insurance that best suits their needs and expand the coverage options available to them.<\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/fixhealthcarepolicy.com\/reality">In a recent video, Heritage analyst Ed Haislmaier lays out how best to reform the insurance market to meet the needs of Americans with pre-existing conditions.* To learn more about patient-centered, bipartisan approaches to health care reform, <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2010\/02\/The-Health-Care-Summit-A-Chance-to-Start-Over-and-Get-It-Right">click here.<\/p>\n

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On 03.29.10 04:39 PM posted by Kathryn Nix <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/childrenhcr.jpg"><\/p>A signature achievement of Obamacare, we were told, was that it would provide immediate protection for children with pre-existing conditions.* In the brave new world of Obamacare, no ailing child could be denied coverage. Turns out, that just ain\u0092t so.* <ahref="http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Gap-in-health-care-laws-apf-4272209396.html?x=0&.v=1">According to the Associated Press, \u0093Under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}