EDITORIAL: Secret gets out
Thankfully, the latest version of health care legislation to be approved by
Nothing, indeed, is simple about the health care law. It took a health law professor,
The bill would allow states, rather than the federal government, to eliminate in 2020 Obamacare's rule that insurers may not deny coverage and may not excessively price coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
According to the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, eliminating the price protection in
Small wonder, then, that proponents of this travesty would exempt themselves from it. So an insurer in South Dakata, say, could deny or exorbitantly price coverage for anyone with a pre-existing condition -- which means just about everyone -- except the state's House member, two senators and their staffs.
Now that the language has been discovered, Republican leaders say they will scrap it. But the attempt to sneak the provision into the law is proof enough that the entire bill should fail.
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