Hearing the dems screwed up the wording and kids with pre-existings

[MsDoodahs]

will NOT be covered until 2014.

Evidently, they didn't bother to read what was written that they voted on...or maybe they did and this is a little SECRET gift to the insurance companies.....

[Fox McCloud]

hmm? could you provide me with the text or summary that states such?

If so, wow, talk about an "epic failure" on the Democrats behalf.

[angelatc]

hmm? could you provide me with the text or summary that states such?

If so, wow, talk about an "epic failure" on the Democrats behalf.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=237213&highlight=Oopsie

[JenaS62]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gap-in-health-care-laws-apf-4272209396.html?x=0&.v=1


"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.

Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.

Under 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. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year.

Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems.

Obama's public statements have conveyed the impression that the new protections for kids were more sweeping and straightforward."

[Juan McCain]

Don't tell anybody . . . Obama didn't even read the whole bill that he signed into law either.

http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq47/panamajohn/shhh.jpg

[Bucjason]

This was probably the only way they could get decent CBO numbers to show thier constituents.

Don't worry they will go back and fix it when we aren't paying attention , and add about a trillion more to the deficit in the process....

[dannno]

This was probably the only way they could get decent CBO numbers to show thier constituents.

Don't worry they will go back and fix it when we aren't paying attention , and add about a trillion more to the deficit in the process....

You know, this is probably the answer right here..