Provision in HealthCare Bill would make Private Insurance Illegal

July 16, 2009 Albert Milliron politics 0

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President Obama has assured Americans that they can keep their private insurance if they want to but, he didn’t mention the process by which to do so.  He also didn’t mention that those with Individual private coverage cannot make any changes once the option is chosen.  This is a very good reason why we should not count on our legislators to read and interpret Bills for us.  We must be pro-active and read the bill ourselves even if it is 1,018 pages long. 

Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:

“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 the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

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