DID ANY OF THE REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE PLANS CHANGE FROM THE CURRENT PRE-EXISTING-CONDITION SCREENED SYSTEM?
NO, ALL THE REPUBLICAN PLANS KEEP THE PRE-EXISTING-CONDITION SCREENED SYSTEM? ( I verified this 9/2009 and again on 2/11/10 examining the plans in the footnotes on the copy of the here=”GOP solutions for America” carefully. These 8 plans are all just minor patches that will continue to leave many people uncovered and/or destined for bankruptcy, either when they make just a little more, or have a little more assets, than free Medicaid allows, or when they have a pre-existing condition. Further, many of the Republican proposals have very deceptive wording, to make it look like they’re solving the pre-existing-condition problems. Details below. Click here to get there. GROWTH OF HEALTH CARE COSTS, AND LIFE EXPECTANCY, AROUND THE WORLD Click here to get there. “BUY INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES”?? This was an insidious proposal whose effects are probably above the heads of most of the Republican Congress People–I think they’re mostly lawyers with no head for economic mechanisms. They are p
