Rep DeFazio on GOP Plan: If You've Got a Problem, Call the Mariana Islands Insurance Commissioner
By Nicole Belle Saturday Nov 07, 2009 4:00pm
Woot! I love it when we get some plain-spoken truth on the House Floor. Such a refreshing change from the Republican lies and fear-mongering.
The Republican record defies their rhetoric. Remember their so-called Prescription Drug Benefit for Seniors passed in the dark of the night? No one read the bill, didn’t know what was in it. Cost 700 billion dollars ‘cause that was subsidizing the pharmaceutical and insurance industry. But now, they’re worried about costs. It gave the seniors a donut hole.
Now their concern is not about what they’re stating. It’s about their patrons in the insurance industry. Because this bill has real reforms of the worst abuses of the insurance industry. It takes away their unfair anti-trust immunity, so they can no longer collude to drive up premium prices or restrict coverages. The Republicans would continue the anti-trust exemption. This bill outlaws the unfair pre-existing condition restriction. Republicans would continue that for the insurance industry. This bill would not allow the industry to cancel your policy even though you’ve been paying your premiums when you get sick. It’s called recission. The Republicans allowed that abuse to continue. This bill, on our side, outlaws the small print that limits your lifetime coverage, which bankrupts families every day in America. The Republicans allow it to continue.
And that’s not enough. They’ve opened up a new loophole, their so-called national plan: a company would only be regulated by the laws of the state in which it was based when it sold you a policy. If you live in Oregon, but you bought a policy that was written--and oh, by the way, they expand the definition of state to include the territories in the Mariana Islands—so if you’ve got a problem, call the Mariana Islands Insurance Commissioner. That’s the Republican plan and profits to the insurance industry!
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it's getting hard to tell them apart these days.
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Always has.
Seems to be getting worse if that is possible.
Dem's seem to be going off the cliff also. I mean, making people buy Medical Treatment policy's with threat of fines and jail if you do not comply?
Sheesh we need to think about this a bit.
Where did you get that from? I haven't read a thing about that. Is this coming fron the "Panel of death" people? Palin? Never heard about it.
… she’s baaack…
Betsy mccaughey: What the Pelosi Health Care Bill Really Says
Wall Street Journal – Betsy Mccaughey – ?Nov 6, 2009?
The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (HR 3962) is 1990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know.
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Betsy mccaughey Is Wrong About Health Reform — Again!
Huffington Post - [Linda Bergthold Health policy consultant]
Saturday in the Wall Street Journal, Betsy McCaughey, well known for her distortion of health reform in 1993 as well as recently, made the following points about the health reform bill, HR 3962, which is being debated and voted on as I write this. As usual, she sprinkles some truth in among her assertions, which give them the patina of authenticity.
As I have done before, I am analyzing her points, one by one, so that you can better understand some of what is REALLY in this bill. …
Yet millions of unemplyed and uninsured idiots continue to support them. Go figure?
Peter is one of the good guys; i.e. he's smart and even after serving for so many years, he still has a conscience and integrity. He does us proud here in the 4th district.
since it will be a federal law , does that mean that jail time will be at " club fed " , because i can not afford to buy this BS .
incarcerate us poor suckers who can't afford it. Probably some for Profit Prisons traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Instead of debtors prison, we will have "uninsured prison," which ironically will give them socialist government health care for free.
You can't make this stuff up.
"citizens".
Speaking of which, the detainees at Gitmo got flu shots.
Bizarroworld!
place?
I anxiously await Obama's response.
on if US prisons ( other than club fed ) get flu shots , what a perfect breeding ground , oh wait maybe thats the plan after all doesnt darth own some of that action ?
hi lassie
Nice to see you again, laddie ;)
you fell for a rethug lie.
you better be covered by a good insurance corporation if you get sick.
I know a couple of rich folk who dock their extremely large boats (otherwise known as yachts) at the local yacht club but have them registered in the Mariana Islands so they don't pay any taxes on them. Why (k)not. If they are going to open our health insurance to the Mariana Islands then let us be part of the Canadian health care system. We just might live longer. That's not gonna work, it would put a drain on social security and medicare benefits. And as Grayson says, to cut our deficit old people need to die earlier. IT's not that hard to understand. If you're not a politician you should have weak health care so you'll die at a younger age so you're not a drain on our deficit using our retirement benefits. They call it fiscal discipline, Me and Michelle Bachman call it death panels.
The Mariana Islands are not a foreign country - they're a commonwealth in political union with , and under the sovereignty of, the United States. They are US citizens, use the US dollar, have a real zipcode (96950)and area code (670)and an ,albeit non-voting, Congressman. Don't be hating on the Marianas because the repubs want some cross-jurisdictional bullshit for health care. It has nothing to do with them.
They have healthcare insurance here that's probably the same as anywhere else in the US.
Anyplace with coconuts and a US ZIP code can't be that bad...:)
"Forced Abortions & Sweatshops..."
that's what I remember most about the marianas islands...
and tom delay... and jack abramoff... oh it's icky, all right...
i remember al franken on this story since the beginning of his AirAmericaRadio show...
he brought it to light bigtime... one of a few...
Just a 2.5% penalty/fine.
Like a ticket for driving without insurance.
People keep repeating the RWNJ meme. It doesn't make it true.
That'd be $2,500 for someone making $100,000 a year.
Chump change.
Back to court, then jail at some point.
That is a different offense.
There are hardship waivers.
I have the PDF - there is no jail in the bill.
FWIW
It got a ways to go with the Senate where they like to cram things into bills at the last minute or when no one is looking.
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It takes a hell of a lot longer to get out of mess then it does to get into one. I thought we learned that with Bush.
this "Health Care"
HONOLULU – The Honolulu Symphony said Friday it's canceling concerts for the rest of the year and filing for bankruptcy, citing a big drop in donations.
...has been fantastically tireless for so long. Thank you Congressman!
Ignorance is the new con/AmericanTalibanParty cool.
Thanks for the laugh all you ignorant cons.
No one is going to debtors prison for lack of healthcare.
This is just a small step towards a better world for our citizens.
I know you cons need authority figures to tell you what to think. Daddy figures like Blecch and OxyRush but my cod please show some ability to think critically. Do some research on your own.
Healthcare for all is a good thing.
as my then college student daughter admonished me several years ago -
it's "w00t"... as in "w-zero-zero-t".
c'mon girl... ... or have the standards changed...?
i keed :-)
The Repugnant Party is a subsidiary of the Insurance industry .
It about fucking time a democrat stood up and viciously attacked the republicans lack of a plan. If the democrats were doing all along they might be winning this debate without having to sell farm to pass a watered down bill that doesnt cover a fly on someones ass.
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