House schedules vote on Keep Your Health Plan Act (healthcare, Obama, insurance)
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House Republican leaders announced Wednesday the lower chamber will vote next week on a bill that would allow people to keep their health insurance plan if they like it.
The vote hits at President Obama, who, during the debate over the Affordable Care Act, said people could keep their healthcare plans if they like them. Several people, however, have gotten cancelation notices because of ObamaCare's new standards.
Late Wednesday afternoon, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announced via Twitter that the bill would get a vote.
The Keep Your Health Plan Act, H.R. 3350, was introduced last week by House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and more than two dozen Republicans. As of Wednesday, co-sponsorship had grown to 88 members.
Upton's bill authorizes insurance companies to keep offering plans that they have said need to be canceled because of ObamaCare's new insurance standards. Since early October, companies have sent out millions of notices to enrollees saying their plans will be scrapped and, in many cases, replaced by more expensive plans.
What does this bill do if an insurance company doesn't want to keep their policy holder but the policy holder likes his insurance company and wants to stay on?
Will the business friendly Republicans support forcing an insurance company to keep its insured on policy?
Isn't this one of the basic principles of the ACA?
Obama and the Senate will easily quash this foolishness - and I guarantee I'll work hard to quash the re-election of the Virginia folks who are hurting the country with it.
What does this bill do if an insurance company doesn't want to keep their policy holder but the policy holder likes his insurance company and wants to stay on?
Will the business friendly Republicans support forcing an insurance company to keep its insured on policy?
Isn't this one of the basic principles of the ACA?
Obama and the Senate will easily quash this foolishness - and I guarantee I'll work hard to quash the re-election of the Virginia folks who are hurting the country with it.
"Foolishness"?
So you think it is perfectly fine and acceptable that up to 120 million people under the individual, as well as the employer, mandate will lose thier current insurance?
What the hell are you people thinking? This is not the USSR- it is shocking that some presume the authority and right to run other people's lives. This concept of totalitarianism is a basic principle of liberalism that most liberals are very comfortable to admit, but free to promote in action.
Great move reps... Its no win for obama. If it passes it hurts ACA and if he defeats it the country sees his lie was his lie not a mistake in speak.
At first I did not see it this way, I thought the {R}s were throwing Obama a life line. Instead they are giving him just enough rope to hang himself. I think he is deserving with his no compromise attitude you reap what you sow.
Obama and the Senate will easily quash this foolishness - and I guarantee I'll work hard to quash the re-election of the Virginia folks who are hurting the country with it.
Foolishness? Please explain how preventing MILLIONS of people from losing their insurance is foolish? Democrats up for re-election next year are the ones who this is a no-win situation for....and they deserve it.
Last edited by Oldhag1; 11-07-2013 at 06:54 AM..
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