ObamaCare will not protect children with pre-existing health conditions from being denied health coverage -- not until 2014. This despite endless talking points and promises to the contrary, the Associated Press reports:
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...
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.
But that's not what the law clearly says.
Prohibits health insurers from excluding coverage of pre-existing conditions for children. Effective six months after enactment, applies to all employer plans and new plans in the individual market. (This provision will apply to all people in 2014).
So children with pre-existing conditions CANNOT BE DENIED COVERAGE from insurers starting 6 months after the bill is signed into law.
And it's not just highlighted by Fox"Nation", the Associated Press is actually reporting this. Why are people reporting that which is clearly NOT in the language of the law?
Am I reading this wrong myself? I keep re-reading it and it's pretty clear to me that kids that have pre-existing conditions will be covered starting 6 months from now.
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