Top Romney Adviser: States Will Have To Cover People With Pre-Existing Conditions Under President Ro

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

After the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado on Wednesday night, one of Mitt Romney’s top advisers acknowledged that, as a result Romney’s plan to repeal Obamacare, people with pre-existing medical conditions would likely be unable to purchase insurance.

“With respect to pre-existing conditions, what Governor Romney has said is for those with continuous coverage, he would continue to make sure that they receive their coverage,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, referring to existing laws which require insurance companies to sell coverage to people who already have insurance, or within 90 days of losing their employer coverage.

Pressed by TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro, Fehrnstrom said those who currently lack coverage because they have pre-existing conditions would need their states to implement their own laws — like Romney’s own Massachusetts health care law — that ban insurance company from discriminating against sick people.

“We’d like to see states do what Massachusetts did,” Fehrnstrom said. “In Massachusetts we have a ban on pre-existing conditions.”

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Erik Fehrnstrom! The creator of the Romney Etch-s-Sketch

[lalalu]

1. Flip Flop

And so it begins.

[Ed Suspicious]

2. States are unable to deficit spend as far as I understand.

Wouldn't a down economy absolutely decimate already tight state budgets?

[TXDemoGal]

3. Wow...that's a relief

So my dear state of Texas will cover my pre-existing condition?

Yeah, that'll happen...about the time hell freezes over.

[TomCADem]

4. See? The debate is only a few minutes ago and already...

...Romney campaign is starting to walk back things that Romney said.

[wilt the stilt]

5. We had that system before Obamacare

notice how many states covered preexisting conditions- 1 and that all it will ever be.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. The Romney plan is to repeal obamacare and replace it with nothing.

It is a return to the status quo before 2009.

[Paulie]

7. Why is it better to have 50 individual laws

Instead of one federal if banning the pre exising condition exclusion is a good idea?

Arithmetic says it doesn't add up...

[randome]

8. Not only that.

But this idiotic 'plan' -which is something Romney pulled out of his ass at the last minute- doesn't take into account people moving from state to state.

[AardvarkAsparagus]

9. Ban on pre-existing conditions?

Fehrnstrom said. “In Massachusetts we have a ban on pre-existing conditions.”

I guess people with pre-existing cannot move to Massachusetts. Or does he mean they provide for cradle to grave?

[Javaman]

10. First you say you do and then you don't, then you say you will and then you won't. nt

[oldbanjo]

11. A few weeks ago Ryan explained

that if you have Ins existing conditions would be covered, but if for 45 years you have had no Ins you would not be covered, you gambled and lost.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. So, let's have 50 different plans.