Aetna Seeks To Avoid Obamacare Rules Next Year

[antigop]

Source: Huffington Post

One of the largest health insurance companies in the United States is advising insurance brokers on how to evade new mandates and benefits set to take effect next year under President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

In an email sent to brokers, the insurance giant Aetna explains how they can renew customers' current health plans before Jan. 1, a strategy the Los Angeles Times reported this week is under consideration at other big health insurance companies.

Obamacare includes a number of new rules for health insurance plans that will become law at the beginning of next year, or whenever existing policies expire. By extending customers' plans before then, health insurance companies and their customers can lock in health plans that don't adhere to those rules for up to one more year.

Among the new rules this approach could skirt are requirements that health insurance cover a minimum set of benefits, prohibitions on turning away people with pre-existing conditions, bans on charging higher rates to sick people or to women, limitations on how much extra older people can be asked to pay, and rules against insurance companies refusing to renew policies.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/aetna-obamacare_n_3009589.html

[onehandle]

1. Nationalize healthcare, seize the assets of all health insurance companies.

Easy Peasy.

[SoapBox]

4. + 1,000

[Angleae]

7. Not so easy.

The 4th amendment prohibits nationalization without due process of law (and compensation thereof).

[JDPriestly]

9. When did you last read the 4th Amendment?

[Volaris]

14. Only if we are to accept the premise

that Corporations maintain the same Constitutional Rights as PERSONS. I say they don't...

[Angleae]

15. But they are owned by people who do (stockholders).

No corporation owns itself. You would have to reimburse all the stockholders, or at least common stockholders.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. How easy would it be to get that through Congress?

[graham4anything]

2. I left Aetna and my healthcare went down 50% thanks to President Obama and Horizon

was $3100.00
now its $1500.00
couldn't do this 12 months ago
NO lifetime cap
and they didn't block pre-exisiting conditions.

100% due to President Obama

some work it early
some want to delay it

ta ta aetna. It was a long forced relationship that had on our part a happy breakup.

Thank God for President Obama. As said, I couldn't do this last year and was trapped.

Everyone who benefits so far or when they do, shout it from the roof.
Because people want to sabatoge it and go backward

It's a great move forward. And even more great moves are coming.

The genius of moving slowly forward is the door was opened, and they perservered enabling more tomorrow and more the day after tommorrow and more and more and more and more
til the end goal is reached

Whereas some wanted nothing and the status quo.

President Obama made history happen.

[davidwparker]

11. +1

[antigop]

3. Link to the LA Times article

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-health-renewal-loophole-20130402,0,7315979.story

[Politicalboi]

5. Good to know

My mother has Aetna, so we will be looking soon to change that before they hold us hostage. I hope they go broke.

[antigop]

6. Evidently the other insurers are looking at this as well, according to the LA Times article. nt

[cbrer]

8. Do you think they're in business for YOUR health?

Nope. Their bottom line's health.

Lots of money for killing.

Little funds for healing.

Welcome to America!

[judesedit]

10. I'm so glad I dropped them.

[AngryOldDem]

18. I'm so glad they dropped ME.

I'm self-insured and I had Aetna as my health policy. I guess they didn't like what my state was doing vis a vis insurance, so they pulled out. I've found a much better, more comprehensive, and cheaper plan (as of right now) that I am very happy with. So far my new plan has covered every claim that's been submitted for me. Can't be happier.

Fuck Aetna.

[bigdarryl]

13. UNFORTUNATELY my Retirement is attached to Aetna

I don't pay anything but then again they don't cover everything either like Testosterone therapy and plastic surgery

[and-justice-for-all]

16. That should be considered the same as tax dodging..

and there should be heavy penalties for this shit.

[Zoeisright]

17. I just wish there was a hell so those fuckers

would burn in it. Insurance company execs have to be the scum of the earth. They literally kill people and make themselves millions doing it. FOAD, Aetna.

[Occulus]

19. Didn't many of us here see that coming when the Health Insurance Profit Protection Act was passed?

And when HIPPA (aka the ACA) was passed, didn't we get shouted down by the cheerleaders who said this just simply couldn't possibly ever happen?

Sometimes I hate being right.....

[Yo_Mama]

22. Yes

Somehow this mass delusion - that all of a sudden insurers would stop acting like insurers - has been very persistent.

But now that the thing is really going into effect, we're all going to discover that if you shift more control to the worst-functioning part of a system, the system will begin to function even worse.

Who could have dreamed???

[tabasco]

20. You can bet the repukes will try to help them.

Sorry fuckers.

[Yo_Mama]

21. That is one of the rules, not an evasion of the rule

If you make the rules that way, one shouldn't be surprised if everyone does this.

Perhaps this rule should not have been issued!!!!