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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:22 AM Original message |
Why did the Senate allow insurance companies to exclude pre-existing conditions for adults |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
1. Right or wrong policy, it's *political* suicide |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Do you think there is any chance it will reconcile with the house bill to all it? /nt |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. And there's the trick - with interlocking corporation boards, are the |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. Why were health ins. companies permitted to retain their anti-trust exemption? |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Harry Reid dropped the repeal for Ben Nelson. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Nelson needs to be fried for that. nt |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That is another good point, but the pre-existing exclusion for adults until 2014 will potentially |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. In Stalin's words - One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. nt |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Sickening |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
7. because the insurance lobby wrote the bill |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
9. Influence by the "Baby-Lobby" I suppose. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
10. Because the leadership blinked when opposed by senators in the pay of the insurance companies. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
11. I think these things will get changed, and soon. But it will be a real battle. |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. If they don't get changed soon it WILL be a disaster /nt |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. It's great that you were able to start your remodeled |
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change_notfinetuning (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. Because our country is anti-Christian and anti-Golden Rule. n/t |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
15. 180,000+ dead americans is acceptable to democrats. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. Why did the Senate allow insurance companies to write this bill? |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
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