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With House set to debate healthcare, government finds up to half of Americans under 65 have preexisting conditions
Analysis marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or paying more. Full Story »
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Roland F. Hirsch – Jan. 18, 2011 - 06:49 PM
A report that says “17 to 46%” of people need coverage is based on data? Even the reporter says that this is “salesmanship” on the part of the administration, not science. The report is the laughingstock of Washington today, it is so poorly disguised propaganda.
And ObamaCare, in fact, already has caused many people to lose insurance, and many others would have lost insurance except for hundreds of waivers being issued to companies like McDonalds. Millions of people currently covered by Medicare Advantage will lose that coverage as ObamaCare makes it too costly for insurers to continue it. It is expected that in all ~40 million people will lose their coverage when all the thousands of provisions of ObamaCare become fully effective. The Republicans have offered already two years ago plans that would avoid these problems.