Lying or Stupid
Jul. 16th, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribSo, the House Committee on Education and Labor rolled out a health care reform bill. You can get all the information you want on the bill at their official site, including the full text of the bill.
The usual suspects trotted out an editorial from Investor's Business Daily screaming that "Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal."
Except it does no such thing. The provision in question is entitled "GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED" and, well, defines what individual (not group AKA "provided by my employer") coverage will be considered grandfathered and thus exempt from the various requirements of the health insurance exchanges.
Anybody representing the language as "banning private insurance" is either lying or stupid.
The usual suspects trotted out an editorial from Investor's Business Daily screaming that "Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal."
Except it does no such thing. The provision in question is entitled "GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED" and, well, defines what individual (not group AKA "provided by my employer") coverage will be considered grandfathered and thus exempt from the various requirements of the health insurance exchanges.
Anybody representing the language as "banning private insurance" is either lying or stupid.
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Date: 2009-07-17 03:33 am (UTC)