Paul Ryan wants to end Obamacare protections for people with pre-existing conditions
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/paul-ryan-wants-to-end-obamacare-protections-for-people-with-pre-existing-conditions/Paul Ryan wants to end Obamacare protections for people with pre-existing conditions
Reuters
27 Apr 2016 at 22:21 ET
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan called on Wednesday for an end to Obamacare’s financial protections for people with serious medical conditions, saying these consumers should be placed in state high-risk pools.
In election-year remarks that could shed light on an expected Republican healthcare alternative, Ryan said existing federal policy that prevents insurers from charging sick people higher rates for health coverage has raised costs for healthy consumers while undermining choice and competition.
The rule, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, has been praised by patient advocates for providing access to medical care for people who previously could not afford private health insurance. The Affordable Care Act also bars insurers from excluding coverage for pre-existing conditions.
“Less than 10 percent of people under 65 are what we call people with pre-existing conditions, who are really kind of uninsurable,” Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, told a student audience at Georgetown University.
“Let’s fund risk pools at the state level to subsidize their coverage, so that they can get affordable coverage,” he said. “You dramatically lower the price for everybody else. You make health insurance so much more affordable, so much more competitive and open up competition.”
Charging the same rates to individuals regardless of their medical history is also a key part of group health plans in the private sector.
House Republicans, after repeated votes to repeal Obamacare, have promised to produce their own alternative to the Affordable Care Act as part of a broader policy agenda intended to attract voters in the Nov. 8 presidential election. The policy document is expected just ahead of the Republican presidential nominating convention in July.
High-risk pools, which existed before the healthcare law, are state-level entities that guarantee coverage for people with health problems. Analysts say they can be prohibitively expensive and offer less than optimal health coverage.
Republicans have proposed state-based risk pools as an Obamacare alternative in the past. Last week, the conservative Republican Study Committee recommended risk pools as part of the House policy agenda, saying premiums should be capped at 200 percent of a state’s average.
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What's the point? 
What's up with the "What's the point? " I thought I made the point quite clear, and maybe you missed this part of my reply:
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Unless it happens to them.
Snarlin' Arlen Specter was against stem cell research.
Then he got cancer.
Guess what? All of a sudden he was in favor of stem cell research, because it saved his life.
Republicans don't care about medical issues until it happens to them.
FUCK PAUL RYAN
If they follow through on leaving that's gonna disrupt access for tens of millions of people.
Too big to fail...
Because I'm in a rural area in a red state. I have very few choices. Basically crappy HMOs, and only a few.
It's better than nothing, but not much.
and lived thanks to Social Security assistance when you were young are insufferable, amoral, and a hypocrite.
2011, BILL CLINTON Whispering to PAUL RYAN: Election & CUTS TO MEDICARE at billionaire financier Pete Peterson Conference. Peterson, pictured with Clinton below, has been trying to get to the Social Security $2.3 Trillion Trust Fund for years.
MEDICARE was enacted in 1965 during President Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)
Wiki: Peter George "PETE" PETERSON (Peter Petropoulos) (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, philanthropist, and author, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which he established in 2008 with a $1 billion endowment.
*The group focuses on raising public awareness about U.S. fiscal-sustainability issues related to FEDERAL DEFICITS, ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, and TAX POLICIES.[1] In recognition of his support, the influential[2] Peterson Institute for International Economics was named in his honor in 2006.
Before serving as Secretary of Commerce, Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, which went public in 2007. Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being named chairman emeritus. In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion.
*Peterson has been named the most influential billionaire in U.S. politics.[3]
On August 4, 2010, it was announced that he had signed "The Giving Pledge." He was one of 40 billionaires, led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who agreed to give at least half their wealth to charity.[4] Most of his giving has, however, been to his own foundation, dedicated to forwarding his political views rather than traditional charitable works.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_George_Peterson
He wormed his way into being speaker because that's the duplicitous snake he is.
The voters REJECTED him and Romney and their ideas on a large scale in 2012.
Now hes throat farting ways to cut the "fat" from Healthcare.
It didn't take him long to get back to his kill the poor and disabled stance.
seriously
we're all on ssdi and therefore medicare
cmon you think they let sick ppl work?? 
insurance premiums are unaffordable because the industry is greedy af (and most docs are real incompetent at that)
