Is the latest GOP healthcare bill as empty as it looks?

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Now, the point is that the insurance companies have already sent their cancellation notice. Except if the bill forces them to continue the contracts, what good will the bill do?

It is another effort by the leadership to continue attacking the White House on Obamacare without really doing anything against Obamacare and hoping their base will not notice (Given the tweets they get, it is not really working either).

But seriously, it is more and more obvious that this is about show and not policy.


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/189499-house-to-vote-next-week-on-keep-your-health-plan-act

House GOP tweaks Obama, schedules vote on Keep Your Health Plan Act (Video)

House Republican leaders announced Wednesday the lower chamber will vote next week on a bill that would allow people to keep their health insurance plan if they like it.

The vote hits at President Obama, who, during the debate over the Affordable Care Act, said people could keep their healthcare plans if they like them. Millions of people, however, have gotten cancelation notices because of ObamaCare's new standards.

Late Wednesday afternoon, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announced via Twitter that the bill would get a vote.

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Upton's bill authorizes insurance companies to keep offering plans that they have said need to be canceled because of ObamaCare's new insurance standards. Since early October, companies have sent out millions of notices to enrollees saying their plans will be scrapped and, in many cases, replaced by more expensive plans.

Landrieu and Manchin have a bill as well, but it seems that it is more tightly written

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/healthcare/189236-senate-dems-admit-obamacare-fix-is-needed-to-fulfill-like-it

The bill, S. 1642, would make changes to the grandfather clause under ObamaCare, which Landrieu said was "not written as tightly as it should have been." Under the bill, all insurance companies would have to continue to offer plans offered before the new ObamaCare standards took effect, and would also have to explain to policyholders how their current plan might fall short of those standards.

Still bad policy, but at least this accomplishes something.

[Bandit]

1. Does that also set in stone prices charged for each plan?

If the costs change does that mean the plan has changed? sounds pretty un-capitalistic to me...