Here's how Cory Gardner's bill would and wouldn't protect people with preexisting conditions

[TexasTowelie]

Think of health policymaking like those old-timey variety show videos of people spinning a bunch of plates at once. There’s just a ton going on, and focusing only on one thing will cause the rest of the apparatus to come crashing down.

This, in a tortured-metaphor kind of way, explains why health policy experts say that Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2020 wouldn’t entirely do what its title promises. While the bill does provide some protections for people with preexisting conditions, it doesn’t contain many other provisions that supporters of the current law say are needed to keep the rest of the health insurance policy apparatus from cracking apart like so much fallen china. On top of that, the bill doesn’t contain any of the usual features of legislation that are needed for implementation.

Gardner’s bill

Gardner’s bill is Senate Bill 4506. Its substance is contained within a single sentence that states:

A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage may not impose any pre-existing condition exclusion with respect to such plan or coverage, factor health status into premiums or charges, exclude benefits relating to pre-existing conditions from coverage, or otherwise exclude benefits, set limits, or increase charges based on any pre-existing condition or health status.

In comparison, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), was more than 900 pages long.

Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2020/09/02/cory-gardner-preexisting-conditions-obamacare/

[sheshe2]

1. It is late and I gotta sleep.

I did not read the links.

I will say this, whoosh...the preexisting conditions that we will see from COVID19 are going to kill us if the virus has not. If the GOP stays in power we are going to die one way or the other. They will never cover our needs only there own.