GA Rep. Price: Opening Health Insurance To People With Pre-Existing Conditions Is A ‘Terrible Idea’
Source: ThinkProgress
One of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act prevents insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. But Republicans seek to repeal the law in its entirety and have gone to great lengths to oppose the new consumer protection. Just ask Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a medical doctor, who has introduced a replacement bill which would not require insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions. When asked why he omitted that provision, Price was blunt in his assessment:
They are even divided over whether some of the popular pieces of Obama’s health law are a good idea. For example, most Republicans support the health law’s requirement that insurance companies accept all applicants — but the replacement plan put forward by the most prominent Republican ignores that idea.
“It’s a terrible idea,” Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the sponsor of the plan, told POLITICO. He said Democrats only enacted the provision in order to require exactly what kinds of insurance Americans must have. He would rather expand coverage voluntarily.
Price may think opening coverage to Americans who need it most is a “terrible idea,” but for many of those Americans, it is a matter of life or death. As many as 122 million Americans have an illness which could result in an insurer denying them coverage; they paid as much as $4,844 more a year for health care than those without pre-existing conditions. And a study from 2009 found that 45,000 Americans a year died because they don’t have access to care.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/01/474234/price-pre-ex/
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Another "America" showing his true self.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other... 
so hey if the expense of cleaning up the dead from whomever gets kills when one of those is off his meds... is somehow cheaper than just treating the person. he might have to go to a psych himself 
And while we are at it, we shouldn't be offering education to those who are uneducated. Education should be reserved for those people who are already educated. Putting uneducated people in the school system drives down the quality of out standardized tests scores and drives up costs as we try to educate them.
Jesus Buddha in a Disco, did they skim these representatives out from the bottom of the reservoirs during the last drought?
From Wikipedia:
In 2011, he voted to prohibit funding of NPR[2], to terminate the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program[3], to extend the PATRIOT act[4][5], to repeal portions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on multiple occasions[6][7],to reduce non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels[8][9][10](and subsequently voted against several amendments offered via motions to recommit with instructions)[11]),to reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions[12], to provide funding for government agencies, including the department of defense, through September 30, 2011[13], to cut the Federal Housing Authority's refinancing program[14], and against a resolution which would force the president to withdraw American forces from Iraq[15].
What a fun guy!
