Health Insurers: We'll Push to Deny Coverage for Pre-Exisiting Conditions if Idiv.Mandate Overturned

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2. Here is the crux of the issue

because the insurance companies want the mandate. Without it they are forced to cover people who wait until they need insurance to buy insurance.

As the article says, they will need to pass a new law which repeals those two portions of the reform. This seems unlikely to me. I don't see how they get 60 in the Senate and I doubt Pres. Obama (assuming he wins a second term) signs it even if they did.


If we assume that the mandate is overturned as a stand alone clause and no law can be passed and signed to repeal those portions of the reform then where are we?

The insurance companies will want some kind of waiting period between when people purchase insurance and when they can start to be payed benefits. Evan that doesn't solve their problem and again there is no guarantee it will be passed.

I think once the insurance companies are properly screwed then they will demand that "Big Government" steps in to cover these people and their lapdog (R)s will take up the cause. IMO this is the only viable path to the public option that we should have had in the first place. It is going to take some doing to get there but the possibility still exists.