I was just told by a staffer for Rep. Tiberi (R) OH that the new health care bill will ...

[haele]

13. Sounds like the representative never read the bill.

Reducing the revenue that provides subsidies for health insurance premiums to bring the costs down, and forcing people with chronic health issues into a minimally regulated "high risk insurance pool" does not belong in a bill where the purpose is to "lower all health care premiums".
Unless your goal is to limit all health care insurance offerings to those who are healthy and financially well off, and drop or exempt anyone that would potentially make a claim while you "invest" their premium payments so that your corporate bottom line keeps looking great.

Allowing states to "waiver" the requirement to protect/cover pre-existing conditions or dump all people with pre-existing conditions into an expensive "high risk pool" does not belong in a bill that purports to cover all pre-existing conditions. Especially since there is nothing preventing health insurance companies to force states to push all pre-existing conditions into that very expensive high-risk pool if they want to continue to have low cost insurance plans for the rest of the people in their state.

Haele