Solving Pre-Existing Conditions Doesnt Take 2,700 Pages

In signing the Senate health bill into law, President Barack Obama said that one of the immediate benefits would be the end of pre-existing medical exclusions for people buying insurance. But Heritage expert Edmund Haislmaier points out how under current federal law, people in employer-based coverage dont face those exclusions. However, it is a problem for people buying insurance on their own (roughly 10 percent of the insurance market). But that problem can be fixed with just three pages of legislation, not 2,700. Instead, ObamaCare goes further than necessary, allowing people to game the system by only buying insurance when they are sick. Having creating that problem, ObamaCare tries to fix it with an individual mandate. Congress could actually resolve the pre-existing conditions problem with basic insurance reforms that dont amount to a government takeover of the U.S. health care sector.

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• Pre-existing conditions
• exclusion
• health insurance
• individual mandate
• ObamaCare
• employer-based coverage
• individual market
• basic insurance reforms

[migkillertwo]

wow, I can't believe a heritage fellow is suggesting this. Bleh!