Eric Cantor: Never Mind On That Health Care Reform Repeal

1:10 pm EST November 30th, 2010 | Conservative, Republicans | 3 Comments

House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law.

Cantor said there are certain elements of current law that will be included in the GOP plan, which he said will move simultaneously with a repeal measure through the House.

Provisions that Republicans will seek to retain include the barring of insurance companies from refusing coverage to patients with a pre-existing condition and allowing young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26.

They won’t ever actually repeal the law, because they know people want the provisions.

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3 Responses to “Eric Cantor: Never Mind On That Health Care Reform Repeal”

SaveFarris says:

December 1, 2010 at 9:00 am

because they know people want the provisions.

They sure do…

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements.

The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials said the state compelled the fund to start buying coverage from a third party, which increased premiums by 60%. State health officials denied forcing the union fund to make the switch, saying the fund had been struggling financially even before the switch to third-party coverage.

The fund informed its members late last month that their dependents will no longer be covered as of Jan. 1, 2011. Currently about 6,000 children are covered by the benefit fund, some until age 23.

The union fund faced a “dramatic shortfall” between what employers contributed to the fund and the premiums charged by its insurance provider, Fidelis Care, according to Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU. The union fund pools contributions from several home-care agencies and then buys insurance from Fidelis.

“In addition, new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”

“If you like your coverage, you can keep it…”
Johnny says:

December 2, 2010 at 10:27 am

they know people want the provisions.

I think it might be more that this will probably fall into the “things we promise the base that we’ll do but never actually get around to doing because then we’d have nothing left to offer them.” Like the perennial promise of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage or flag burning.
Boehner-McConnell: Can These Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? « Left Coast Ledger says:

December 4, 2010 at 3:42 pm

[...] The same holds true for any well-briefed Republican in the Senate and Congress. The talking points are cast in granite; talk repeal, think compromise. [...]