Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
President Obama repeatedly promised that if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Liberals now say he meant you could keep it if it met the requirements of the new law. What are those requirements?<\/p>\n
The Affordable Care Act requires every health insurance policy to cover 10 essential categories of services, with details to be approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The essential health benefits package must cover the following general categories of services:<\/p>\n
Ambulatory patient services<\/p>\n
Emergency services<\/p>\n
Hospitalization<\/p>\n
Maternity and newborn care<\/p>\n
Mental health and substance abuse disorder services, including behavioral health treatment<\/p>\n
Prescription drugs<\/p>\n
Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices<\/p>\n
Laboratory services<\/p>\n
Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management<\/p>\n
Pediatric services, including oral and vision care<\/p>\n
Policies that didn’t include all those coverages are being dropped by insurance companies. People are being offered more expensive replacement policies that cover all the services.<\/p>\n
Dog Gone echos the new Liberal lie, saying the old policies were “junk policies,” being replaced by newer, better policies, so they’re worth the increased premium.<\/p>\n
My wife and I are in our late 50’s. Our children are in their 30’s. We have no need of maternity and newborn care. We have no need of pediatric services. 20% of the policy coverages do us no good but are included in the premiums. Adding more bells and whistles that I cannot use does not add value and does not make the policy worth the extra premium.<\/p>\n
Lies, to justify Lies, to explain Lies, to cover up Lies. My grandmother used to say “For shame, for shame, all the dogs in town know your name.”<\/p>\n
I’m glad she’s not here to see this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And she were, she’d be paying for well child visits on her plan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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