Greenbeard
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It is not funded for those who are still in need of this stop-gap measure which was promised when ACA was signed into law.
Additionally, premiums, deductibles and OPE have doubled or more because of this failed program. The promise was a 'selling' point to those uniformed.
As for Congress, they failed also.
If you're trying to convince me that high-risk pools are ineffective programs, you can stop. I agree!
That's why the only long-term answer to getting coverage to folks with pre-existing conditions is integrating them into the same insurance markets as everyone else and giving them access to all plans in the market. Which is happening this October.
This year, tens of thousands of uninsured Americans with preexisting conditions, the parents of children who have a preexisting condition, will finally be able to purchase the coverage they need. That happens this year, said Obama when he signed the Affordable Care Act into law on Mar. 23, 2010.
There are 115,000 people in the PCIPs right now. So that strikes me as an accurate statement.
How heartless, condescending, out of touch, and in denial of those in need, can you be?
The failed 'promise'...no, I'll call it what it is...the LIE perpetuated in order to pass ACA should have been funded, period. Your 'High-risk' pool statement is BS and you know it!
The promise the ACA was sold on is that folks will no longer face denial at the hands of insurance companies based on medical history. This of course, is true and goes into effect when the exchanges start selling plans for next year this October. Underwriting is largely about to come to an end, which means high-risk pools will no longer be necessary.
It will certainly matter to those folks who have been lied to, bankrupted, prevented from enrolling in this program or even passed away.
What a nonchalant and DGaF attitude you have!!
Shame on you!
Not clear what point you're making. The ACA shouldn't have been passed, or it shouldn't have bothered created the PCIPs at all, and the 100,000+ who've benefited from it should have been left with nothing over the past three years? The exchanges should already be open so that everyone could be part of the system now?
You want more, I understand that. You're about to get it.
I AM in the trenches. I see patient suffering because of ACA. I know many medical facilities who were gung-ho, merely a few short months ago, with plans of expansion for high risk patients. ALL of them have put the brakes on serving those in need and are waiting it out, at the minimum, until 4/2014, waiting for the next shoe to drop.
You wouldn't happen to live in a state that's rejecting the Medicaid expansion, would you?