| Women’S Health Care |
February 17, 2012 |
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Patty Murray, D-WA
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"Finally, they introduced a bill right away that would have rolled back every single one of the gains we worked so hard to get for women in the health care reform bill. It would have removed the caps on out-of-pocket expenses that protect women from losing their homes and their life savings if they get sick. It ended the ban on lifetime limits on coverage. It allowed insurance companies to once again discriminate against women by charging them higher premiums or even denying women access for so-called preexisting conditions—that, by the way, includes pregnancy."
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| Moving Ahead For Progress In The 21St Century Act |
February 16, 2012 |
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Tom Harkin, D-IA
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"My Republican friends and colleagues have been trying to get at the health care reform bill ever since we passed it: Cut it here, nick it there. We have fought that off. The health care act is now making a big impact in Americans’ lives. Need I mention the fact that kids are covered now, even though they may have a preexisting condition. Young people can stay on their parents’ policy until they are age 26. But we put into that affordable care act a Prevention and Public Health Fund, with the aim of transforming America’s sick care system into a true health care system, emphasizing wellness and prevention and public health, keeping people out of the hospital in the first place."
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| Moving Ahead For Progress In The 21St Century Act—Motion To Proceed |
February 9, 2012 |
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Sherrod Brown, D-OH
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"The comment I heard from Senator Barrasso, only from the end of his discussion, was that he wants to repeal the health care law. How do they tell a 23-year-old who now is on her mother’s insurance, who is without a job and doesn’t have insurance, that she is going to lose her insurance she has through her mother’s insurance? How are they going to explain it to the family who has a child with a preexisting condition who now can get insurance when the insurance company denied it before? How are they going to explain it to the Medicare retiree, the 72-year-old woman on Medicare who now has no copay, no deductible, free screenings for osteoporosis, or the man who gets prostate screenings—how are they going to explain that? They want to repeal that."
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| Women’S Health |
February 7, 2012 |
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Barbara Mikulski, D-MD
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"Then we saw that simply being a woman meant being treated as a preexisting condition. I held a hearing about this that was bone-chilling, when we listened to how women were discriminated against and aspects that had happened to them were viewed as a preexisting condition. In eight States if a woman was a victim of domestic violence, she could not get health insurance."
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| Repealing Obamacare |
February 2, 2012 |
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Phil Gingrey, R-GA
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"In fact, they had a flowchart that had an algorithm of how they could possibly make this program work. It included things like saying that people with preexisting conditions had to wait 15 years before they were eligible for a benefit, that these preexisting exclusions would go away. Then they said, no, maybe we ought to eliminate anybody. Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle yesterday said you mean you’re going to deny coverage to people with Alzheimer’s and with metastatic cancer and with type 2 diabetes and renal failure, and all this stuff? These are the things that the Secretary wanted to say, We are going to have to not allow them to participate with these preexisting conditions; not us, not our side of the aisle."
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