| Stop The Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 9, 2012 |
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John Kerry, D-MA
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"There is another issue: preexisting conditions. Again and again and again, people would be denied the ability to buy health care coverage because they had a preexisting condition of some kind. So if 10 years ago someone had a cancer, even if they were cured of their cancer, the insurance company could either refuse them or charge them a higher set of premiums. People were denied coverage—they just didn’t get it. Women who were pregnant and were applying for insurance heard: Oh, sorry, that is a preexisting condition. You are pregnant. We are not going to cover that."
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| Health Care |
April 19, 2012 |
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Paul Broun, R-GA
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"In doing so, it will help cover a lot of people who are uninsured today because they can’t afford it, and it will also allow people who have preexisting conditions to join those associations and be able to buy health insurance at a price where they can afford it, so it will help cover those people with preexisting conditions. So this will allow those groups to make these associations as well as individuals or businesses to buy the health insurance across State lines. It will provide coverage for virtually everybody."
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| Health Care Reform |
March 29, 2012 |
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Thomas Carper, D-DE
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"A lot of people have focused on the individual mandate as being constitutional or unconstitutional. I am not a lawyer. I don’t pretend to be an expert on that stuff. I studied a little economics when I was a Navy ROTC midshipman at Ohio State. When I got out of the Navy and moved to Delaware to get an MBA under the GI bill, I studied some more economics and all, but I don’t pretend to be a lawyer. But I do know this: Health insurance companies have said to all of us—Democrats, Republicans, Presidents, now and in the past—look, if you expect us to provide health insurance for folks with preexisting conditions, you have to make sure the pool of people we have to cover includes not just people who have preexisting conditions—not just people who are sick or have illnesses or conditions that are expensive to treat—you have to make sure we have a pool of people to insure that includes some healthy people."
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| Health Care |
March 29, 2012 |
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Susan Collins, R-ME
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"It doesn’t have to be this way. The bitter rhetoric and partisan gridlock over the past few years have obscured the very important fact that there are many health care reforms that have overwhelming support in both parties. For example, we should be able to agree on generous tax credits for self-employed individuals and small businesses to help them afford health insurance, thus reducing the number of uninsured. We should be able to agree on insurance market reforms that would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to children who have preexisting conditions, permit children to remain on their parents’ policies until age 26, require standardized claim forms to reduce costs, and allow consumers to purchase insurance across State lines."
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| Fiscal Solvency Under The Republican House Budget |
March 28, 2012 |
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Adam Kinzinger, R-IL
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"Under our current trajectory, Medicare will be bankrupt in just a decade. This plan preserves current Medicare plans for those in and nearing retirement while offering guaranteed coverage options for future seniors, including those with preexisting conditions or tough health histories. It is financed by a premium support payment which would provide more assistance to low-income and less healthy seniors. The Medicare plans will compete against one another, which ultimately will create lower costs and a better quality of care."
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