Gah! [rolling eyes] Stupid bloggers! We write the bills this long so nobody will find out about stuff like this!
Via Pundette, Investor’s Business Daily reports: sure you can keep your health insurance if you like it. Just like President Obama promised. But you can’t change it. And if you stop it for any reason, ever, you’ll never get to get it back.
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
Oh, come on, it’s the government! They’ve got our best interests at heart!
Say, has MSNBC reported on this? Somebody else click over there and find out, okay, because I’ve got a really sensitive gag reflex.
Hey, look: a Memeorandum thread.
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