Page 49 - Risk Pool News Today

Using the high risk pool, 97% who could use it say no thanks. >> well, the overall on the one year anniversary of the bill, overall numbers are very good. millions of seniors are getting help with their prescription drug coverage. millions of family members of younger americans are getting care, people getting preventive service that didnt get them before. high risk pool is more complicated because people have to wait six months after losing their job or start looking for work to get in high ris...

Priced health care and thats exactly what we intend. bill: ill leave it there. one thing thats been getting a lot of attention this week is the preexisting conditions. will you allow preexisting conditions, under a new plan, at which point its unveiled to the american people, that preexisting conditions will be included in that? >> i think, again, this has been an issue for the marketplace. that the marketplace has dealt with in the past and can again. the real issue on preexisting conditions de...

Pre-existing conditions. would you like to see that stay as well? >> not from the federal level but from the states. in iowa we have a high risk pool. with he support those premiums with tax dollars. the federal government can support that. i dont think we should do that blanket across the country because people wont buy insurance until they get sick unless of course you have the individual mandate and thats the one that i object to the most. that has to go. if it has to go, the rest of the poli...

Part, that you much purchase hundreds. >> the argument is if youre going to lower cost and improve access and improve the quality of care, you have to increase the risk pool. you have to have more people in the pool to lower the cost and spread the risk. thats essential to the patient protections. we believe the way the bill was written was constitutional. >> do you think the courts will go along? >> well, most of the court, out of 14 decisions 12 have not addressed it. one went against us. one ...

As usual. it hasnt worked. so, we will offer a suggestion rather than doing what they like to do. the suggestion is: tighten up the lending guidelines. dont loan to nose who cannot pay back and the risk pool does not need to be increased. duh. >>neil: and you do not neat to back up something that is wrecky. >>guest: if it is less risky we need less money to cover the fact it is in default. and we already have risk pools for fha and the veterans. fannie mae and freddie mac are different. and in t...

Billions have made a bigger mess. and now, more ways to come up with ways to torpedo it including forcing banks to pay another fee to underwrite another crack of cleaning up the mortgage mess. sow are saying "stop." >>guest: they will guarantee loans that, when it comes to fha and v amount are dparned and put together a risk pool. guess what? fha is a risk pool. that is what it was designed to be, that is what the veterans administration is, guaranteeing, and they charge a 1 percent fee were now...

To respond. i responded monday. told her the official position of my office, which represents the executive branch of government as far as this matter is concerned. we have not heard directly back from the secretary. we heard from news reports that they may go ahead and do it themselves this is barack obamas law. barack obama can implement it and theres nothing i can do to stop that but, the sovereign state of georgia is not going to be drawn in to implementing it and jeopardizing its taxpayer d...

New entitlement program. >> greta: you brought up the governor. you are a republican. the current governor is a republican. and you are a republican seeking to become the next governor of georgia, is that right? >> that is correct. >> greta: okay. back to this health and human services letter. youve written to kathleen sebelius, you have said we dont want georgia to be on the hook. we think if we create this high risk pool and theres not enough money the people are going to look us to. if the fe...

Federal government from creating a national program to insure high-risk individuals in his state. however, in a letter to the u.s. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, the commissioner says he has no plans to create high-risk pools at the state level in georgia. here is what he said. >> if secretary sebelius wants to create her own high risk pool and air it to the citizens of georgia, thats well within the purview of the federal government. i cant prevent that. but i dont have ...

Coming, the health care takeover that americans witnessed. they used elections, town hall meetings to say no. every public opinion poll inskuding some cnn polling said they were opposed to the takeover. the arrogant house and senate did it anyway. >> did you think -- was health care better for everyone in the country before the so called obama/pelosi/reid fix? >> i think it will be worse for people. well see the impact in coming months. it will be worse because you will see insurance costs go up...