Page 2 - Coverage Mandates News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Usual expenses in medicine. where you save. and it's not really magical, where you say this you don't have to have enormous subsidies from the federal government that you have in obama care because the federal government imposes all kinds of coverage mandates like contraception and other stuff that the government leaves up to you and your doctor. so i think it's a very good alternative and it is a criticism of the house and haven't presented a plan like this, having been in the office now for about 8 or 9 months. it should have been on the table in january. >> and it adds to walker's argument ...

>> well, you know, here's the point. this bill was passed in march of 2010, shep. and the insurance companies and the insurance regulators for the last three and a half years have been working on the basis of trying to make this all work. based on the mandates and the changes that were in obamacare. now the president comes out in the middle of november, 0 month -- less than a month before the insurance companies have to set, if you're going to get a policy on january 1st january 1st they have to decide by december 15th. and he says all those policies that were absolutely substandard, couldn't ...

>> steve, perhaps the most serious of element is nothing to do with the employer mandate or the individual mandate. i think a lot of the most serious problems has to do with coverage mandates. i want to put up statistics. this week, 300,000 people received notices from florida blue cancelling their existing policies because they don't meet obama care standards. 160,000 got notices from kaiser from california for the same reason. house speaker boehner said more people in the month of october may end up losing coverage than signing up and getting coverage. >> it's an extraordinary development. n...

I am telling you, i want you all to pay attention over the next five months and see if they're offering a a single thing that they did not try when they were in charge because you won't see it. it will be the same stuff, the same oaky dock. >> the president is trying to tie mitt romney to president bush, while mr. romney is trying to tie mr. obama to the struggling economy with the idea he doesn't know how it fix it. yesterday romney looked ahead to today's speech by the president. >> his rhetoric will be soaring and eloquent, but i'd suggest a look at the record more than the words. the polic...

>> the cost to unwind or inimplement, you know, i think would be small relative to the higher costs that need to be incurred between now and 2014 when exchanges take effect. so, again, i think most of the industry wouldn't mind, you know, unwinding whatever has been spent. there are exceptions including companies, you know, that would benefit from the expansion of coverage to the uninsured. >> reporter: and under the health care law, some businesses would likely make money as tens of millions of additional americans would have health insurance paying their medical expenses, though to points sa...