Page 6 - Lifetime Limits News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It. you own it the moment you were inaugurated. you are the president now. we have to take a moment and realize how incredible, like staggering it is for him to say, i'm just going to let it collapse. i mean -- one second. i didn't interrupt you. i'm going to finish this point. and i want to stop talking about in policy terms and talk about it in people terms. collapse, lose coverage. those are not euphemisms, but they are antiseptic terms. what is going to happen when people lose coverage, people who are healthy get sick, people who are sicker die. who is sick get sicker and die. that is what...

Expected to understand the nuances of their insurance policy, but we are. and the annual limits and the lifetime limits are killers for anyone that gets a catastrophic illness. >> i want to talk to you about friday when they came in and testified in front of the intell committee. he said something to our drew griffin about you during all of this process. let me play this for you and get you to respond to his criticism. >> working to improove image? >> no, that is jackie spear relying on her interns too much for information. i was trying to help them explain why they took over ntb

It passed, the senate version passes, it passes the jimmy kimmel test? >> yes, it does. there's no lifetime limits. it lowers the cost of premiums. a big thing is you can have insurance but if you can't afford the premiums, you don't really have insurance. it lowers the cost. other things to consider, which is what i'm looking at now. simply put, if your child is born with a congenital heart problem, there would be no lifetime limits on the cost of the care he or she could receive. >> are there limits on sort of how detailed the plan is that people are going to be able to get? people may be ab...

Reviewing it. one senator set his own litmus test in may. take a listen. >> could you support a bill that allows insurance companies to cap their payouts to customers? >> umm, as you present that, i ask does it pass the jimmy kimmel test? will the child with heart disease need to get everything he or she would need in that first year of life. >> thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> at this point, can you say if the senate version passes the jimmy kimmel test? >> the simple answer, yes, it does. there's no lifetime limits. it does lower the cost of premiums. sure, you have insu...

Back door out of guarantees, including employer plan guarantees of no ceiling on lifetime limits, no ceiling on annual payouts. in other words, they could cap how much they give to their customers each year and over a lifetime. this is something you have been very, very concerned about. could you support a bill? let's not talk in absolutes. but in general terms could you support a bill that allows insurance companies to cap their pay-outs to customers? >> as you present that, i ask does it pass the jimmy kimmel test. was the child born with a congenital heart disease be able to get everything ...