Page 9 - Lifetime Limits News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

If you overturn it, you lose three to four million jobs. but this isn't just about the economics, lowering of costs and the rest. it's not just about the 20 million people. it's about the 155 million people who get their insurance through the workplace whose benefits from greatly expanded. no more preexisting medical condition. no more lifetime limits on the care your insurer provides. if you have a child, they can stay on your policy until 26 years old and no longer is being a woman a preexisting medical condition. >> thank you. >> one more thing. and insurers, the insurance companies must sp...

Available to young adults up to age 26, that is correct, right? >> the bill that i authored did not include coverage up to age 26. the insurance companies have said that they were working that, that they were including that in their plans going forward, so we felt it was covered. >> and your bill takes away current benefits which include prescription drugs, mental health benefits, and maternity coverage among others, correct? >> it's different in the legislative arena than the administrative arena. there are other factors we would put in place to make certain the individuals had the care and c...

Do you like tax credits that enable low and middle income folks to be able to afford insurance? they say yes. it turns out the actual elements are quite popular with america and they're at a loss of what to do because taking down obamacare would take down health care for more than 20 million americans and decrease the integrity of insurance policies for the rest of america because for a lot of what made other insurance policies better than they were. getting rid of lifetime limits for example so people didn't run out of insurance when they needed it. >> appreciate you being on new day and talk...

Satisfied with it as is or is there tinkering you would do with obamacare? >> any initiative, social security, medicare, medicaid, you always come back and say, in the implementation, what can you learn from, what can you do? american people have to know in overturning the affordable care act, the republicans will do very serious damage to medicare, very serious to medicare. exactly simultaneous with the ryan budget which would remove -- remove the guarantee to medicare. so the affordable care act medicare and medicaid which meet the needs not only of the 20 million-some people who have access...

Preexisting condition for the rest of his life. repeal of the affordable care act is a problem. lifetime limits is a problem. if you're a senior, almost half of medicaid is about long term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with -- this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget, that says we're going to voucherize medicare, we're going to block grant medicaid. so this has a tremendous assault on the health and health security and the financial security that goes with what the affordable care act has done for t...