Why would GOP contest health plan?
With the unveiling of the Republican Party agenda on Thursday, House Republican leader John Boehner pledged to repeal the health-care bill championed by President Barack Obama.
Among the provisions of the bill that became active last week are: allowing young people to remain on parents' insurance until age 26; eliminating discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions; preventing insurance companies from dropping a customer when that person gets sick (nor can they look for errors on insurance applications and then refuse to pay for a service when someone gets sick); eliminating lifetime limits on coverage; requiring new plans to offer free preventive care; and expanding the ability to appeal decisions made by the health plan.
Maybe, just maybe, we should ask the House Republican leader what is so objectionable about those reforms. It is hard to see why even the party of No would object to these sensible reforms.