McSame on healthcare: Goodbye NY mammograms if his "Enzi scheme" ever passes

nyceve at California Nurses has a video of McSame's appearance at the Lance Armstrong Cancer Center:

"Allow cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance". This is code speak for the infamous and despicable Enzi Bill, which the Republicans deceptively named the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2005 and had it become law (God forbid), would have thrown even the most modest state health insurance consumer protection laws out the window.

In 2006, Mr. Bush and the U.S. House tried to pass legislation to allow associations to offer health coverage to their small-business members.

It was a bogus attempt to help small businesses buy cheaper health insurance. Many state officials saw right through the hoax because it would have stripped states of their power to regulate carriers and dictate what insurers must cover. For example, in New York where I live, insurers must pay for yearly mammograms if you're over a certain age. Had Enzi become law, good bye to mammograms which insurers must pay for in New York. Just as an aside, you want to know what my insurer pays for a mammogram? $16.00, that's right $16.00.

At the time, the Republicans were trying to foist this crap Enzi on the American people, at least 39 state attorneys general, three governors and 16 state insurance regulators objected to the legislation. Thankfully it died an ignoble death. But make no mistake, this is what McSame is talking about.

Comments

A joke!

"Enzi scheme" / "Ponzi scheme"....

Perhaps too esoteric, but "scheme" is fake...

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

not too esoteric for corrente

I am learning, but never as good as you

Well, you can't know that...

... 'til you're finished learning, right? Which will be when?

And heck, I've been doing this for 5 years and maybe 9K or 10K posts, so some of the experience rubbed off.

And, that headline was better, I just took it and ran with it...

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

"Enzi scheme"

Sometimes a memorable phrase can doom a project or policy. That's not always fair but in this case it's delicious.

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