National Nurse Union shows why Dem health insurance is junk insurance

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Rose Ann DeMoro:

As the NNU has said in its statement on the bill, the loopholes include:

  • Provisions permitting insurers and companies to MR SUBLIMINAL [murder us] more than double charges to employees who fail "wellness" programs because they have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol readings, or other medical conditions.
  • Permitting insurers to MR SUBLIMINAL [murder us] sell policies "across state lines", exempting patient protections passed in other states. Insurers will thus set up in the least regulated states in a race to the bottom threatening public protections won by consumers in various states.
  • Allowing insurers to MR SUBLIMINAL [murder us]charge four times more based on age plus more for certain conditions, and continue to use marketing techniques to cherry-pick healthier, less costly enrollees.
  • Insurers may continue to MR SUBLIMINAL [murder us]rescind policies for "fraud or intentional misrepresentation" - the main pretext insurance companies now use to cancel coverage.

However, the actual care-givers MR SUBLIMINAL [Not the murderers us] aren't giving up:

"NNU and nurses," said [NNU co-president Jean] Ross, "will continue to work with the thousands of grassroots activists across the nation to campaign for the best reform, which would be to expand Medicare to cover everyone, the same type of system working more effectively in every other industrial country. The day of that reform will come."

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