Health Care Reform Chronicles Thread #1 For 12/11/09: Oh Harry And His "Spine" Showing Corruption
It is pretty amazing how the "spineless" label gets placed on Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, when the thing most concerning about him is his sneaky corporate ways. The latest evidence that you are about to read further exhibits the treachery he can bring on the nation. First, take a look at this : A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates. The legislation that originally passed the Senate health committee last summer would have banned such limits, but a tweak to that provision weakened it in the bill now moving toward a Senate vote. But this was suppose to never happen, and Obama certainly didn't want that at all: When President Obama gave his speech on health care on September 10 , he promised that there would be no limit on lifetime benefits under the health care bill: They will no longer be able to plac...