Feingold: Raising Fees on Sick Kids

Russ Feingold is SO proud to have voted for ObamaCare.

Is Feingold proud that under ObamaCare children with serious medical conditions may pay higher premiums?

From the New York Times:

The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law allowed it.

Earlier this year, major insurers, faced with an unprofitable business, stopped issuing new child-only policies. They said that the Obama administration’s interpretation of the new health care law would allow families to buy such coverage at the last minute, when children became ill and were headed to the hospital.

In September, the administration said that insurers could establish open-enrollment periods — for example, one month a year — during which they would accept all children.

Now, on Wednesday, the administration, answering a question raised by many insurers, said they could charge higher premiums to sick children outside the open-enrollment period, if state laws allowed such underwriting, as many do.

Insurers “can adjust their rates based on health status until 2014, to the extent state law allows,” said Jay Angoff, director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The difficulty in preserving access to child-only insurance policies is the latest example of unintended consequences of the new law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

"[T]he latest example of unintended consequences of the new law."

That monstrous health care bill is loaded with "unintended consequences."

Proud, Russ?

Wisconsinites had the good sense to oppose ObamaCare. Feingold didn't have the good sense and the decency to listen. He ignored his constituents and voted for it anyway.

Are you proud, Russ?

Can you hear me now, Russ?