Speaking of the uninsured: ten of that 46 million are eligible for already existing government insurance programs.
I have no doubt the insurance executives I used to work with were doing high fives when the public option bit the dust, and their favorite part of the bill -- the mandate that will require us to buy their insurance products if we're not eligible for an existing public plan like Medicare, Medicaid or the VA program -- became the law of the land.
Any news for existing pensioners?
"Sharknado" (For existing).
But there are also people who are trafficked, seek to reunite with family, or are driven by poverty and environmental degradation in African countries, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, who for the most part are not eligible for asylum under existing laws.
Many of the young immigrants who have sought help for deferred action were victims of crimes or were abandoned, neglected or abused by a parent, making them eligible for visas under existing programs, lawyers said.
Policies eligible for inclusion were existing or proposed national or international agricultural policies that could directly affect the price of food: defined as output price policies; trade liberalisation policies or public distribution system polices.
It will also continue to use the school census (for mainstream settings) and the alternative provision census (for non-mainstream settings) to collect annual data on students eligible for FSM under the existing arrangements.
And somehow, despite the fact that the vast majority of child refugees are eligible for humanitarian relief under existing law and shouldn't be locked up in detention facilities, the president has announced he'll send them all "home".
Additionally, after becoming eligible for Medicare, patients with existing employer-sponsored health insurance must undergo a 30-month "coordination period" during which time the employer is designated the primary payer and Medicare the secondary payer for healthcare services.
