A crop-insurance amendment proposed by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) limits premium subsidies for the wealthiest 4percentt of farmers — those making more than $750,000 a year.
Immediately branded "extremist" by members of the Senate's more centrist wing, most notably Susan Collins and eschewed by insurers who worried the provision would bifurcate and destabilize insurance markets, the amendment was pared back almost before its particulars were made known by publication of the bill.
Under Cruz's amendment, insurance companies will be able to sell bare-bones plans, as long as they also offer at least one that's comprehensive.
Further, it is expected that each year more Americans will use the exchange, including people who don't need subsidies, but under the Stupak amendment insurance companies would have no incentive to offer those people coverage for abortion services, since doing so might cost them the business of subsidized customers.
Again, reputable third parties have stated that under the Stupak amendment insurance companies won't bother to offer plans with abortion services because it wouldn't make any business sense to offer a plan that would be available only to a small number of potential customers (the 15 to 20percentt who aren't eligible for any federal assistance).
Passed a constitutional amendment banning insurance mandates.
Not surprisingly, gun owners were much more likely to interpret the Second Amendment as insurance for their right to own a firearm.
In the case of a qualified title insurance company plan, the amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to deductions for taxable years beginning after December 31 , 1979
COBURN: I believe our founders thought that the Supreme Court would be the check and balance on the commerce clause, the general welfare clause, and the insurance of the 10th Amendment, and that's the reason I raised those issues with you.
He has consistently earned "0" ratings from Ohio NARAL and even worked against an amendment requiring insurance companies to cover contraception".
