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Public and private insurers might need to refuse coverage for high-cost care that adds little value.
And the Senate just voted down a Republican effort to allow employers and health insurance companies to refuse coverage for contraceptives if they had moral or religious objections.
The amendment, which was enthusiastically endorsed by Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, would have allowed any employer or insurance company to refuse coverage for any activity to which they claim a religious or moral objection.
The Senate narrowly defeated the Blunt amendment, which would have allowed any employer or insurance company to refuse coverage for any activity to which they claim a religious or moral objection.
As long as the debate stirred up by the Blunt Amendment — which would have allowed employers to refuse coverage for health services they felt compromised their religious beliefs — stayed focussed on freedom of religion, it was possible to forget that putting birth control back in political play meant ignoring reality.
At the same time, the administration is loosening regulations on certain types of health insurance policies to allow insurers to refuse coverage for pre-existing conditions.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to make it unlawful for insurers to refuse coverage to such individuals or charge them more for health insurance.
And it was completely legal for insurance companies to refuse coverage to women who were pregnant or might become pregnant in the future.
That in turn encourages insurers to raise rates or refuse coverage for the very people who need it most — low- and moderate-income families, for example, or those who've suffered such setbacks as unemployment.
Having been incorrectly diagnosed, the patient then is placed on either extended antibiotic therapy or some other unproven and potentially harmful unorthodox treatment regimen; this is usually done at the patient's own considerable expense, because most health insurance companies refuse coverage for treatments not shown to be beneficial and safe.
"And Trump made it clear his nominee would vote to overturn the Affordable Care Act, letting insurance companies charge more or refuse coverage for people with pre-existing conditions".
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