Senators want law changed to protect patients
Two Democratic senators plan to announce legislation tomorrow that would make it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to someone by dropping entire lines of insurance.
The lawmakers cite the case of Ian Pearl, a 37-year-old with muscular dystrophy, whose around-the-clock nursing care costs more than $1 million a year. Rather than drop the family’s policy, which would be illegal under state law because Pearl needed care, the insurance company canceled the entire class of insurance policies in the state, according to the senators.
Their bill, named Ian’s Law, would require insurance companies to get permission from the state Insurance Department before canceling a class of insurance policies. It is being sponsored by Sens. Neil Breslin, D-Albany, and Eric Schneiderman, D-Manhattan.
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If government has any role whatsoever, other than national security, that role should be to take care of people who face catastrophic situations. That’s the original plan for the welfare system, which would work and be supported were it not totally bent out of shape by our duplicitous, pandering, brain-dead politicians. They have taken a noble cause and kicked it to the curb. Their answer is more mandates, more costs, waste, radical socialism disguised as magnanimity and fairness, and hypocritical meddling.