State Senate approves 'Scarlet Letter' bill for Obamacare clients
State Senate approves Scarlet Letter bill for Obamacare clients - Houston Chronicle
The Texas Senate on Tuesday evening approved a bill that would require insurance identification cards purchased through the health insurance marketplace to bear the letters QHP, for qualified health plan.
The bill now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it, and would take effect on Sept. 1.
The only accurate way to determine a patient's eligibility, he said, is to call the insurance company.
"An excess of 99 percent of all physician front offices do this for all patients every day," Janda said. "This is not adding a burden."
"I think that this is a sad day for the medical profession to use the Legislature to create a class on an insurance cards that is not required by the federal government or anyone else but is put in place because of the narrowness and some would say the greed of people in the medical profession," he said. "It really doesn't speak well of Texas."
Notice, from the Houston Chronicle, hardly a liberal paper.
The uninsured has dropped by a third in Texas. Republicans are hoping to "shame them away" from getting heath care. In other words, "Let Them Die".
Hey, it's Texas.
