Pat McCrory wants to get rid of health care mandates

Submitted by justing on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 3:52pm

In last night’s debate, I’m sure you noticed Bev held Pat McCrory accountable for his outrageous opposition to requiring insurance companies to cover basic health care needs. Read more here.

On his 2008 NFIB questionnaire, McCrory checked “oppose” to the question “B2. Mandating insurance coverage of certain specific benefits by employers?” McCrory did not elaborate his answer as he did for other questions.

So basically, Pat McCrory doesn’t want mandates to cover some of the most basic health care procedures – siding with insurance companies over the health of North Carolina’s citizens.

These mandates cover procedures like mammograms and prostate screens, and guarantee coverage for emergency care among other things.

Adam Searing over at Progressive Pulse wrote about this specific topic months ago: Bring Back the ‘Drive-Through Delivery'

We can’t let Pat McCrory get his hands on the state’s health care system – he’s too dangerous.

Don't worry

Submitted by James Protzman on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 4:33pm.

Mr. Pat will flip on this like he does on everything else. He'll blame his crappy questionnaire responses on Mike Easley.

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Very Misleading Post

Submitted by SPLib on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 8:11am.

I'm no McCrory fan, but I think this post is misleading.

The question(quoted properly above)involves requiring EMPLOYERS to provide certain specific benefits. If you look at the questionnaire, you'll see he is against requiring employers to provide insurance but is in favor of providing incentives for them to do so.

I have a business and help provide insurance coverage for my employees. The costs are STAGGERING. I don't know what the "certain specific benefits" are, but if they raised the cost of our insurance, I would very likely have to drop coverage completely. Business is in the tank right now, but I might actually still be making money if we didn't have the weight of our insurance bill dragging us down.