Vos leaves out Maternity, Newborn Care, and Prescription Drug coverage from Preexisting Condition Health bill.

Assembly Republicans unveiled late additions Tuesday to a bill protecting insurance coverage for some with pre-existing health conditions if the federal healthcare law is repealed or struck down in court … the bill will not include Evers’ other request: that insurers be required to cover a list of essential health benefits such as maternity or newborn care or prescription drugs. 

Vos: (Those benefits) “are not part of what we talked about. Unfortunately if people want to try to throw other things into the mix to stop the deal from happening, I think that’s the cynicism that people do not want in politics.”

Changes to the Assembly GOP bill would add to state law … prohibitions on insurers imposing lifetime or annual limits on coverage for people with serious health conditions. That’s one of two key provisions Evers said the measure needs to include for him to support it.

But our complicated Rube Goldberg health insurance nightmare prevents the government from helping…

…people on private self-insured health plans, which a UW-Madison expert estimates is about 1.5 million Wisconsinites. That’s because such plans cannot be regulated under state law. “For people that are self-insured, the state of Wisconsin has no control over them whatsoever,” Vos said.

By at least one measure … about 2.4 million Wisconsinites (have a preexisting condition).

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