We were at, "What's really in the health care reform bill aside from Government Takeover Of Our Lives Forcing Us To Be Reviewed By Death Panels And Needing Guns To Defend Ourselves From The Speaker Of The House"
My personal favorite is that I will be able to purchase the same excellent insurance coverage my Congressman and Senator now enjoy. And when I buy that policy they will not be able to tell me that, if I fall and break a hip thirty years from now, it won't be covered because I had a pre-existing condition (arthritis in a thumb) from when I was in my 20's.
PS, see Obama interviewed on Faux News.
From the House Dem blog:
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As soon as health care passes, the American people will see immediate benefits. The legislation will:
* Prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in all new plans;
* Provide immediate access to insurance for uninsured Americans who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition through a temporary high-risk pool;
* Prohibit dropping people from coverage when they get sick in all individual plans;
* Lower seniors prescription drug prices by beginning to close the donut hole;
* Offer tax credits to small businesses to purchase coverage;
* Eliminate lifetime limits and restrictive annual limits on benefits in all plans;
* Require plans to cover an enrollee's dependent children until age 26;
* Require new plans to cover preventive services and immunizations without cost-sharing;
* Ensure consumers have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to appeal new insurance plan decisions;
* Require premium rebates to enrollees from insurers with high administrative expenditures and require public disclosure of the percent of premiums applied to overhead costs.
By enacting these provisions right away, and others over time, we will be able to lower costs for everyone and give all Americans and small businesses more control over their health care choices.
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