Monday, March 22, 2010

10 IMMEDIATE BENEFITS TO HEALTH CARE REFORM

I know, I know. People are against it and people are for it. I see points on both sides, but in order to accentuate the positive, here are a list of immediate BENEFITS to the health care reform bill:

*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

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