The Top Ten Immediate Benefits From HRC

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.

via huffingtonpost.com

I had a Right Wing friend on Facebook write "Traitors". Really? Health care for kids? How far off course can you get.

This is the first step. No one thought this would pass. Any pessimist can call himself a prophet. Well, you were wrong. "Hope" is coming back to America. Go Obama!

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