For at least 1 hour per day, post one thing from the list below of changes to health care to your status. Is this change good or bad? Should this part be repealed or kept?
- Health insurance providers cannot deny any child coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
- Insurance companies can no longer drop someone when he or she becomes ill.
- Young adults can stay on their parents' health insurance plan up to their 27th birthday.
- Health Insurers must now reveal how much money is spent on overhead.
- New health insurance plans must cover checkups and other preventative care without co-pays.
- New measures will be implemented to help eliminate health insurance waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Small businesses (fewer than 50 employees) will get tax credits covering up to 50% of premiums.
- Seniors on Medicare will get a rebate to fill the "donut hole" in their drug coverage.
- Insurers will be required to put more premiums dollars toward actual health care services, not administration, advertising, or profits.
- Insurance premium increases will be have to be reviewed and justified.
- Lifetime caps on the amount of insurance a person can have will be banned.
- A temporary high-risk pool will be set up to cover adults with pre-existing conditions.
In all the debate over Health Care Reform, how often have you seen, simply stated, exactly what's going to change now? Through all the yelling and screaming and name calling; through all the fuss about whether it goes far enough, whether this is a good first step, whether it's socialism, whether it should be repealed; who is telling us exactly what changes? Which of those changes is good? Which ones are bad?
The purpose of this group is to start a dialog on each of the changes that will kick in this year. To increase awareness of what the changes are so that when people offer opinions about them, they do so with full knowledge of what the debate is about.
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