Wave of health reform provisions coming next month

[SecularMotion]

Health care reform hits another milestone next month, with new provisions that include a coverage expansion for young adults and restrictions on an insurer's ability to impose annual coverage limits or to reject children with pre-existing medical conditions.

Insurance coverage that starts on or after Sept. 23 will have to comply with these changes and others that were put in place when President Barack Obama signed the health overhaul into law March 23. For most people, the changes won't affect their plans until coverage renews in the weeks or months that follow. Here are the highlights:

_ Adult children up to age 26 will be able to receive dependent coverage with all individual and group policies.

_ Lifetime limits on the dollar value of insurance coverage will be prohibited. This refers to how much your insurance coverage pays out to cover claims.

_ Restrictions will be placed on annual limits for coverage, a practice that will prohibited in 2014.

_ Insurers will be prohibited from rescinding or canceling coverage except in cases where the customer commits fraud.

_ Insurers will not be able to exclude children from coverage because of a pre-existing condition, but they can require parents to sign up kids only during a fixed annual enrollment period to ensure they don't wait until a child gets sick to buy coverage.

_ Insurers will be required to provide preventive care like immunizations or mammograms without charging co-pays or other forms of cost sharing. Some may not have to comply with this element if their coverage existed March 23 and has not changed substantially.

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[daleanime]

1. As long as health care in this country remain profit based....

these kinds of changes are like painting the walls in a home without a roof.:banghead:

[damntexdem]

2. Just in time, my son will still be covered by my health insurance.

That alone makes me thankful for the law.

[canoeist52]

3. Anyone know it thes rules apply only to new policies?

or are existing policies included. I do know that your adult kids are offered "fake insurance" through their work, your company doesn't have to offer kids' insurance to you.

[SecularMotion]

4. Kick

:kick: