Comments on: Bibi and Hillary Go To Washington: a Report from the AIPAC Policy Conference in D.C. http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2010/03/21/bibi-and-hillary-go-to-washington-a-report-from-the-aipac-policy-conference-in-dc/ Journalist - Middle East Commentator Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Erik B. http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2010/03/21/bibi-and-hillary-go-to-washington-a-report-from-the-aipac-policy-conference-in-dc/#comment-23540 Erik B. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:36:04 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2010/03/21/bibi-and-hillary-go-to-washington-a-report-from-the-aipac-policy-conference-in-dc/#comment-23540 <i>Certain elements of health care reform, such as universal coverage for serious illness and insurance reform, needed to happen...</i> You called another one right Robinson. Although tardy by decades, the US now joins other industrialized countries which offer health care to it's citizens: The new health care bill will among other actions: <i>The bill will expand coverage to 32 million Americans... ... Starting this year, insurance companies would be barred from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions. Effective when the bill is signed, they will also be prevented from placing lifetime caps on policies, or from dropping a patient's insurance if he or she gets sick. ... Also this year, insurance companies would be required to cover preventive services, which includes such medical procedures as vaccines that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2014, insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage to adult patients with pre-existing medical conditions or charging them more because of these conditions. In a move that has made many college students and young Americans happy, the health care bill allows parents to keep their children on their insurance plan until the age of 26. That provision takes effect this year. </i> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/health-care-bill-obama-sign-bill-tuesday/story?id=10169801 With this bill, the United States now joins countries such as Israel and Iceland which offer health care to their citizens rather than with countries like Yemen and Niger which do not. Certain elements of health care reform, such as universal coverage for serious illness and insurance reform, needed to happen…

You called another one right Robinson.

Although tardy by decades, the US now joins other industrialized countries which offer health care to it’s citizens:

The new health care bill will among other actions:

The bill will expand coverage to 32 million Americans…

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Starting this year, insurance companies would be barred from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions. Effective when the bill is signed, they will also be prevented from placing lifetime caps on policies, or from dropping a patient’s insurance if he or she gets sick.

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Also this year, insurance companies would be required to cover preventive services, which includes such medical procedures as vaccines that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

By 2014, insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage to adult patients with pre-existing medical conditions or charging them more because of these conditions.

In a move that has made many college students and young Americans happy, the health care bill allows parents to keep their children on their insurance plan until the age of 26. That provision takes effect this year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/health-care-bill-obama-sign-bill-tuesday/story?id=10169801

With this bill, the United States now joins countries such as Israel and Iceland which offer health care to their citizens rather than with countries like Yemen and Niger which do not.

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