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Key Health Care Laws begin this Thursday, Insurance companies abandon children
Some of the new health care laws that are in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which was signed into Law on March 23, 2010, will go into effect this Thursday, September 23, 2010.
Some of the key components that start this Thursday include:
- Young people will be able to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans up to age 26
- Insurance companies can no longer drop people from coverage when they become sick and need it most
- No discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions
Four of the bigger insurance companies have decided that insuring children with pre-existing problems is not profitable, so they have chosen to drop children from their insurance rolls ahead of the Laws that will take affect on Thursday. Insurers including WellPoint and CoventryOne have announced in recent days that they're dropping children's coverage in California, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri, according to Health Care for America Now(HCAN).
