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Insurance plan has to provide. maternity care is covered. the preventive services are covered. mental health services are covered. the insurance policy you buy doesnt have an annual limit or a lifetime limit. that there are out of pock-of-p expense pences capped. >> in an interview on "meet the press" sunday, florida blue, which sent letters to about 300,000 people in the state saying their current plans would be terminated argued that doesnt mean theyre canceling insurance. the white house also...

Surgeries and the fear through all of that of possibly losing health insurance coverage. during our first three weeks of hospitalization, mason wracked up 1.1 million dollars in medical bills. i worried about butting up against the 5 million lifetime limit on masons health insurance approximately see. we had a good policy with the good company. we paid our premiums on time and in full. but may json wasnt getting out the hospital any time soon and there were months of rehab ahead. my then 13-year...

All of that of possibly losing health insurance coverage. during our first three weeks of hospitalization, mason wracked up 1.1 million dollars in medical bills. i worried about butting up against the 5 million lifetime limit on masons health insurance approximately see. we had a good policy with the good company. we paid our premiums on time and in full. but mason wasnt getting out of the hospital any time soon and there were months of rehab ahead. my then 13-year-old son would have reached his...

How much you can spend per year, you want no lifetime limit, you want affordability. you want no punishment for preexisting conditions. they have done a bad job messaging it. martha: what do you think about the paul bunyon ad. they are spending $9 million in minnesota to get $1.3 million people signed up. i think if you were running a business your return on invest -- on that would be sketchy. >> we are talking about taking people off of their employer based insurance and putting them onto the o...

And with the technology that medicine is coming up with and being able 20 years ago, zoe wouldnt be alive today. but advancements, you know, theyre able to reconstrict half of her heart to work for her entire body so were seeing a lot of kids survive that would never have survived before. >> caleb, what would it mean to you as a family financially if mitt romney was elected, if the republican congress was in place and if they repealed the affordable care act, lifetime limits immediately came bac...

Limits immediately came back into force through insurance companies. if you went through that lifetime limit, have you even begun to contemplate what your options might be, what you would have to do? >> weve obviously thought about it and its like stacy said at the convention the other night, its always in the back of our mind. and sometimes in the front of our mind. and you know, we talk about it and it would be devastating. frankly once we get to her third surgery, we would hit the cap and the...

Was pick out just one component of the bill and a very easily understood one, which is lifetime limits of payouts of basically help from an insurance policy and how easily those lifetime limits can be hit. in this case, imagine you have a baby with congenital heart disease who needs three different open heart surgery operations over a period of years. youre going to hit the lifetime limit, the actual lifetime limit on that childs health insurance by the time shes six or seven years old. do you h...

In any survey that says we need to change all of the things that the republicans are trying to redo. >> let me bring lawrence odonnell and chris matthews into this from charlotte. in terms of talking about this, this policy shift, is this an important part of the message tonight? is this the policy stuff theyre going to move on from? or is this going to be a continuing campaign thing? >> theyre going to stay on health care, because they have to, thats the way the republicans are coming at them. ...

Kindergarten class. it is the moss simplistic stuff you can imagine. i mean, michelle obama was operating 15 grades higher than ann romney ever has in any of her public comments ever. there just isnt any reasonable comparison between these two. ann romney is absolutely vacant on the matter of governance, any sort of policy difference. she hasnt said a single sentence to women about government that would in any way be relevant to why they might vote. whereas mrs. obama last night was talking abou...

Year, september 2010, young people were allowed to stay on their parents insurance plans until age 26. that was also brand new starting two years ago in september. in september of 2010, it also became illegal for your insurance company to drop you to cancel your coverage because you have the audacity to try to use your insurance, because you filed a claim. starting that same month, your insurance company stopped being able to put a lifetime limit on you in terms of what they would spend on you f...