Page 11 - Lifetime Limit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Might actually be to the benefit of the consumer but it's not going to be possible. you get to stay on a policy until the age of 19, that you get to stay on your parents' policy until 26, that there's no lifetime limit, you can't be dropped -- you can't be dropped. how about a prevention copay? what is prevention? nobody has defined that. i mean, that's not going to be something they can really implement now. martha: i'm wondering how this begins to play out. all the states have lawsuits about whether or not the whole thing is constitutional. does it also come from the other end, a person sign...

You're covered, but then when you get sick they decide to drop the insurance. right when you need it. or, when you get sick they try to find what they consider to be a pre-existing condition that would justify them cancelling your policy. or there's some fine print in there where you got a lifetime limit and it turns out you thought you had coverage but it turns out the coverage only goes up to a certain point and then afterward you have to start paying out of pocket, and even after paying all those premiums you're now in the hole for $100,000 or $200,000 and you're going bankrupt or losing yo...

Final form will actually be. but it's worth talking about the various layers to this bill to some extent and how these layers will go into effect because if you're the average consumer, you're thinking how might this affect me and when will that happen. let me talk about some of the immediate changes first. some of the things that will happen sooner rather than later is that there will no longer be any annual caps. let's say you have some sort of health care problem but the insurance company says we have a yearly limit in terms of how much we will pay or a lifetime limit. those sorts of caps w...

Let's say you have a health care problem. the insurance problem says we have a yearly limit or a lifetime limit. those sorts of caps will go away. also this pre-existing condition, which we've been talking about for more than a year. people will not be able to be discriminated against based on pre-existing condition when's they go to buy health care insurance. the way they are going to do that interestingly is to create high-risk pools around the country and subsidize the high-risk pool to pay for the insurance. young adults covered to the age of 26. again, pretty obvious there. really the kid...

>> and that poll did something else very interesting. they asked people who said they were opposed to obama care why. and 14% were opposed oh, because it wasn't liberal enough. you add those to the folks who favor the law, you actually have a majority in favor of the law. look, i think the american people are pretty level-headed about this. the press isn't. and what ted cruz said when he conducted that phony filibuster, that once obama care takes effect, people get all these benefits, preexisting conditions are covered, their kids aren't thrown off, they don't have insurance company can callin...