New healthcare benefits for Cranbury residents start tomorrow

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The first part of US healthcare reform kicks in tomorrow. See how it will help your family.

Children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied health insurance coverage.

Health care plans will allow young people to remain on their parents' insurance policy up until their 26th birthday.

Insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick, and they will be banned from implementing lifetime caps on coverage.

Adults who are uninsured because of pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable insurance through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool.

Small businesses that choose to offer coverage will begin to receive tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums to help make employee coverage more affordable.

New private plans will be required to provide free preventive care: no co-payments and no deductibles for preventive services.

Early retirees will have help in the form of a temporary re-insurance program to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees age 55-64.

Seniors who fall into the Medicare Part D 'donut hole' coverage gap will receive a $250 rebate to help pay for prescription drugs.

[Guest]

Thank you for this Congressman Rush Holt because other then our country having absolutely no way to pay for this it sounds great.

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"Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:


Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care.


As written, Obamacare covers elective abortions, contrary to Obama's promise that it wouldn't.


Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like. By Obama's estimates, as many as 69 percent of employees, 80 percent of small businesses, and 64 percent of large businesses will be forced to change coverage, probably to more expensive plans.


Obamacare will increase insurance premiums -- in some places, it already has. Insurers, suddenly forced to cover clients' children until age 26, have little choice but to raise premiums, and they attribute to Obamacare's mandates a 1 to 9 percent increase. Obama's only method of preventing massive rate increases so far has been to threaten insurers.


Obamacare will force seasonal employers -- especially the ski and amusement park industries -- to pay huge fines, cut hours, or lay off employees.


Obamacare forces states to guarantee not only payment but also treatment for indigent Medicaid patients. With many doctors now refusing to take Medicaid (because they lose money doing so), cash-strapped states could be sued and ordered to increase reimbursement rates beyond their means.


Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business.


Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion

[Guest]

Thank you Rush Holt

I posted this a few days ago but I think I should post again. My family is already benefiting from healthcare reform. My college daughter is now covered by my family health insurance. And she has much better benefits than when she (actually me and my husband) had to buy it herself. My husband’s folks also always got caught in the doughnut hole on their prescriptions and already they are getting help.

But there are benefits (I pray that my family will never need them) that I could never put any price on. Now kids with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage.

You jokers who opposed this reform would be against Medicare, SSI for our disabled children and adults, Medicaid – and on it goes.

My next door neighbor’s son who has a severe psychiatric illness has had her costs go way down because of the new Parity bill that was passed. Before this new legislation, her son actually had services entirely cut off midway through the year – because of restriction on benefits for mentally ill people. Enough of the fear mongering and dire predictions. It’s already helping the folks

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Funny how the wingnuts brag about this being the greatest, the wealthiest, the most magnificent nation that was EVER created.
But, look how they squeal like baby piglets when we try to have anything remotely resembling what every other wealth, industrialized country enjoys.
"Thats Socialism"
"Thats Un-American"
"Thats Socialized medicine"
Blah, blah, blah...ad nauseum
Well, if the Scandinavians can do it, and if the Swiss can do it, and even the British can do it.....as well as many other nations. Why can't we do it as well?
Sometimes, the profit motive works against itself as it seeks to gain money by denying customers their services. We have a great healthcare system, but, a lot of people have no access to it. Or if they do, they pay WAY more than other nations do for the same thing.
So, ignore the right-wing whackadoodles. They will try to bamboozle you with rhetoric and debate club shananigans.
Use your head and your common sense and listen to those who speak honestly, rather than those who just want you to abrogate your rights so that these reprobates can make a buck off of your skin!

[publius]

Also.......
Funny how we can come up with billions of dollars to depose a tinpot dictator in Iraq, but, have not a cent to invest in our people. Especially, our children. Shame on all of you right-wing nuts who only care about yourselves. You talk about Christian values, and family values and other meaningless rubbish, but you lie through your minty fresh bleached & capped perfect teeth!!!

[Publius Clodius Pulcher]

Of course we should all not even consider the constitution. Who cares if the governments involvement in health care directly contradicts it? Mandating that someone has to have health care and that the internal revenue service can come after you if you don't have the coverage the government says you must have sound completely constitutional to me.

Sarcasm intended

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