...about the coming Republican takeover of Congress and its plans to repeal health care reform, read Jeffrey Kluger's piece in Time, "Barbarians at the Gate: The GOP's Health Reform Plan."Since President Obama and the Democrats don't seem to want to run on this truly historic achievement, it might be left to people like Kluger to remind us of its importance:
Just last week, the U.S. Census announced that the number of uninsured Americans crossed the 50 million threshold for the first time — many of those people having lost their jobs in the economic meltdown. The new law, whose requirements are being phased in over several years, is designed to prevent the loss of a job from equaling the loss of insurance. It is also designed to prevent people from being dropped from coverage because they get sick and being denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition, and it eliminates lifetime caps. Additionally, it allows kids to stay on their parents' policies until they're 26 — especially important when young people are being hit hard by double-digit unemployment.
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