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Here is an e-mail I received from Consumers Union- and something important for folks to know....
The worst thing most of us can imagine is getting diagnosed with a serious illness. The next worst thing – discovering your insurance company won’t pay for your medical care after a certain point.
Starting next month, the new health reform law prohibits insurance companies from limiting the amount of care you get in your lifetime. That means at a time when you need help the most, the medical care you were promised will be there.
We’d like to hear from anyone who is reaching their lifetime health insurance limit or has already hit it. Your experiences will help us do a better job at making sure the health reform law is working for those who need it most.
Over 100 million Americans have health insurance right now that puts some form of a lifetime limit on their care. Health reform eliminates those lifetime caps on any policy issued or renewed after Sept. 23. And over the next four years, limits on the amount of care you can receive each year will be phased out until they, too, are eliminated.
These caps make us vulnerable at the worst time. People are losing their benefits while battling cancer or needing a costly transplant. We’ve all seen the flyers, fundraisers and other methods used by families trying to cover the cost of needed care.