An Overview of the New Senate Health Bill

by mcjoan
Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 07:02:05 PM PST

What's good?

• They banned pre-existing conditions for children starting in 2010.
• That annual cap on benefits that was supposed to have been out of the bill but we found out was slipped back in? The one that the blogs raised hell about? It's out, mostly.

  The very first provision of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment would explicitly prohibit insurers from imposing either annual or lifetime limits.