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    INSURANCE MARKET REFORMS: Major consumer safeguards take effect in 2014. Insurers prohibited from denying coverage to people with medical problems or charging them more. Higher premiums for women would be banned. Starting this year, insurers would be forbidden from placing lifetime dollar limits on policies, and from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing medical problems. Parents would be able to keep older kids on their policies up to age 26. A new high-risk pool would offer coverage to uninsured people with medical problems until 2014, when the coverage expansion goes into high gear.

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    • Anyone disagree with any of that?
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    • sounds good... now who's paying for those who can't afford it? do I have to have insurance or else pay a fine?PonyBoy
    • Yup, basically, that's the bad part - the mandate (although there are plenty of loopholes and it doesn't apply to anyone making under a certain amount)ukit
    • making under a certain amount).ukit
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