I am very excited about health care reform. The tax credits that small businesses will receive will lessen a burden that they carry. I think it is very possible that the tax savings may be used toward pay increases for employee's.
I am very impressed with the ending of rescissions. It is very nice to know that people can no longer be dropped from their insurance when they become ill. It is unethical to allow someone to pay insurance premiums and participate in an insurance plan, onlu to be dropped when they need it most.
The fact that pre-existing conditions will no longer be a factor in keeping health insurance is very reassuring. I have a son that was 25 weeks at birth and I have been on a few jobs that have rejected the care of my son due to pre-existing conditions. In particular, the care for his groeth hormone therapy. I have spent countless hours hung up in appeals trying to keep him on his somatropin. (growth hormone medication). When my son developed a phobia to the needle injections, my challenges were at an all time high. A third party had to intervene to get the care for my son because the insurance advised me that I exhausted all appeal rights.
I would like everyone to consider the good this will do for children with pre-exisitng conditons.I wouldn't want another family to go without care for the child because the insurance plan rejected a pre-existing plan. I wouldn't want another family to feel as deperate or hopeless as I felt.