The United States House of Representatives is back in full swing and with that renewed and new debates are brewing. One such debate that the House will soon vote on is a bill to repeal the health care reform, which was signed into law last March by President Obama.
The repeal of the Affordable Care Act has many asking what it would mean for children and their rights to access healthcare. The key impacts that children will feel if the bill is revoked include;
1) Allowing insurers to go back to denying coverage for children with pre-existing conditions. Parents of children with cancer, children born with a birth defect, children with asthma, special-needs kids, among many others, would once again be unable to get coverage.
2) Allowing insurers to once again place lifetime limits on coverage, so that a child fortunate enough to beat leukemia when she is 8 could be uninsurable if faced with another serious illness later.
3) Eliminating guaranteed coverage of dependent children through age 26 on their parents’ policy, leaving thousands of young adults uninsured.
4) Allowing insurers to deny coverage of vision care and eyeglasses for children.
*Every Child Matters
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