>>Starting next year, private insurers could no longer deny anyone coverage based on preexisting conditions, place lifetime limits on coverage or abandon people when they become ill
>>Insurers would be required to disclose and justify proposed premium increases to regulators, and could not remove adult children younger than 27 from their parents' family policies.
>>the House package would immediately offer discounts on prescription drugs and reduce a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage, closing it entirely by 2019.
>>Uninsured people who cannot get coverage could join temporary high-risk insurance pools, and unemployed workers would be permitted to keep their COBRA benefits until the public plan and insurance exchanges started in 2013.
>>Tax-free benefits for domestic partners just like health benefits provided to the family of an employee married to a person of the opposite sex.
>>Provide grants to states for home visitation programs in which nurses and social workers counsel pregnant women and new mothers in low-income families.
>>Nutrition labeling requirements for snack food sold in vending machines and many restaurants.
>>Required coverage for preventative care
>>Starting next year, private insurers could no longer deny anyone coverage based on preexisting conditions, place lifetime limits on coverage or abandon people when they become ill
>>Insurers would be required to disclose and justify proposed premium increases to regulators, and could not remove adult children younger than 27 from their parents' family policies.
>>the House package would immediately offer discounts on prescription drugs and reduce a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage, closing it entirely by 2019.
>>Uninsured people who cannot get coverage could join temporary high-risk insurance pools, and unemployed workers would be permitted to keep their COBRA benefits until the public plan and insurance exchanges started in 2013.
>>Tax-free benefits for domestic partners just like health benefits provided to the family of an employee married to a person of the opposite sex.
>>Provide grants to states for home visitation programs in which nurses and social workers counsel pregnant women and new mothers in low-income families.
>>Nutrition labeling requirements for snack food sold in vending machines and many restaurants.