Timeline for health care reform

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Timeline for health care reform

By Claes Bell • Bankrate.com

After the tumultuous debate over health care reform ended, many Americans were surprised to find that key parts of the law won't take effect until years into the future.

In fact, many of the sweeping changes -- an end to insurance companies withholding coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, government-regulated insurance marketplaces and the individual requirement to buy coverage -- don't take place until 2014.

Some measures, such as closing the infamous Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" in prescription drug coverage, will come even later.

The law, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sets up a carefully choreographed order for how its different parts will take effect to minimize disruptions to the massive health care industry and the bill's impact on the federal deficit.

This road map will help you understand when the law's many parts will roll out. Read more and follow the changes by year
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1. When does it become illegal to deny claims for ADULTS

on the basis of pre-existing conditions?? I think I remember 2012, but don't see it here.

Thank you for posting this chart.

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2. u forgot the part where the welfare medical complex jacks up prices endlessly nt

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3. This household sure hasn't forgotten it.

And there is absolutely no standard of care.

So if Kaiser wants to tell the 35% of women so afflicted that their uterine fibroids will go away by hot water baths, so be it.

And on and on.