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Which Part of HealthCare Reform Don't You Like?

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When engaged in conversation (debate) with someone who says the Health Care Reform Act (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) of 2010 should be repealed, ask them to answer the following questions:

Are you in favor of repealing the section of the Affordable Care Act (section number of the law is in parenthesis) that:

1. Prohibits insurance companies from imposing lifetime or annual benefit caps on health insurance consumers? (1001)

2. Prohibits health insurance companies from canceling coverage because on an error or misstatement on a coverage application not connected to fraud? (1001)

3. Requires health insurance companies to provide preventative services such as annual physicals without co-pays or deductibles? (1001)

4. Permits parents to keep their adult children up to age 26 on their health insurance

policies? (1001)

5. Prohibits health insurers from refusing to cover individuals due to pre-existing medical conditions? (1201)

6. Shrinks and eliminates the Medicare drug plan coverage gap -- called the

"doughnut hole" ? (3301)

7. Requires health insurers to provide a clear summary of benefits and coverage not to

exceed four pages? (1001)

8. Provides tax credits to income eligible individuals to be able to afford to purchase health insurance? (1401)

9. Protects income eligible individuals from excessive cost sharing? (1402)

10. Establishes a new tax credit for eligible small businesses to provide health insurance for their workers? (1402)

11. Allows low income persons without health insurance to enroll in their state Medicaid

program? (2001)

12. Sets up a program that allows Centers for Medicare Services to share savings with

doctors and hospitals who take responsibility to improve quality and care to Medicare

enrollees? (3022)

13. Directs Medicare to cover, without cost sharing, annual wellness visits and prevention

services for all enrollees, and waiving co-insurance for most preventative services? (4103/4)

14. Requires all employers with 50 or more employees to provide break time and a place for breast-feeding mothers to express milk? (4207)

15. Establishes a new grant program to support school based health clinics to provide preventative and primary care services to medically underserved children and families? (4108)

16. Creates a national fund to expand the number of community health centers and to increase funding for existing centers? (10503)

17. Creates a national education campaign for young women and health professionals about breast cancer and it's risk factors? (10413)

18. Creates a national initiative to prevent and eliminate elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation? (6703)

19. More than doubles funding for the National Health Service Corps which pays medical education debt for new physicians who practice in underserved areas for at least two years? (10503)