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December 11, 2009

Senate Bill Permits Insurers to Limit Medical Coverage
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Patient rights advocates are criticizing a loophole in the Senate
healthcare reform bill that would allow insurance companies to limit
healthcare benefits even for seriously ill patients. An earlier version
of the bill had banned the annual caps, but it’s since reappeared as the
bill moves through committee. On Thursday, single-payer activists
protested at Senate offices nationwide against the Democrats’ latest
agreement to abandon the public option. Nine people were arrested at the
New York offices of Democratic Senator Charles Schumer.



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