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Rick Haberman

Published: October 6, 2009

President Obama's plan will simply make insurance work better by holding the insurance industry accountable.

Under the president's plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to:

•Deny coverage based on a pre-existing condition.

•Drop or weaken coverage when you get sick.

•Place cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.

Our system works better for insurance companies than it does for the American people.

Tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance, and are living one accident or illness away from total financial disaster.

Hundreds of millions of Americans who have insurance live with the constant worry that they might lose it if they move, change jobs or lose their jobs or that their insurance company might cancel their plan when they get sick.

An unprecedented coalition of doctors and nurses and a huge percentage of the American people are behind President Obama's plan. It's time to finish the job and pass real reform.

Rick Haberman Avon Park

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