Re: Blagojevich Signs Autism Bill

[Guest guest]

Nice that something good has happened in this state!

Thank you for letting us know, Charlotte.

Ellen

Ellen Garber Bronfeld

egskb@...

Blagojevich Signs Autism Bill

Folks, I just saw this on the web:

Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still conducting state business

even though there have been numerous calls for him to resign and a request

was made to the state Supreme Court to strip him of his powers.

His office released a statement today that said he had signed a bill that

would give insurance coverage to parents of children with autism.

Just hours earlier, Illinois Atty. Gen. Madigan asked the state Supreme

Court to prevent Blagojevich from serving as governor.

He was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges.

Lawmakers also have demanded that Blagojevich be impeached.

He has defiantly ignored the pressure, showing up for work every day since

his arrest.

[Guest guest]

He needs to join Gov. in the same cell!

Sorry but it's ridiculous and I think the guy is truly nuts.

H.

Blagojevich Signs Autism Bill

Folks, I just saw this on the web:

Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still conducting state business

even though there have been numerous calls for him to resign and a request

was made to the state Supreme Court to strip him of his powers.

His office released a statement today that said he had signed a bill that

would give insurance coverage to parents of children with autism.

Just hours earlier, Illinois Atty. Gen. Madigan asked the state Supreme

Court to prevent Blagojevich from serving as governor.

He was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges.

Lawmakers also have demanded that Blagojevich be impeached.

He has defiantly ignored the pressure, showing up for work every day since

his arrest.

[Guest guest]

I wonder if the autism bill is for people with the high spectrum

autisim like I have.

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> Nice that something good has happened in this state!

> Thank you for letting us know, Charlotte.

> Ellen

> Ellen Garber Bronfeld

> egskb@...

> Blagojevich Signs Autism Bill

>

>

> Folks, I just saw this on the web:

>

> Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still conducting state

business

> even though there have been numerous calls for him to resign and

a request

> was made to the state Supreme Court to strip him of his powers.

>

> His office released a statement today that said he had signed a

bill that

> would give insurance coverage to parents of children with autism.

>

> Just hours earlier, Illinois Atty. Gen. Madigan asked the

state Supreme

> Court to prevent Blagojevich from serving as governor.

>

> He was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges.

>

> Lawmakers also have demanded that Blagojevich be impeached.

>

> He has defiantly ignored the pressure, showing up for work every

day since

> his arrest.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have read about companies having employees pay for part of

insurance. Walgreens said it is because the people who are the baby

boom generation using the higher technolgy. I read recently some of

them use them when they do not need to. I was put on spenddown on

Medicaid and I am waiting to start having insurance at my job at

Dominicks. -- In IPADDUnite , Finato

<cmfinato@...> wrote:

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> It wouldn't matter if the individual with autism has Aspergers or

was high functioning.

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> , basically, it is my understanding that insurance companies

can no longer 'discriminate' when it comes to paying for speech, OT,

and physical therapies.  Many of them wouldn't pay if the diagnosis

was autism (or any other similar disability), but these therapies

would have been covered if the patient was involved in an accident or

had another illness.  For parents who work for large companies, this

is a great victory.  For smaller companies, I don't think so.  At my

husband's company, the insurance premiums are based on a health

questionaire that the employee (or in our case ME) fills out.  The

premium for our family will skyrocket because the company has less

than 50 people enrolled in health insurance.  So either the employer

will pay a larger portion, or the employee will.  Right now, his

employer only charges a fixed amount to the employees, so he's been

eating the higher premiums for employees and dependents with

preexisting

> conditions (his previous employer didn't, so our premium was quite

high).   The advantage would be that with it being a group plan,

there is no preexisting clause or exclusions.  The disadvantage would

be the higher cost or even small companies dropping health plans all

together.

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> Finato

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> From: <faith60047@...>

> Subject: Re: Blagojevich Signs Autism Bill

> IPADDUnite

> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 7:58 PM

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> I wonder if the autism bill is for people with the high

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> autisim like I have.

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> > Nice that something good has happened in this state!

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> > Thank you for letting us know, Charlotte.

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> > Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still conducting

state

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> > even though there have been numerous calls for him to resign

and

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> a request

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> > was made to the state Supreme Court to strip him of his powers.

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> > His office released a statement today that said he had signed a

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> bill that

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> > would give insurance coverage to parents of children with

autism.

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> > Just hours earlier, Illinois Atty. Gen. Madigan asked the

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> state Supreme

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> > Court to prevent Blagojevich from serving as governor.

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> > He was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges.

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> > Lawmakers also have demanded that Blagojevich be impeached.

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> > He has defiantly ignored the pressure, showing up for work

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> day since

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