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Health reform provisionsStarting this year
Adults with pre-existing conditions will be able to join a temporary high-risk pool for subsidized coverage.
Young adults will be able to stay on their parents' insurance plans until the age of 26.
Insurers can't refuse to cover children with pre-existing conditions.
Many seniors will get a $250 rebate to cover the "doughnut hole" in drug coverage.
Medicare recipients won't have a co-pay for preventative care.
A 10 percent tax will be added to indoor tanning salons.
Starting in 2011
Cost of brand-name drugs for Medicare recipients will be cut 50 percent.
Starting in 2013
People making more than $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 will see a 0.9 percent Medicare payroll tax increase.
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