News that the Senate Democrats were going to allow insurers impose annual or lifetime limits on policy caused quite a stir a few weeks ago. And rightly so. Very few people will ever incur medical bills in the hundreds of thousands or higher. But those that do will be the ones with the worst medical problems--the ones, in other words, who need protection the most.
The White House promised to seek changes, as did liberals on Capitol Hill. It looks like they succeeded. The very first provision of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment would explicitly prohibit insurers from imposing either annual or lifetime limits.
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By the way, one reason this issue got so much attention was that the left raised a huge ruckus over it. The bloggers at Firedoglake and like-minded sites deserve credit here.
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