Insurance Coverage for......All?

by Kristina Chew · 2009-06-16 14:19:00 UTC
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Looks like legislation in New Jersey to cover "autism therapy" for "treatment costing up to $36,000 a year for New Jerseyans with autism and other developmental disabilities" may be passed. As reported in yesterday's Star-Ledger, the bill passed the NJ Assembly a month ago and cleared the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee yesterday. It will now move to the full Senate.

The NJ bill provides coverage for individuals up to the age of 21 so my son would certainly qualify. I know it's a time of economic crisis and we should be content, glad, thrilled to get this and certainly there's a couple of ways that such coverage might help Charlie.

But Charlie's going to be needing therapies and services now at the age of 12. He's going to need something, I would warrant, when he's 21 and throughout most of his life. Maybe not speech therapy or ABA anymore, but something. Yeah yeah, maybe that'll make the insurance companies quaver but autism isn't only for children and support is needed throughout an individual's life.

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Kristina Chew
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