Three Months Later --This is an update of a post here on September 26, 2007.
The Florida Legislature and the Florida Governor, Charlie Crist, will soon be hearing from Mr. Donald Trump and a group based in New York that advocates Insurance Coverage for Autistic Children called Autism Speaks. Both want Florida to mandate that Insurance Policies remove an Exclusion that is directed to Autism treatments, which can cost the children's parents upwards of $50,000.00 a year without Insurance Coverage.
It is reported by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com that 17 States mandate some form or another of Insurance Coverage for autism treatment. Mr. Trump, the Billionaire and Bankruptcy survivor who will deserve praise for this good deed if as now appears it will bring him no personal gain, and Autism Speaks, plan to lobby officials in three high-profile States with large numbers of autistic children and their parents -- Florida, California and Michigan -- in an effort to provide Coverage for such autism treatments as speech therapy.
It is also reported that unnamed Insurance Companies oppose mandated Insurance Coverage for autism treatments on the ground that all of their Policyholders would pay higher Premiums if that happened.
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