Over half of current individual plans aren’t up to the 2014 health care reform standards

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Most of the medical coverage being sold to individuals are falling short of the “essential benefits” requirements. Over half of all Americans who have purchased their coverage through the individual insurance marketplace currently have policies that are not up to the health care reform essential benefits standards. Equally, the majority of employer group medical plans have less cost sharing and more comprehensive coverage. The issue at hand is that although the Affordable Care Act, which will go into full effect in January 2014 as long as it is not overturned…

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Study finds that health care reform will bring more insurance coverage to many, but at higher cost

Last year’s health care overhaul continues to be the most controversial legislations passed championed by the current administration. Confronted with concerns that the nations health care system was unbalanced and on the verge of cataclysmic collapse, President Obama and his compatriots sought to make changes that would improve the system overall. Though the health care reform aims to increase the number of people that have access to insurance coverage, how such a feat will be accomplished remains something of a mystery. Last year, soon after the notorious Affordable Care Act…

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