Tag: health care reforms

Health insurance of parents may not cover their children who are pregnant

H. Cutner
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There are exceptions to the healthcare reforms that allow children to remain covered until they turn 26. The overhaul to the healthcare laws have been designed to widen the number of young adults who have health insurance by allowing them to stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26 years old. However, there is no guarantee that pregnancy will be covered. Though it is in no way uncommon for young women aged 26 or younger to become pregnant, there are some health insurance plans that will not provide this…

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Health insurance exchanges require massive planning by U.S. Officials

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They are currently preparing for this enormous task which is rapidly approaching. Officials from the Obama Administration are already preparing for the tremendous task of operating the new health insurance exchanges in approximately half of the states in the country. Those states are the ones where local officials are unable or unwilling to operate it themselves. The health insurance exchanges are the very heart of the health care reforms that were put into place by President Obama. Running them will be an enormous task that had not been expected by…

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Health care reforms improve benefits for women

Julie Campbell
Womens Health Insurance

President Obama’s law adds 8 preventive medical benefits for female patients. As of Wednesday, the next element of the health care reforms went into place, adding coverage for eight more free preventive medical benefits for women. These include many tests and services that had previously been paid for out of pocket. Among the benefits that are now included due to the health care reforms are: routine breast and pelvic exam checkups, screenings for sexually transmitted infections and domestic violence, and gestational diabetes, prenatal care, breast feeding supplies, pap tests, and…

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Health care reforms get a boost in popularity from insurance rebates

Julie Campbell
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The checks are being received and people are seeing the positive side of Obamacare. Now that some of the cost saving elements of the Affordable Care Act have been put into place and are being received by individuals, families, and small businesses, the popularity of the health care reforms is rapidly climbing. Many people are starting to feel that insurers are now being forced into fairness. The reason is that part of the health care reforms require insurance companies to spend 80 percent of the money they collect in premiums…

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Health care reform will take $109 billon out of the national deficit

Marc
Allyson Schwartz

CBO says that the Affordable Care Act will bring significant reductions. A statement has been released by U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz regarding the financial impact of the health care reforms based on the report issued by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In it, Schwartz explained that $109 billion will be saved from the national budget by the system changes. In her statement, she explained that “Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reaffirmed the critical importance of the Affordable Care Act as a means of containing the growth in health…

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