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Health Care Costs In America Versus The Rest Of The World
While America has the most expensive health care system in the world, Americans do not live longer or have better health than people in most other developed countries. The Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
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Low Or No Cost Health Care Options For People With Low Incomes
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), federal and state governments are setting up and running health insurance marketplaces for individuals, families and businesses to purchase quality health...
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The New Patient’s Bill Of Rights
There have been several attempts by Congress over the years to pass a formal Patient’s Bill of Rights. The intention has generally been to protect many basic rights of Americans when it comes to...
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Guaranteed Coverage For People With Pre-Existing Health Conditions
Starting in 2014, health insurance companies can no longer deny or limit coverage for individuals with pre-existing health conditions including disability. This is true even if individuals have been...
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Free Preventative Services Insurance Providers Are Required To Offer
The Affordable Care Act includes many preventive health care services at no cost to the patient. Every American with health insurance, including Medicare, is now eligible for many preventive services...
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Who Are The Uninsured In America?
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit, private operating foundation that focuses on the major health care issues and the United State’s role in global health policy, issued a report in October...
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Where Are The Uninsured In America?
In 2011, 48.6 Americans went uninsured; 47.9 million of those uninsured Americans were under the age of 65. [1, 2] Where do these uninsured Americans live? While a higher rate of uninsured are...
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Who In Illinois Is Eligible Under Affordable Care Act?
CHICAGO (CBS) — Next month begins a new chapter in health care that many Americans are still trying to figure out. On Oct. 1, open enrollment begins for what some call Obamacare. It’s really called the...
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The New Health Care Law: You Ask, We Answer
(CBS) — You have six months to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act if you don’t get coverage from an employer. That’s plenty of time to shop around and compare plan. But right now it’s...
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Rainbow Push To Help Explain Health Care Law
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition will have experts available to enroll the public and to explain any questions regarding The Affordable Care Act.
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Obama Promises ACA Website Fix
(CBS) – President Obama vowed Monday to fix the glitches with the Affordable Care Act website, and that promise can’t come any sooner for frustrated people in the Chicago area who want to sign up for...
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Beware Insurance Pitches Disguised As Obamacare
(CBS) – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she is looking into what appears to be a bogus campaign to sign people up for federal health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Don’t be...
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Affordable Care Act Could Force You To Change Insurance
(CBS) — It’s an unexpected side effect of the Affordable Care Act. Like it or not, you could lose your current health insurance plan. CBS News confirmed more than two million people across the country...
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Social Security In 1935: How Today’s Health Law Should Evolve
“If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” – President Barack Obama speaking before the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009 The president’s...
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5 Ways To Buy Health Insurance Without A Government Exchange
The heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Insurance Marketplace, opened on October 1, and offers Americans a new way to purchase health insurance, but it is not the only way. Many...
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Food Stamp Outreach Boosting Illinois Medicaid Expansion
CHICAGO (AP) — Although only a few hundred middle-class Illinois residents were able to sign up for health insurance last month on the crippled federal HealthCare.gov website, the poor appear to be...
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Enforcing The Health Law Mandate: What The IRS Can & Can’t Do
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is perhaps the most controversial piece of the health reform legislation. The law requires nearly all Americans maintain “minimal essential” health...
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Romneycare Vs. Obamacare: Key Similarities & Differences
The less-than-smooth launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, coupled with the recent revelations that many who purchase health insurance on the individual market are receiving cancellation...
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Three Glaring Changes Needed To Fix Obamacare
Written by Gillian Burdett via Examiner.com At a November 14 White house press briefing, President Obama acknowledged that “the roll out has been rough so far.” He was referring to the October 1 launch...
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Obamacare Key Dates In 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 2010. Over the ensuing three years, various provisions of the law have gone into effect. The newly created health insurance marketplaces opened...
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Election Watch: Will Obamacare Hurt Democrats In 2014?
A botched website launch, a you-can-keep-your-plan promise that didn’t quite pan out, fears of increasing premiums, decreasing choices, job cuts, death panels – these Obamacare memes make it hard to be...
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Obamacare Enrollment In Illinois: 7,000 So Far
Slightly more than 67,000 Illinois residents completed applications for health insurance through the newly created health insurance marketplace in October and November, according to the Department of...
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Woman Files Suit Against Employer Who Fired Her Hours After Cancer Diagnosis
CHICAGO (CBS) – The day Elisa Madonia learned she had cancer, she thought things couldn’t get any worse, but they did. She says just a few hours after her doctors told her employer she would need some...
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2 Investigators: Transition To Affordable Care Act Rough For Some Blue Cross...
By Dave Savini (CBS) – There has been a lot of confusion since the Affordable Care Act went into effect last year. There have been implementation delays and insurance policy changes that have confused...
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Deadline Looms For Affordable Care Act Signup
CHICAGO (CBS) — Don’t delay. Enroll today. That’s the message Illinois officials are pushing before the March 31 deadline to sign up for a health insurance policy under the Affordable Care Act, known...
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Charges Likely To Be Dropped Against Volunteers Signing People Up For Obamacare
CHICAGO (STMW) – Chicago Police detained and later charged two men last week after receiving a report that they were going door-to-door, possibly scamming elderly residents of the Garfield Ridge...
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Glitches For Obamacare Site As Uninsured Scramble To Meet Deadline
Updated 03/31/14 – 1:29 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Illinois residents who don’t have health insurance yet have just hours left to sign up, or face a potential tax penalty next year, but they could have...
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Sheriff Helping Cook County Inmates Sign Up For Healthcare
CHICAGO (CBS) — At Cook County Jail 4,000 one-time inmates now have health coverage. CBS 2’s Brad Edwards reports why in this original report. One inmate at Cook County Jail is having a son on Friday....
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Clout-Heavy Firm Had Key Job In Illinois’ Obamacare Rollout
CHICAGO (AP) – A key subcontractor working on the campaign to promote President Barack Obama’s health care law in Illinois is a Chicago political strategy consulting firm owned by three former aides to...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Illinois Health Care Worker
(CBS/AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a setback to government labor unions on Monday, ruling they cannot require in-home healthcare workers in Illinois to pay union dues. The 5-4 ruling found the...
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Supreme Court Decision On Employers, Contraceptives Divides Chicagoans
(CBS) – One side calls it a victory for religious freedom — the other, a setback for women’s rights. Those are two views about Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that small, privately run companies...
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What Has The Affordable Care Act Accomplished A Year Later?
The next Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”) will begin on November 15, 2014. But with almost a year under its belt, has the Affordable Care Act impact as many...
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Open Enrollment Period For Affordable Care Act Begins
(CBS) — Today is the start of open enrollment for 2015 healthcare coverage under the embattled Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and across Illinois there have been sign-up events where...
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Minimum Wage Workers Keep Up The Fight For $15-An-Hour
CHICAGO (CBS) – Fast food and home healthcare workers were rallying in the River North neighborhood early Thursday, hoping to keep the pressure on state lawmakers to raise the minimum wage. Just two...
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