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)...
View ArticleLow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGuaranteed 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleWho 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...
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleWho 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRainbow 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.
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleBeware 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...
View ArticleAffordable 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...
View ArticleSocial 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleFood 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...
View ArticleEnforcing 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...
View ArticleRomneycare 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...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleObamacare 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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