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Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jul 07, 2010
A new tracking poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that support for the Affordable Care Act has risen dramatically from 41 to 48 percent, a 7 percentage point increase since the poll was last done in May.
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Claire McAndrew on Jul 06, 2010
Many of you have sent in questions about how the new health care law will affect you and your family. We’ve compiled some answers from our experts to help you navigate changes to the health care system. If you’d like to submit your own question, please click here.
Posted by: Angela Shubert on Jul 06, 2010
The tax extenders bill (also known as the jobs bill), H.R. 4213, has been stalled in Congress for weeks. The Senate has now attempted to pass a bill to address the unemployment and state budget crisis three times to no avail. Each step along the way, the Senate has hit a wall of opposition that is supposedly based on concerns about increasing the federal deficit. To appease these concerns, the Senate cut a critical provision to provide additional assistance to states for Medicaid by one-third – but the bill still failed to win the 60 votes necessary to pass. Every Republican and one Democrat voted against the bill.
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jul 02, 2010
One of the earliest and most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act is the provision that allows young adults to stay on their family’s health coverage until age 26. This is expected to help many graduating college and high school seniors—but it will also help hundreds of 20-somethings who are currently uninsured because they were not able to stay on their parents’ plan. Our fact sheet explains the details.
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs
Posted by: Christine Sebastian on Jul 01, 2010
The web portal Is up and running! Today, July 1, you can visit HealthCare.gov for the first time ever and view all the health coverage options that are available to you!
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jun 29, 2010
During the final months leading up to the passage of health reform, it seemed you couldn’t read a newspaper without seeing a headline about another insurance company attempting to impose enormous rate hikes on its customers in the individual market. Although these insurance companies tried to make it seem like the rate hikes would only affect a small portion of the market, a new survey out by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that not only was a large percentage of the individual market erroneously affected by the rate hikes, it forced some to switch to lower-cost plans with less coverage.
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs
Posted by: Jenny Sullivan on Jun 25, 2010
Those of you who have followed health reform have probably heard a lot about Massachusetts’ historic health reform law that passed in 2006—what’s going well, what could be done better, and what it might mean for health reform implementation around the country. We’ve even blogged about it this month.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Children's Health,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jun 24, 2010
One of the most popular arguments of opponents of the health reform law is that the law does nothing to ‘fix’ Medicare, which they claim is full of waste and fraud. Like most of the rhetoric coming from the opposition, this argument is just not true.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Medicare
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jun 22, 2010
Primary care health professionals play a vital role in keeping our families and our communities healthy. Their focus on preventive care and wellness is key to keeping us healthier in the long run. Despite the need for primary care physicians, there is a growing shortage of doctors in the field.
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs,Pre-Existing Conditions
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jun 17, 2010
It doesn’t even need to be said that women play an integral role in the health care of many others, including their children, their parents, and their families as a whole. And though women make up half of the U.S. population, for years they have not received treatment equal to men in the health care system. Health reform aims to eliminate this unfair treatment.
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Category: Affordability,Women's Health,Health Care Costs