The US healthcare reform law was approved in March last year, making it compulsory for Americans to buy medical insurance and illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to customers with pre-existing conditions.
It is one of only two workable solutions to providing health care coverage to those with pre-existing medical conditions and the only one that would leave insurance coverage in the hands of the private market.
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Avoid unnecessary duplication by checking your homeowner, life-insurance and medical-insurance policies and your charge cards for whatever travel-related coverage they may already include.
Central to ObamaCare are requirements that health insurers (1) accept everyone who applies (guaranteed issue), (2) cannot charge more based on serious medical conditions (modified community rating), and (3) include numerous coverage mandates that force insurance to pay for many often uncovered medical conditions.
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Included in the annual Medicare Trustees' report are separate actuarial estimates of the unfunded liability for Medicare Part A (the hospital portion), Part B (medical insurance) and Part D (prescription drug coverage).
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The president supports new consumer protections, including the right to emergency room insurance coverage, easier access to medical specialists, reform of appeal procedures and a repeal of the federal ban on consumers suing health plans.
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For example, Adobe Systems Inc. in San Jose posts its employee benefits online, including deductibles for medical and dental insurance, payroll deductions for optional coverage and details about its sabbatical programs, 401(k) plan, profit sharing and employee stock purchase plans.
This includes expanding coverage and establishing family and medical leave insurance to make leave affordable.
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Thus, there is less spending on medical care because there are fewer people with enough insurance coverage or money in their pocket to pay for the care they need.
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There are also insurance policies that provide coverage for most medical conditions but omit coverage for a specific pre-existing condition which can be a problem if that pre-existing condition is a cancer which might return in the future.
We know medical device manufacturers will prosper under the new law -- the Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans and these newly insured individuals will use products made by the medical device industry.
Insurance plans cannot exclude pre-existing medical conditions from coverage for children under age 19, although insurers could still reject those children outright for coverage in the individual market until 2014.
As in medical insurance, pre-existing conditions are usually exempted from coverage and the warranty company makes the call as to whether the condition was pre-existing, as well as to whether a particular system should be replaced or just patched up.
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Obama aims to bring down health care costs and provide medical insurance to many of the more than 45 million Americans without coverage.
If upheld, the law would forbid insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.
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The study comes less than 15 months before the Affordable Care Act is expected to bring broader medical care coverage to 30 million Americans who do not have health insurance.
The report also found that two-thirds of young adults ages 19 to 29 who spent time without insurance coverage in the past year had gone without needed medical care because it cost too much.
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In place of creating a national health system, the law bans insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions, bars insurers from setting a dollar limit on health coverage payouts and requires them to cover preventive care at no additional cost to consumers.
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Indeed, the American Medical Association has urged insurance companies to classify such procedures as part of basic health coverage.
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By contrast, more than 70 percent would keep the part of the law that bars insurance companies from denying coverage to people who have pre-existing medical conditions.
That bill, which is opposed by the Republican majority in the Senate who favor a less comprehensive measure, would allow medical patients to sue their health maintenance organization or insurance company in the event a coverage decision caused direct, documentable harm.
Mr. Starr, who broadly supports the Obama administration's efforts to overhaul the health system, has suggested that Democrats consider a system in which anyone who doesn't get insured can sign away access to the law's subsidies, insurance exchanges for buying policies and guaranteed coverage of pre-existing medical conditions for five years, rather than pay the fee.
Medical, dental, and life insurance plans, which have varying levels of contribution and coverage to elect, are usually non-negotiable.
But so, too, is relying on donations to substitute for insurance coverage in the event of any sort of severe, long-running medical need.
People get kicked out of their insurance plans because they have increased medical costs and they're deemed to be unworthy of coverage.
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Today, as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a child who is born with a pre-existing medical condition that would previously have resulted in a lifetime without health insurance can no longer be denied coverage.
With the re-election of President Obama, 30 million Americans without health insurance are certainly winners because they will in less than 14 months have access to medical coverage without the threat of a Romney White House pushing for repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
In the meantime, for those Americans who can't get insurance today because they have pre-existing medical conditions, we will immediately offer low-cost coverage that will protect you against financial ruin if you become seriously ill.
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