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- Obama And Allies Tout Preventive-services And Drug Benefits Of Health-reform Law To Medicare Beneficiaries In Ky.
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- Go Back To The Wild West?
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Repeal of health law would have big impact on Kentucky, HHS Secretary Sebelius writes
The U.S. House voted again yesterday to repeal the health-care reform law, a move that has no chance of passing in the current Senate and would be vetoed by President Obama if it did.
In an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal, which put the news of the House vote on an inside page, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, said a repeal of the law would have big ramifications for Kentucky because:
? The law eliminates lifetime limits on coverage because it prevents insurance companies from dropping customers if they get sick or meet a lifetime dollar cap. This had helped 1,414,000 Kentuckians, including 528,000 women and 362,000 children.
? It provides free preventive care like vaccinations, checkups and cancer screenings for 732,000 Kentuckians who have private health insurance.
? It provides funding for expanding community health centers in underserved areas.
? It requires insurance companies to spend "at least 80 cents of every premium dollar on health care and quality improvements, not CEO salaries or advertising," Sebelius writes. If they don't do so, customers get a rebate.
? Seniors receive free preventive services under Medicare, and the law eliminates the prescription-drug "doughnut hole." Since the law was enacted, 5.2 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved more than $3.7 billion on prescription drugs.
? The law allows young adults up to age 26 to remain on their parents' insurance plan, which translates to 48,000 Kentuckians. (Read more)
? The law eliminates lifetime limits on coverage because it prevents insurance companies from dropping customers if they get sick or meet a lifetime dollar cap. This had helped 1,414,000 Kentuckians, including 528,000 women and 362,000 children.
? It provides free preventive care like vaccinations, checkups and cancer screenings for 732,000 Kentuckians who have private health insurance.
? It provides funding for expanding community health centers in underserved areas.
? It requires insurance companies to spend "at least 80 cents of every premium dollar on health care and quality improvements, not CEO salaries or advertising," Sebelius writes. If they don't do so, customers get a rebate.
? Seniors receive free preventive services under Medicare, and the law eliminates the prescription-drug "doughnut hole." Since the law was enacted, 5.2 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved more than $3.7 billion on prescription drugs.
? The law allows young adults up to age 26 to remain on their parents' insurance plan, which translates to 48,000 Kentuckians. (Read more)
- Feds Say Reform Law Has Saved Kentuckians On Medicare An Average Of $928 This Year On Prescription Drugs
The federal health reform law has saved seniors and the disabled millions of dollars on their Medicare prescription-drug coverage, says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS said 65,040 Kentuckians have saved a total of $60.4 million in...
- Obama And Allies Tout Preventive-services And Drug Benefits Of Health-reform Law To Medicare Beneficiaries In Ky.
The federal health-reform law has made drugs more affordable for seniors, broadened coverage for preventive services and made Medicare more solvent, the Obama administration and its allies are pointing out today, the 48th anniversary of the enactment...
- Affordable Care Act Helping Families, Seniors In Rural Areas, Agriculture Secretary Says On Its Second Anniversary
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is already making an impact, including for people who live in rural America. That was the message from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today on the second anniversary of the enactment of the federal health-care...
- Medicare Improving Fast
There is an intense debate over Rep. Paul Ryan?s (R. WI) proposal to scrap Medicare and turn it into a voucher program shifting costs to seniors, a debate that became even more intense when it was passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives....
- Go Back To The Wild West?
Just a year ago, children with pre-existing conditions like leukemia, or even asthma, could be denied health insurance. Seniors struggled to pay for prescription drugs when they reached the ?doughnut hole.? And recent college graduates who could not find...