A new direction for healthcare...
A new report released by the Census Bureau showed that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expanding health care coverage to more than 500,000 young adults in 2010, a number expected to continue rising.
The full extent of the ACA’s coverage-expansion provisions, such as increasing Medicaid eligibility and offering subsidies and competitive insurance markets to those without access to employer-sponsored coverage, don’t kick in until 2014. Several other reforms though, such as a measure in last year’s law allowing young adults to stay covered by their parents’ policy until they are 26, are already in place.
The result has been impressive: hundreds of thousands of young adults under age 26 continue to be insured after leaving home, graduating, or losing work-based coverage. The measure is a great relief to mothers like Lori Bresnan, who travelled to DC last January to tell Congress not to repeal the measure. Even more remarkable is that this happened at the same time that the economic downturn caused employer-based insurance to fall to a record low.
Despite the good news, achieving health reform’s goal of full coverage for all remains an ongoing effort. If we can reach January 1, 2014 without having the law repealed or substantially undermined, millions more Americans will have this same security.
Of course more people are covered because they are given something. However, has the total cost gone down? No. It’s just that the rest of the pool is paying for the covered children.
Health care is such a complex service and its delivered and paid for through so many diverse channels that it is essential that it be organized so that one universal channel controls all of the product service delivery.
The changes already implemented have made a real difference for the public and for individual families;
We need to allow this vital legislation continue in place so it can work; providing no healht insurance mandate is much worse in the long term and there is a presumption that you avoid the cost if you do not insure it and that is just incorrect… we end up paying and likley at much higher costs when we do not provide a comprehensive system of coverage that blankets all. Evendually as the other elements of the law kick in it will be possbile to excercise better controls so that preimums for all and for small business will begin to fall. Last year in Ma the state was able to role back premium increases that were exessive and instead of having increases of 15 to 20% ten times the rate of inflation , the price increases were rolled back tothe 5 to 7% range and insurers such as Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim had to giverefunds and rebates of these arbitrary increases… It does work and all of thtese elements of a complex system have to play fair for the greater good.
I am 52 and part of the Pre-existing Group that has coverage since July 2010. FANTASTIC. My permeium when I first joined was 430 dollars per month and it is now 214 dollars a month. Deductable is 1,500 and my meds are 4 dollars, only one is higher. Now, everyone in my group are the sick- we are the chroniclly ill.
There were 5 questions to join, name,address, DOB,SS and telephone number. And ten days later I had Affordable Healthcare. And worries about my family loosing our home IF I get really bad off. It has changed my life and it will change all Americans lives. But please be aware.
And the reason everyone has not gotten start at the same time, remember those crazy stories all manufactured by lobbyist and sorry Murdock’s news groups, FOX, the Times, and Clear Channel Communications. Had nothing to do with the truth. Only corperate greed. I mean we all are aware of the this Congress is not for fellow Americans they are there to everything they can to make corporations take over our Government. We have to stop them. And we can. Remember. you and I are the government. Turns out corporate greed is Big Brother.
Anytime there has been an issue about Human Rights in the USA, be it Slavery, Suffrage, Civil Rights and now Healthcare Reform, there are those who are profiting off the pain and suffering of millions. And we have to stand up and fight for Human Rights.
where in our constituion does it give the government the power
to enforce health insurance, we have an obligation to ourselves
to protect ourselves, we don’t need big brother.Sure when there’s
a free ride people will get onboard, but who pays for it, it’s not
free, to us who work and pay taxes, our childern will bear the
cost,our government borrows 36 cent of every dollar that it spends
and if we continue on this path we will be bankrupt in another
10 years, so pray we get smarter or pray you don’t live to
see what will happen when this country is taken over by our
enemies.