A final summary of the major changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (aka Obamacare): – Kids can continue to be covered by their parents’ health insurance until they’re 26. – Insurers cannot impose an unreasonable premium increase without justification (generally anything less than 10% is ok). – Insurers have to tell customers …
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Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the United States. Presently, Medicaid provides health and long-term care coverage to 59 million individuals. Under the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), Medicaid is set to expand its eligibility for coverage to include persons with income levels at or below 133 percent of the federal …
A summary from the White House: *Note: Medicare is for the elderly and Medicaid is for the poor. Most of the controversy and supreme court discussion is around Medicaid, not the below Medicare. Strengthening Medicare Nearly 50 million older Americans and Americans with disabilities rely on Medicare each year, and the new health care …
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul comes after a century of debate over what role the government should play in helping people in the United States afford medical care. A look at the issue through the years: 1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt champions national health insurance as he unsuccessfully tries to …
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Despite the slowest decade of population growth since the Great Depression, the USA remains the world’s fastest-growing industrialized nation and the globe’s third-most populous country at a time when some are actually shrinking. The United States reached 308.7 million in 2010, up 9.7% since 2000 — a slight slowdown that many experts say was caused by the …
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