High Risk Pools

Health Care Reform Program Much Costlier Than Expected In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Obama Care, Health Care Reform, California Pcip, Obamacare California, Pcip, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Home News

A temporary program created by the 2010 health care reform law has provided health insurance to fewer people than expected. Yet at the same time, in o...

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Would You Spend Six Months Uninsured To Qualify For Affordable Health Coverage?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Uninsured, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Pcip, Health Insurance, Politics News

The authors of the health care reform bill signed into law last year did not mean to create an incentive for people with private insurance to abandon ...

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The Best Kept Secret of Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Affordable Care Act, Pcip, SCHIP Program, Uninsured, Health Reform, Politics News

Are you uninsured or do you know someone who is? I do. I get a call or email almost every week from someone who asks me to help them get insurance. Now I have a better answer to give them. The federal government just made it a lot easier to get insurance.

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PCIP: Enrollment In High-Risk Pools Inches Up To 12,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, High-Risk Pool, Health Discrimination, High Risk Pool, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Pcip, Pre-Existing Conditions, Politics News

The government's health insurance program for Americans excluded from the private market because of preexisting conditions continued to increase its e...

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Hey, Republicans - it's not nice to scare Grandma for no good reason

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, Preventive Care, Doughnut Hole, Doughnut-Hole, Wellness, Preexisting Condition, Preexisting Conditions, High-Risk-Pools, High Risk Pools, Business News

I'm trying to remember when it was that Republicans became such big champions of Medicare. Certainly not in 1965, when the GOP joined the American Medical Association in fighting enactment of the program.

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"Third Way" Goes the Wrong Way on Abortion Restrictions in Health Reform

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stupak Amendment, High Risk Pools, Abortion, Abortion Ban, Health Reform, Third Way, Insurance Exchanges, Politics News

Originally published by RH Reality Check. At this point it's not news to anyone that our ostensibly pro-choice President has presided, through a combi...

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Abortion Rights at Risk

Ellen R. Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Health Care Reform, Abortion, HHS Statement, Politics News

The Department of Health and Human Services' recent announcement limiting when women can obtain abortion coverage would create a new sphere of abortion restrictions, undermining women's reproductive autonomy.

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Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools

Jessica Arons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Abortion, Preexisting Condistions Insurance Plan, Preexisting Condition, Stupak Amendment, Obama, Health Reform, Stupak, Pcips, Politics News

This week, a commotion arose over the question of whether Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans, also known as high risk pools, can include abortion...

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In The Public Interest: Healthy Ways to Cut the Deficit

Larry McNeely | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Health Care Bill, Debt, Recission, Health Care Advocates, Republicans Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Democrats Health Care, Health Care Legislation, Fiscal Responsibility, Reconciliation, Health Insurance Reform, Cbo, Congressional Budget Office, Politics News

The Affordable Care Act is affordable not just for consumers; it's also affordable for taxpayers. The Deficit Commission should not have to re-fight last year's health care debate.

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In The Public Interest: Health Care Reform - A Down Payment, Not "Broken Promises"

Larry McNeely | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Risk Pools, Health Care Bill, Recission, Health Care Advocates, Republicans Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Democrats Health Care, Health Care Legislation, Reconciliation, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Health reform opponents want to spook policy-makers into backing down from implementing the new law and thereby delivering to American health care consumers the new rights and options they deserve.

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Illinois Will Miss Deadline On High-Risk Health Insurance Pool

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Dealine, Illinois High-Risk Pools, Illinois Healthcare, Illinois, High-Risk Pools, Chicago, Chicago News

In one of the first major provisions of federal health-care reform, states were supposed to establish temporary high-risk insurance pools for people w...

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Existing High Risk Pools Could Lock Some More Expensive Health Care Coverage

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hcr, Health Care Reform, High Risk Health Care, High Risk Pools, Health and Human Services, Medicare, Politics News

WASHINGTON — It's an eagerly awaited early benefit of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul: affordable coverage for Americans with medi...

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