The law will result in health insurance coverage for about 94% of the American population, reducing the uninsured by 31 million people, and increasing Medicaid ... The Act both strengthens existing forms of health insurance coverage while building a new, affordable health insurance market for individuals and families who ...
Apr 25, 2013 ... New in 2017: As President Trump and Congress consider repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Foundation is summarizing major proposals under ... On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the repeal of the individual mandate would cause insurance premiums to rise. It would leave about 13 million people without health insurance coverage. The bill will go through a reconcile process with the House, which is expected to be completed sometime next week ...
May 4, 2017 ... The Congressional Budget Office estimated in March that 24 million people would lose health insurance if the AHCA were to pass, and the changes ... Under current law, the federal government initially paid 100 percent of costs of Medicaid expansion beneficiaries, a percentage set to wind down to 90 ...
The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing less favorable benefit limitations on those ...
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."