The wait for 4-year interim high-risk pools to provide temporary health insurance coverage for those with pre-existing conditions should be over this week. That’s according to the time frame laid out in health care reform legislation. The reality is less certain.
If you are under age 26, you may be wondering where the new healthcare legislation leaves you. The rules for continued coverage under your parents’ plan are complex and convoluted, which aligns them with the healthcare bill as a whole. But there’s good news.
If you want the nitty gritty on when different elements in HR 3590 and HR 4872 go into effect, Kaiser Family Foundation has the answers for you. KFF has put together a detailed implementation timeline for healthcare reform from 2010 until 2018.
From insurance reforms to Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drugs, tax changes, CLASS Act for long-term care, and individual and employer requirements, you can find it all in the timeline. Get it here.
Just in time to meet the 72-hour window for Thursday’s Healthcare Summit, Obama’s healthcare proposal is out. Notice it’s not called a “plan”. There’s a reason for that. The one word that comes to mind having browsed through it is “reactive”, and reacting is not planning. Nonetheless, here’s what’s in it, including a link so you can thumb through the 11-page document yourself.
For the past few days we’ve been bombarded with the news that Massachusetts painted itself red on Tuesday. Equally unavoidable were the countless interpretations of what it all means. Yes, Democrats lost their super-majority, but why? Perhaps the most ironic explanation was victor Scott Brown’s. In a strange twist of an argument we’ve mainly been hearing from uneducated Tea Partiers, he said Massachusetts voters have theirs, and for the rest of the country to go get its own. Fascinating.
