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The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced. Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
No out-of-pocket costs for preventive services like colorectal and mammogram screenings and annual wellness visits
50% discount for brand name drugs purchased while in the Part D donut hole, leading to the closure of the donut hole entirely
$700 in covered drug costs for the average senior would be lost and the sickest seniors would face $3,600 in additional out-of-pocket costs
Reduction of billions in overpayments to private insurers in Medicare and a new requirement that 85% of every dollar is spent on healthcare rather than costs/profits
Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago
when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a
majority of Americans have approved of the healthcare law, also known as
Obamacare, since Gallup first asked about it in this format in November
2012.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, aims to provide greater access to health care coverage, improve the quality of services delivered and reduce the rate of increase in health spending.
The Affordable Care Act is a highly complex piece of legislation that includes benefit increases for seniors, makes improvements that help to contain health care costs, and extends the solvency of the Medicare Part A trust fund. To follow is a summary of how the House ACA repeal legislation would undermine the enhanced health security provided to seniors and people with disabilities by the health care reform law.
Two swing-state Democrats offer middle ground on health care. – WASHINGTON POST. A pair of swing-state Democrats are offering new legislation that would create Medicare-style options for non-elderly workers, with a heavy focus on rural areas that have few insurers offering coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Trump’s actions on Obamacare “devastating” for millions, particularly older, sicker Americans. – WHBY, GREEN BAY, WI. National Committee CEO Max Richtman says the President ”is more concerned with politics than taking care of people.”
Hillary Clinton’s plan for health care can best be summed up as
Obamacare Plus: If elected, she would push to preserve the Affordable
Care Act as-is, but she would add financial protections for struggling
consumers.
The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug
on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care —
not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day
from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
More than one-third of Americans are unaware that ObamaCare and the Affordable Care Act are the same law.
The figure comes from a new poll
by Morning Consult that found 35 percent of Americans do not know
ObamaCare is another label — made popular by the GOP — used to describe
the Affordable Care Act, enacted under former President Barack Obama in 2010.
About
17 percent of Americans polled thought they were two different laws,
and 18 percent said the didn’t know whether they were the same policy or
two different things.
A broad swath of health-care constituencies weighed in on Thursday to oppose a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, forming an uncommonly united front against a decision by the Trump administration not to defend significant parts of the law.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced.
Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors. Below are some of the ways that the Affordable Care Act is helping seniors.
Medicare
beneficiaries are eligible to receive many preventive services with no
out-of-pocket costs. These include flu shots, tobacco cessation
counseling, as well as no-cost screenings for cancer, diabetes and other
chronic diseases.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced.
Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced. Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
Though the Affordable Care Act has so far withstood Trump administration sabotage and two Supreme Court challenges, the health care system goes through unnecessary shocks every time the law is threatened — and everyday people (especially older Americans) must live in constant fear of losing coverage.
