- Improving Preventive Health Coverage. To expand the number of Americans receiving preventive care, the law provides new funding to state Medicaid programs that choose to cover preventive services for patients at little or no cost. Effective January 1, 2013.
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The Senate this week will pass the Budget Conference Report (it only needs a majority, which the GOP now has) including massive benefit cuts for seniors in Medicare.
via Entitled to Know.
Repealing the federal health law would add an additional 19 million to the ranks of the uninsured in 2016 and increase the federal deficit over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
via Kaiser Health News.
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- What ACA Repeal Means for 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.
As of Feb., 11.7m people had signed up for an #ACA marketplace plan. How many in your area?
via Kaiser Health News.
Related Reading:
- How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
- Medicare beneficiaries are eligible to receive many preventive services with no out-of-pocket costs.
Michigan is poised to expand Medicaid to about 470,000 residents in the next several years under President Barack Obama’s health care reform law following a state Senate vote Tuesday. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, one of nine Republican governors to endorse the Medicaid expansion, has aggressively pursued the policy since February.
A small hospital in a coastal North Carolina community will close its doors within months and its parent company says Gov. Pat McCrory’s ® decision not to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is partly to blame. Vidant Health, a nonprofit 10-hospital network, will shutter the 49-bed Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, about an hour’s drive east of the chain’s Greenville headquarters, within six months, the company announced this week.
Medicare beneficiaries will save, on average, $5,000 over the next ten
years thanks to health care reform provisions. Here are just a few of
the real-life benefits millions of seniors in Medicare would lose
immediately if Republicans have their way and repeal the Affordable Care
Act.
via NCPSSM.
The GOP passed their budget yesterday and as to no one’s surprise, it included trillions in cuts to seniors.
“The Republican Senate Budget would lead to the loss of 2.3 million jobs…“
Related Reading:
The Fiscal Year 2016 House and Senate Republican Budget Resolutions and Their Effect on Seniors.
Donut Hole: The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Illustrated:
This illustration explains how the Part D coverage gap (“donut hole”) affects the costs your clients will pay for their prescription drugs in 2016.
Click here or the graphic above to view the full document.
via NCOA.
Related Reading:
- How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
- The ACA reduces prescription drug prices for seniors and closes the coverage gap, known as the “donut hole.” Medicare beneficiaries who fall into the coverage gap, known as the “donut hole,” automatically receive a discount on prescription drugs. Each year, beneficiaries pay a reduced cost for brand name and generic drugs in the coverage gap. The law closes the coverage gap in 2020.
