In 2010, President Barack Obama passed theAffordable Care Act (ACA)or Obamacare to help reduce healthcare costs for families and ensure more people were able to access health insurance. Originally, it required everyone to have qualifying insurance, or they would face a tax penalty. However, it...
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, to be successful, the U.S. government must make efforts to appeal to young consumers, called young invincibles, by making vision and dental coverage essential services. Topics include the state of the federal health exchange website as of...
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Since its passage in 2010, theAffordable Care Act(ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, has expanded health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. However, nearly 30 million Americans — over 9% of the population —still lacked health insurancein 2019. This included 5.7% of all children und...
ObamaCare requires insurers to offer benefit plans on the new exchanges that are relatively generous and would include coverage for maternity, prescription drugs and treatment of mental illness. These are clearly important areas to cover. In order to get this level of coverage, however, many people...
The Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to have health insurance, but what if you need help paying for coverage? The Premium Tax Credit is a new refundable tax credit that can lower your monthly health insurance premiums. To qualify for the credit, you must: purcha...
To sign up for ObamaCare find your state’s health insurance marketplace, create an account, then enroll in a plan. Sign up for ObamaCare during open enrollment.
What unanswered questions do you have about buying a health insurance policy? Take a moment to make a list of all your questions and start finding answers for them. The more familiar you get with buying health insurance, the more confident you will be about overcoming this obstacle to working...
Obamacare’s expanded Medicare preventive coverage applies to all Medicare beneficiaries, whether they have Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan. However, if you’re interested in broader health coverage, many Medicare Advantage plans cover benefits beyond Original Medicare, such as routine vis...
(2017). How Young, Uninsured Americans Respond to News Coverage of Obamacare: An Experimental Test of an Affective Mediation Model. Mass Communication and Society: Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 614-636.doi:10.1080/15205436.2017.1333621Martin, Jason A...