{"id":4972,"date":"2011-06-01T02:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2011-06-01T02:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:06:52","slug":"an-improvement-in-the-aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/an-improvement-in-the-aca\/","title":{"rendered":"An Improvement in the ACA"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the many problems with the Affordable Care Act, disrespectfully known as Obamacare, is that insurance companies in the temporary exchanges for people with preexisting conditions were charging an arm and a leg.  Yesterday Kathleen Sebelius announced a change that promises some much needed relief for those people.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1denied\"The government announced Tuesday that it will lower premiums and ease eligibility requirements for its fledgling health insurance program for people shut out from the private health insurance market because of pre-existing conditions. Premiums will fall by as much as 40 percent in some states<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, run by the Department of Health and Human Services in 23 states and by state governments in the rest, offers relatively affordable coverage for people who’ve been uninsured for at least six months because of conditions like diabetes or heart disease. The plan launched last summer as one of the first components of the health care reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. <\/p>\n

"This program changes lives, and in many cases saves lives," HHS director Kathleen Sebelius said on a Tuesday conference call with reporters\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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To be clear, no matter what is done to fix the ACA, it will fall short of what what America needs, until and unless it is transformed into Medicare for all.  Nevertheless, it\u2019s a major improvement over RepubliCare.  In RepubliCare, you pay a private insurance company until you get sick.  Then they cancel you, you become uninsurable, and you die.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many problems with the Affordable Care Act, disrespectfully known as Obamacare, is that insurance companies in the temporary exchanges for people with preexisting conditions were charging an arm and a leg.  Yesterday Kathleen Sebelius announced a change that promises some much needed relief for those people. The government announced Tuesday that it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}