By Daniel Clements | March 21st 2018
“ObamaCare” is coming! Starting October 1st 2013, you can register at the “health insurance marketplace.” (Register at www.healthcare.gov or 1-800-318-2596.)
Other Affordable Care Act provisions are already in place and helping patients:
- No more lifetime caps, or yearly caps, for medical costs paid by insurance companies
- No more exclusions for pre-existing conditions
- No more patients who are unable to buy health insurance at any price
- Children can stay on their parents’ insurance (at family rates) until age 26
- Insurance companies are required to reimburse premiums back to patients if costs are lower than expected
- Expanded Medicaid eligibility
- No copays for checkups and vaccines, for children and women
You can read the American Medical Association’s 2-page fact sheet. Click here to download it.
— David Epstein MD
