Health Care Reform
As lawmakers complete a week long recess in their home states, Obama administration officials move forward on implementing certain provisions of the health care reform legislation. Recent national polling shows a majority of Americans strongly favor repeal of the law.
As health care reform legislation continues to take shape this year, we encourage you and others to engage members of Congress by visiting the Health Action Network.
Myth: Higher health care costs are the result of continually rising insurance premiums, inflating the price of health care.
Fact: Just the opposite is true. Because insurance is a means of financing health care, premiums have to track the underlying cost of health care services. Those underlying costs have been rising and insurance premiums have simply kept pace.
The new federal health care reform law may change how some consumers access health care and health care coverage. Kaiser Permanente is currently working to interpret and implement changes mandated by the new law in accordance with the schedule outlined by Congress. In some cases,… Read More »April 2010 – Update on the Health Care Reform
It was announced earlier this week that our parent company is taking steps to prevent a gap in coverage that could leave many young Americans uninsured.
Each year in June, many young people – because of their age, student status or other factors – become ineligible as dependents on their parents’ insurance policies. Health care reform legislation, signed into law last month, will extend dependent coverage to age 26 for plan years beginning September 23, 2010. While this is great news, it also means that many members would face a coverage gap during the months before this provision is fully implemented.