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Federal Update   Hearing on Repealing Grandfathered Plans and Medical Loss Ratio Provisions    The House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee held a hearing this afternoon focused on draft legislation that will be introduced soon to roll back consumer protections for plans designated as "grandfathered" -- individual health insurance plans and employer-based health insurance plans already in existence when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The legislation would exempt grandfathered plans from adopting important insurance reforms included ...

Federal Update   Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Covers Nearly 50,000   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report today showing that Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan s (PCIP) are providing health coverage to nearly 50,000 people with high-risk pre-existing conditions nationwide. The PCIP was created under the Affordable Care Act to provide access to quality, affordable health care to people in every state with pre-existing conditions such as cancer who have gone ...

Federal Update   Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Covers Nearly 50,000   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report today showing that Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan s (PCIP) are providing health coverage to nearly 50,000 people with high-risk pre-existing conditions nationwide. The PCIP was created under the Affordable Care Act to provide access to quality, affordable health care to people in every state with pre-existing conditions such as cancer who have gone ...

Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... reporting requirements for small business.   ACS CAN opposed the amendment because its financial offset was to strip the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) of nearly all its funding. As you know, the Affordable Care Act established the Fund to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would have also made significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that ...