Updates matching "Access to Health Insurance"

Twenty organizations representing millions of patients and consumers across the country sent a letter to the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury urging the administration to address patient concerns before finalizing troubling rules that as currently drafted would undermine access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage.

The administration clarified that an Idaho bulletin permitting the sale of health insurance products that don’t meet required consumer protections and discriminate against those with pre-existing conditions would be in violation of the federal health care law.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) submitted comments to the Department of Labor regarding proposed changes to rules governing association health plans (AHPs). The comments detail several ways the proposed rule could divide the individual insurance market and significantly weaken patient protections leaving cancer patients and survivors with few meaningful or affordable coverage choices.

ACS CAN together with a dozen patient groups sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today urging clarification that allowing health plans to be sold that would essentially discriminate against older and sicker individuals would violate numerous requirements of the health care law.

As directed by the president’s executive order, the Department of Labor issued proposed rules governing the expansion of association health plans (AHP).

Today Congress approved a final tax bill that essentially repeals the nation’s health care law with no replacement. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), eliminating the insurance requirement from current law would lead to 13 million more Americans being uninsured by 2027 and would increase premiums by 10 percent annually.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) released a first-of-its-kind survey today assessing the impact of paid medical leave on cancer patients, survivors and caregivers. The survey of people affected by cancer revealed those with paid leave overwhelmingly said it had a positive effect on their physical and financial health.