Summaries based on the original text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Passed by the US Senate 12-24-09. Passed by the US House of Representatives 3-21-10. Summary is for informational purposes only. Actual provisions and any amended portions of the bills apply).
Prohibitions Based on Salary
The plan sponsor of a group health plan (other [...]
No later than 24 months after the date of enactment of the Act health insurance issuers as well as plan sponsors or designated administrators of self-insured plans must provide a summary of benefits in paper or electronic [...]
Not less than one year (12 months) after enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Choices Act, the Secretary will put together standards for insurers for compiling summaries of benefits to [...]
The Secretary can develop or create guidelines which will allow an insurer to create “value based insurance designs.” [...]
Health insurance providing coverage to dependent children will be required to make such coverage available to those dependents who are not married until the age of [...]
Preventive Care Mandates; Group and individual plans must cover at a minimum and impose no cost sharing requirements [...]
Neither a group nor an individual health insurance plan can be rescinded for an enrollee once the enrollee is covered unless the covered individual [...]
Group health insurance and individual health insurance may not set lifetime benefit limits in dollar values to any participant or beneficiary (pp 19, lines [...]
Here is a cutting edge paper published in July 2009 on moratility and its relationship to health care quality in the united States. As a part of the paper’s analysis, there is a comparison of the United States health care system relative to health care in other developed nations.
Abstract
“Life expectancy in the United States fares [...]
We offer individual health insurance plans from a variety of health insurers. Below are two options for learning more about individual health insurance – one online and one offline.
1). Self-Directed Online Quote Service
This option is a link that will take you to an individual health insurance quote “engine” from a third party we use called [...]