Sentences with phrase «denying health coverage»

Province challenges OHIP coverage to injured migrant workers Injured farm workers could lose OHIP Migrant workers win healthcare extension Injured migrant farm workers win back OHIP Government aims to deny injured seasonal workers health care Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful

To those who say efforts are needed to ensure more American have health insurance; Walker recently explained that denying health coverage to additional low - income Americans helps more people «live the American Dream» because they won't be «dependent on the American government.»

How denying health coverage to students is «the right thing,» I can not comprehend.

And the logic of denying health coverage of ALL types to ALL students and staff is really the best way to demonstrate the preciousness of human life.

With such little - understood connections between diseases and their origin — and between one pathological breakdown and another — it's an awfully slippery slope to deny health coverage to someone «who sits at home, eats poorly» and gets sick.

Mitt Romney does not support the Blunt amendment, which would empower employers and insurers to deny health coverage they find morally objectionable.

Being a woman could once again be considered a pre-existing condition, allowing health insurers to deny health coverage to tens of millions of women.

Not exact matches

Trump said he is willing to keep the provisions of the law that prevent insurers from denying coverage because of a preexisting condition and that allow children to stay on their parents» health plan until they turn 26, according to The Journal.

The law prevents insurers from denying coverage because of «pre-existing» health conditions.

Current law ensures that no person can be denied coverage or charged more based on his or her health status.

Such plans can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and don't have to cover all of the essential benefits that previously included preventive and wellness services, mental health, maternity and prescription drugs.

Before the Affordable Care Act stopped insurers from denying coverage for a pre-existing health condition, many consumers were turned down, charged higher prices or had conditions excluded from their plans.

The benefits provider denied coverage because the plan wording excluded drugs Health Canada hasn't approved (which includes medical cannabis).

Also known as Obamacare, it's a federal statute signed into law in 2010 that seeks to expand Medicaid eligibility, establish health insurance exchanges, and prohibit insures from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

Short - term coverage is medically underwritten, so individuals with preexisting conditions or high health risks are frequently denied.

I guess you think a business owned by a Jehovah's Witness should be allowed to deny coverage for blood transfusions or polio vaccinations in their company health insurance plan.

Wendy — is it ok if your employer denies you any health care coverage based on his or her beliefs that prayer is the only acceptable form of medical intervention?

«One particular religious freedom issue demands our immediate attention: the now - finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statementHealth and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statementhealth plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statement read.

According to the government's Hobby Lobby petition, the Supreme Court must decide whether or not a for - profit corporation can «deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives... based on the religious objections of the corporation's owners.»

Jehovah's Witnesses who object to blood transfusions could deny health care coverage for blood transfusions.

As a Catholic educated woman and mother, I am disappointed that health coverage of ALL at this university is being denied because of the religious view of contraception.

As the site points out, «under the Obama health plan, no one would be denied health care coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

Consider the cases of Barbara Wagner and Randy Stroup from Oregon: Both received letters from their health - insurance plans denying coverage for cancer treatments that their physicians had recommended.

You are not paying for health care, you are paying for paper shuffling, lawyers, lobbyists, an army of claims specialists with a financial incentive to deny you coverage, corporate profits and dividends, gargantuan (8 - 9 figure) CEO salaries, bonuses, and golden parachutes for the most badly mismanaged.

Is charity going to pick up all of those costs if their parents are unable to afford the cost of health insurance, or, if the parents lose their health coverage and the new insurer denies coverage on the basis of «pre-existing»??? Oh, and what about the 1 in 88 children who have Autism?

I was, of course, denied, as my son's heart condition was one of the preexisting conditions health insurance companies could completely flat out reject to provide coverage.

Carolyn also had the courage of her convictions from the very start in supporting the historic health care reform legislation which will expand coverage for 32 million Americans, make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors, and stop insurance companies from denying health care due to consumers» pre-existing conditions.

In his actions, Diaz (not to be confused with his son, the borough president, who is a gary marriage supporter) is asserting that his personal religious beliefs are enough to justify denying an entire group of New Yorkers the multitude of benefits that come with legal marriage — the right to visit your partner in the hospital should they get sick, the right to access your spouse's health insurance coverage, to name just a couple.

-- deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like asthma, heart disease and cancer, — cut back your health benefits, — throw some kids off their parents» insurance, — and roll back prescription coverage for seniors.

The rules taking effect Jan. 1 are intended to make it harder for health insurers to deny coverage for inpatient addiction treatment and medications used to fight addiction.

At a time when fatal heroin and opioid overdoses have risen to unprecedented rates — 10 suspected opiate overdose deaths a week in Erie County — many area families complain that health care insurers are denying coverage for loved ones seeking medication and inpatient treatment for their addictions.

Governor Cuomo today announced health insurers can not discriminate or deny coverage based on gender identity.

Positives both candidates agree come from the Affordable Care Act include increased access to health care and rules that don't let individuals with pre-existing conditions be denied coverage.

Opponents point out that the essential health benefits — features required of every plan — will vary by state (though New York State is unlikely to reduce them), and though individuals with pre-existing conditions won't be denied coverage, they could be charged higher premiums.

However, late last year he voted against a measure that would have given any company the right to deny women preventative - health coverage for almost any reason for a one - year period.

The general sentiment was that Astorino's all - out war on these vital services comes as President Donald Trump has taken steps to dismantle subsidies to health insurers under Obamacare, effectively gutting the signature program and denying millions vital healthcare coverage.

At the same time, his Attorney General is urging those who have been denied health insurance coverage for addiction treatment and mental illness to contact his office for help.

New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany - area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the disease such as moderate to severe liver scarring.

In early December, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska attempted to insert an amendment to the health care bill forbidding insurers from denying coverage of medical tests or treatments based on comparative effectiveness research findings.

Would health insurance companies call BRCA a preexisting condition and deny coverage?

In February he introduced the «No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2008» (H.R. 5449), which would bar insurance companies from hiking rates or denying coverage for preexisting medical conditions.

The legislation seeks to help prevent health insurers and employers from using an individual's genetic information as a basis for denying access to health coverage or a job, Teich explained.

GINA Becomes Genuine By late May, President George W. Bush was expected to have signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which will prohibit health insurers from canceling or denying coverage or hiking premiums based on a genetic predisposition to a specific disease.

Thirteen years in the making, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which prohibits employers and health insurance companies from denying jobs or coverage based on an individual's DNA, finally became law in May.

The House today passed a measure by a whopping 414 - to - 1 margin that would prohibit health insurers from canceling or denying coverage or hiking premiums based on a genetic predisposition to a specific disease.

«Of the community health center patients denied coverage by virtue of their zip code, most live in the south and more than one third lives in the Deep South.»

Of the health center patients denied expansion coverage, 72 percent live in a southern state.

Some parts of the Affordable Care Act sound great: Insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, and young adults will be allowed to stay on their parents» health plans until the age of 26.

«With many major health plans, it is routine to deny coverage on the first submission, so if patients are not willing to move through an appeals process, they will end up paying,» says Nancy Davenport - Ennis, the cofounder and CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of patients whose health - insurance claims have been denied.

Sen. Kristen Gillibrand had introduced the amendment, aiming to preserve a few ACA provisions tied to women's health: Current rules prohibit insurers from charging women more for coverage based on gender, or using pregnancy as a pre-existing condition to deny coverage, and require coverage of of birth control, mammograms, and cancer screenings without a co-pay.