Sentences with phrase «expand health insurance coverage»

He urges new policies and outreach efforts to expand health insurance coverage among children living in immigrant families.

Reid says the 2,074 - page bill would expand health insurance coverage to 30 million more Americans at an estimated cost of $ 849 billion over 10 years.

Republican leaders have set Friday as the goal for working out changes to Senate legislation that would repeal extensive parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the law dubbed Obamacare that expanded health insurance coverage to 20 million people.

The Oregon study found that expanded health insurance coverage was good for several things.

If there were ever a challenge for a right - leaning technocrat, it would be expanding health insurance coverage and making insurance coverage more secure at a lower price than Obamacare.

The researchers noted that their study does not invalidate the well - documented benefits of expanding health insurance coverage.

We support expanding health insurance coverage to all immigrant New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status.

Demand for medical services and facilities will continue to increase because of changing health care needs of aging baby boomers and expanded health insurance coverage created by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Not exact matches

The Department of Health and Human Services this week announced a new proposal that would expand the use of short - term health insurance plans, opening the door for more people to use the «skinny» coverage products while taking another swipe at the law known as ObamHealth and Human Services this week announced a new proposal that would expand the use of short - term health insurance plans, opening the door for more people to use the «skinny» coverage products while taking another swipe at the law known as Obamhealth insurance plans, opening the door for more people to use the «skinny» coverage products while taking another swipe at the law known as Obamacare.

Beginning in 2014, the ACA expanded coverage to millions of previously uninsured people through the expansion of Medicaid and the establishment of Health Insurance Marketplaces.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): Also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the act included a variety of health - related provisions that extended health insurance coverage to many uninsured Americans, implemented measures designed to reduce health care costs, imposed requirements on health providers and insurance companies, and levied a broad range of taxes to help pay for expanded healthcare.

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.

This law expands basic health care coverage to more than 32 million Americans who previously had no insurance.

With the Affordable Care Act, most insurance plans expanded coverage for women's health to preventative services, as well as «breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling in conjunction with each birth.»

He expanded a state - financed health insurance program to ensure coverage of nearly one million uninsured children in the state.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will propose that the state spend an additional $ 200 million to expand affordable housing for people living with HIV / AIDS, provide life insurance for people between the ages of 30 and 60 with HIV and spend more on health coverage and STD clinics in New York City.

Cuomo said he will propose that the state spend an additional $ 200 million to expand affordable housing for people living with HIV / AIDS, provide life insurance for people between the ages of 30 and 60 with HIV and spend more on health coverage and STD clinics in New York City.

[46] Family Health Plus would expand insurance coverage even further, offering free insurance to families and single adults who had too much income to be covered by Medicaid but could not afford insurance.

This single payer health insurance bill, if enacted, would bring affordable and expanded health coverage to all New Yorkers, including 1.2 million currently uninsured New Yorkers.

Most recently, hesponsored legislation related to domestic abuse and, in the past, has sponsored bills that would require insurance companies to expand women's health coverage.

«Because Texas opted not to expand Medicaid, around 1 million Texans are in a coverage gap without access to affordable health insurance.

Researchers at UCLA have that found states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act saw a significant increase in rates of health insurance among low - income adults compared with states that did not expand the program.

Many health insurance companies have expanded their coverage ambit to include domiciliary treatment.

«Moreover, we remain concerned about other regulations being put in place — including expanded association health plans and short - term limited duration plans — will also push up premiums and create affordability problems for millions of Americans purchasing coverage in the individual health insurance market,» Donaldson said.

In the same manner, you can expand the insurance policy to include health and life insurance coverage, to handle cases of worst situations.

In such circumstances, pediatricians can be powerful advocates for expanded insurance coverage for childhood mental health services, even when they do not provide those services themselves.73

a.) Ensure a wide range of culturally appropriate, evidence - based parent support and education services are available and easily accessible throughout the state for all types of families beginning prenatally; b.) Build a well - trained and highly qualified infant - toddler workforce across disciplines; c.) Engage families in identifying parent support and education needs; d.) Expand and develop initiatives to encourage breastfeeding; e.) Complete the process to develop a Parent Guide for the New Jersey Birth to Three Learning Standards; and f.) Improve health insurance coverage for parent education and mental health services.

New Jersey and Rhode Island expanded existing requirements for infertility coverage in private health insurance plans.

Flake's congressional voting record is problematic, and includes support for an amendment to the Affordable Care Act to prohibit abortion coverage, support for defunding Planned Parenthood, and a vote against expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Iowa and Missouri both ended their joint federal - state Medicaid programs that expanded eligibility specifically for family planning services to individuals otherwise ineligible for «full - benefit» Medicaid health insurance coverage.

The rule proposes to expand health insurance options available to those individuals, which includes real estate professionals — the majority of whom are independent contractors and typically do not have access to employer - provided health insurance coverage.

On health care, the president said 9 million people have obtained health insurance, both through private companies and expanded Medicaid coverage, and 3 million children have been added to their parents» policies.

This structure provides a less expensive way for hospitals to expand market coverage, while in turn allowing them to procure more attractive reimbursement contracts with health insurance providers.

Methodology: GOBankingRates surveyed all 50 states, analyzing eight data points that served as determining factors in the ranking: (1) median household income, sourced from the Census Bureau in 2015 dollars; (2) median home listing price as of June 2017, sourced from Zillow; (3) food spending, using the grocery index sourced from Missouri Economic Research and Information Center and multiplying it against the average amount spent on food from the BLS consumer spending survey from July 2015 - July 2016; (4) employee health insurance premium contribution, sourced from the Commonwealth Fund; (5) annual child care costs for an infant and a 4 - year - old, sourced from Child Care Aware of America; (6) whether the state offers paid time - off for family leave; (7) whether the state has expanded the earned - income Tax Credit at the state level; (8) whether the state expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act.