Sentences with phrase «in affordable care»

On Monday, February 10, 2014, the Obama administration announced a delay in the Affordable Care Act employer mandate for firms with 50 to 99 full time employees.

One major issue for the child welfare field will be funding for home - visitation programs like the Nurse - Family Partnership that is included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

These policy components include a requirement in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that states maintain their CHIP eligibility and enrollment policies through 2019, a scheduled increase in the federal matching rate effective October 1, 2015, and $ 40 million dollars in grants for outreach and enrollment efforts.

The Contraceptive CHOICE Study is released and demonstrates that access to no - copay birth control — as is outlined in the Affordable Care Act — leads to significantly lowered unintended pregnancy and abortion rates.

«While we celebrate the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the important protections in the Affordable Care Act,» said Lawson, «the real credit for this breakthrough for women's health belongs to those who passed it.

Washington, DC — Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, issued the following statement in response to a Contraceptive CHOICE Study finding that access to no co-pay birth control — as is outlined in the Affordable Care Act — leads to significantly lowered abortion rates.

The open enrollment period to sign up for 2015 health insurance in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace ended on February 15, 2015.

The birth control coverage benefit is also one of the most popular provisions in the Affordable Care Act, even among Catholics, whose bishops oppose birth control.

But Congress has recently failed to renew a critical funding source for them: the Community Health Center Fund, which was authorized in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Some health plans don't have to follow all of the health care reform rules found in the Affordable Care Act.

Short term health insurance plans provide limited coverage, meaning it does not typically provide coverage for pre-existing conditions, preventative checkups, maternity, mental health, and other coverage included in Affordable Care Act plans.

In Affordable Care Act plans sold on marketplaces, the 2016 limits are $ 6,850 for an individual and $ 13,700 for a family, but yours may be different if you have an employer - sponsored policy.

Section 1302 (c)(4) of the Affordable Care Act directs the Secretary to determine an annual premium adjustment percentage, which is used to set the rate of increase for three parameters detailed in the Affordable Care Act: the maximum annual limitation on cost sharing (defined at § 156.130 (a)-RRB-, the required contribution percentage by individuals for minimum essential health coverage the Secretary may use to determine eligibility for hardship exemptions under section 5000A of the Code, and the assessable payment amounts under section 4980H (a) and (b) of the Code (finalized at 26 CFR 54.4980 H in the «Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage,» published in the February 12, 2014 Federal Register (79 FR 8544)-RRB-.

Some people who now obtain coverage in the Affordable Care Act marketplace could instead join association health plans.

Short - term plans don't have to comply with all of the consumer protection mandates in the Affordable Care Act.

By law, all health insurance plans have to cover the 10 essential health benefits outlined in the Affordable Care Act.

The central issue in that case was whether a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which required employers to provide employees with health coverage for contraception, infringed on Hobby Lobby's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits Congress from enacting a law that burdens a person's exercise of their religion.

The one thing that's certain is that there will be changes in the Affordable Care Act.

However, the company's plans still meet the minimum standards set out in the Affordable Care Act.

A lot of people have looked at this and there's nothing in the Affordable Care Act that would impact an employer - sponsored plan, other than making sure that the employer - sponsored plan is actually providing a certain basic level of coverage.

The state is the first to implement such a law, a bold move at a time when many federal and state politicians throughout the country are taking action to restrict women's access to contraception, such as defunding Planned Parenthood — a major provider a family planning health care services in the U.S. — and attempting to block a provision in the Affordable Care Act that mandates health insurance companies cover the cost of contraceptives.

The researchers point to provisions in the Affordable Care Act to decrease Part D cost - sharing that are based on the Congressional Budget Office's prediction that Medicare's nondrug spending will be reduced by $ 35 billion through cost savings in medical services, primarily decreases in hospitalization.

The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

«We have a lot of control over this, through policies in the Affordable Care Act and Medicare and Medicaid.

The researchers examine the pros and cons of the hospital readmissions reduction policy in the Affordable Care Act as an example of similar CMS initiatives.

she asks, referring to cuts in future Medicare spending in the Affordable Care Act.

He voted to repeal (the medical device tax, which was included in the Affordable Care Act) when he knew it wasn't going anywhere — that Reid wasn't going to take up any of the repeals.

Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts chain, challenged a provision in the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to offer birth control coverage in employee health insurance plans.

And Cuomo also issued orders to shore up the state's continuation of the insurance protections in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in the event it is repealed by the Republican led Congress.

«I recognize that the partisan divide over healthcare needs to be overcome if we are to truly fix what isn't working in the Affordable Care Act,» Faso says.

(CNN)-- The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday accused the panel's chairman of engaging in a «destructive political exercise» by launching a series of hearings on the road meant to highlight various flaws in the Affordable Care Act.

New York's health care system is bracing for big changes in the Affordable Care Act.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York state is moving to ensure several protections in the Affordable Care Act remain in place regardless of whether the Republican - led Congress votes to repeal it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

By the 2009 August recess, Obama and the Democratic Congress had enacted a sweeping economic stimulus, had confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and were in the midst of a health - care push that would culminate in the Affordable Care Act a few months later.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- New York state is moving to ensure several protections in the Affordable Care Act remain in place regardless of whether the Republican - led Congress votes to repeal it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

«It isn't perfect, and there are areas where I think we need continued reform, or even changes in the Affordable Care Act.

«The road forward is to work forward in a bipartisan way to change the parts that need fixing, and make sure that everyone has access to the good things in the affordable care act, and there are many,» said Maffei.

The latest government figures show enrollment in the Affordable Care Act is slightly down from last year.

By name, Cuomo specifically called out Reps. John Faso and Chris Collins, upstate Republicans who had backed a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would shift the Medicaid burden from county governments to the state.

Certain universal care goals are found in the Affordable Care Act, and we applaud those.

In a breaking story, the Obama administration is making an exemption in the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) that «will let people who lost coverage and are struggling to get a new plan sign up for [catastrophic] policies.»

National Republicans believe that in New York's 27th district, and across the country, a focus on the cuts to future Medicare spending embedded in the Affordable Care Act will inoculate their candidate from the attacks regarding the Ryan budget's changes to Medicare.

And Cuomo also issued orders to shore up the state's continuation of the insurance protections in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in the event it is repealed by the Republican - led Congress.

(Editorial, Jan. 3), you write that the organizations fighting the contraceptive requirement in the Affordable Care Act have a strong constitutional case.

Good news: many moms can now get their pumps for free or very low cost under their health insurance plans as a result of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (health reform).

To illustrate how difficult it is, I tried to find the actual text of the provisions covered by the law in the Affordable Care Act.

Also, with the advent of breast pumps and the pumping sites in workplaces mandated in the Affordable Care Act, mothers can now take breast milk home to their babies.

And former White House Faith - Based Office staffer Michael Wear suggested that the Obama administration helped by signing the Adoption Tax Credit in 2013, including maternal health supports in the Affordable Care Act, and expanding the child tax credit.

These wealthy people could fund a health care program that goes across the country and wipe out the need for Medicaid and the requirement for people to buy health insurance like in the Affordable Care Act.

Nothing in the affordable care act requires an individual citizen to do anything, it targets organizations and companies with employees.