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It’s been three years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, bringing health insurance coverage to millions of Americans who would otherwise be a single illness or accident away from financial ruin. And who wants to guess how conservative Republican Michele Bachmann celebrated? By spouting the same old false facts and hyperbole of course. More
What if you were forced to let your company know how much you weigh? How about how physically fit you are? What about your thigh measurements? More
The Obama administration issued a final rule Wednesday that mental health care is included in the “essential health benefits” that must be covered by most health insurance plans beginning. It’s a move that could bring mental health care access to an additional 32 million people in 2014, the administration says. More
Who knew one of the last bastions of paranoid, reactionary religious wingnuttery in corporate America was the discount craft-goods emporium known as Hobby Lobby? The retailer has announced it will stick it to the heathen health care law proponents by refusing to offer employees health insurance that covers emergency contraception. More
Starting yesterday, women who are insured and employed by non-religious employers who weren’t seeking exemption got a big boost in their health care coverage. August 1st marked the beginning of mandatory coverage of well-women visits, HPV screenings, and even no-cost birth control. But reading lists and trying to parse out government documents can still leave some health care information pretty hazy, so Planned Parenthood has released this very-helpful infographic to explain. More
August 1 is an exciting day for some of the millions of women who have struggled to pay for birth control and other women’s health care procedures and treatments. That’s because, under the Affordable Care Act, private insurers must begin offering critical preventative services like STI screening and counseling, annual visits, and contraception at no additional out-of-pocket fee for women, starting today. But the key word there is “some.” More
The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare in a five to four vote, ruling that the individual mandate (requiring that Americans buy insurance or pay a fine) is constitutional as a tax. The court’s opinions were divided (outlined in-depth here)—they also stipulated that states can’t be penalized for not participating in Medicaid expansion—and what its specific rulings on the Affordable Care Act will mean for Americans is still being parsed out. Here’s the Court’s own explanation, “In Plain English” (via SCOTUSblog) More
