Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Release: 2012-07-28
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1478326905
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Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) pdf
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The private health insurance provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, ACA, as amended) include market reforms that impose requirements on private health insurance plans. Such reforms relate to the offer, issuance, generosity, and pricing of health plans, among other requirements. ACA’s market reforms largely focus on the individual and small group health insurance markets, and in this report the reforms have been grouped by effective dates: “immediate” market reforms that become effective prior to the full implementation date of ACA, and reforms that become effective on the full implementation date (January 1, 2014). ACA requires implementation of a number of reforms prior to its full implementation date (i.e., prior to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014). “Immediate” reforms include a process to review unreasonable rate increases; an Internet portal to assist consumers in identifying coverage options; prohibition on lifetime l Download Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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American Health Care: Realities, Rights, and Reforms Reviews

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Release: 1988-03-03
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195052714
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American Health Care pdf
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Is our present health care system biased against people with limited education and income? Does every American have a moral right to health care? If so, what kinds of care and how much? In a provocative look at American health care delivery, Charles J. Dougherty considers these and many other questions. His book fills an important niche in contemporary medical ethics and public health literature by combining a description and analysis of the American health care system--as it actually operates today--with an assessment of recent philosophical writings on justice. In the first section, Dougherty describes inequalities in health care delivery to blacks, the poor, and the less educated. He then reviews the philosophical theories of utilitarianism, egalitarianism, contractarianism, and libertarianism; applies them to health care issues; and argues for a moral right to health care. He considers available policy alternatives, concluding that the empirical data and our understanding of Download American Health Care for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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