Health Reform Implementation - Insurance Market Reforms
Health reform adopted broad-reaching reforms in insurance industry practices, including the practice of denying people coverage because they are sick, charging different premiums for people based on their health status, and establishing annual or lifetime benefit limits.CCF Resources
- Essential Health Benefits Resource List
- September 23 Health Care Reforms: Making Insurance Work for Children and Families
Implementation Activities
- Affordable Care Act Implementation FAQs - "Grandfathered" Health Plans, updated October 29, 2010 (HTML)
- New Affordable Care Act Grants to Help Put Patients in Control of Their Health Care, October 19, 2010 (HTML)
- Questions and Answers on Enrollment of Children Under 19 Under the New Policy That Prohibits Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions, updated October 13, 2010(HTML)
- Secretary Sebelius Letter to the NAIC on Improving Coverage for Children with Pre-Existing Conditions, October 13, 2010
- Secretary Sebelius Letter to AHIP on Child-Only Policies, September 24, 2010
- Secretary Sebelius Letter to Congress on Implementation, September 23, 2010
- Fact Sheet: The Six Month Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, September 22, 2010 (HTML)
- Fact Sheet - The Affordable Care Act's New Patient's Bill of Rights, June 22, 2010 (HTML)
- Fact Sheet - Temporary High Risk Pool Program (HTML)
- Secretary Sebelius on Growing List of Insurers That Will Provide Coverage for Young Adults Under Age 26, April 20, 2010 (HTML)
- Statement
from Secretary Sebelius on Expedited Efforts By HHS To Work With
Insurers to Voluntarily Provide Coverage for Graduating College Seniors
and Young Adults under Age Twenty-Six in Advance of September Start
Date in New Law, April 19, 2010 (HTML)
- Sebelius Continues Work to Implement Health Reform, Announces First Steps to Establish Temporary High Risk Pool Program, April 2, 2010 (HTML)
- HHS Secretary Sebelius Letter to America's Health Insurance Plans, March 29, 2010