Normangee Star

By: Madeline Patrick

Under the ACA, health plans sold to individuals and small groups (employers with 50 or fewer employees) must include 10 essential benefits: emergency services, habilitative and rehabilitative services, inpatient care, outpatient care, maternity and newborn care, mental health and addiction treatment, lab tests, preventive care, prescriptions, and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.

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“We’ve just achieved a historic level in coverage of kids”, [Joan Alker of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families] says, referring to a new report finding that more than 93 percent of eligible USA children now have health insurance under CHIP. The law did so by offering tax credits for private insurance and by expanding the Medicaid program, which offers government-sponsored insurance to low-income people.

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