Obamacare legislation amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply a tax penalty for individuals who cannot prove that they are covered by qualifying health insurance.
It also establishes a Medical Advisory Council to determine the “amount, duration, and scope” of the items and services that must be included as “essential health care benefits” in a plan that qualifies for subsidies.
Best Healthcare Statistics
The costs are now 611 billion dollars with total coverage – whatever that means.
Critics say the revamped Kennedy Health Care “Reform” Plan does not account for Medicaid coverage – which is crushing state budgets.
Additional provisions include:
- Expand Medicaid to 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
- Require health insurers to accept every employer and individual in the state for coverage.
- Require health insurance providers to report to the government how premiums are spent.
- Ban annual or lifetime limits on coverage.
- Establish committee boards, called Affordable Health Benefit Gateways, in each state to certify and inform residents about insurance plans.
- Extend dependent coverage so citizens may be covered on their parents’ insurance until they are 26 years old.