Mammograms: $0. Birth control: $0. Preventive care... at no extra cost: Priceless.

[Tx4obama]

The White House Verified account ?@WhiteHouse

Mammograms: $0. Birth control: $0. Preventive care you need to stay healthy at no extra cost: Priceless

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/393444374446485504/photo/1

[dkf]

1. They just stick it in your premium.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. I can't afford my allergy shots

Not this year, and definitely not next year. The plan I had is gone in 2014. I just selected my plan and basically it is unusable. A big thank you for 5 years of social service work. Our gov is touting about helping his people while his employees go broke and sick.

[dkf]

5. Guest on CNBC mentioned this loophole to keep insurance for 1 more year...

Insurers see way to dodge federal healthcare law next year

Insurers see way to dodge federal healthcare law next year
A little-known loophole in President Obama's landmark legislation enables health insurers to extend existing policies for nearly all of 2014.
April 02, 2013|By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times

A new fight is brewing over health insurance companies letting millions of Americans renew their current coverage for another year — and thereby avoid changes under the federal healthcare law.

That may offer a short-term benefit for certain consumers and shield some of those individual policyholders from potentially steep rate increases. But critics say this maneuver could undermine government efforts to remake the insurance market next year and keep premiums affordable overall.

At issue is a little-known loophole in President Obama's landmark legislation that enables health insurers to extend existing policies for nearly all of 2014. This runs contrary to the widespread belief that all health insurance must immediately comply with new federal rules starting Jan. 1, when most provisions of the law take effect.

"Insurers are onto this, and the big question is how many will try to game the system," said Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a law professor and health policy expert at Washington and Lee University.

Some of the nation's biggest health insurers are looking to take advantage of this delay, and Arkansas officials are encouraging companies to do this by resetting customers' renewal dates for the end of December. There's also concern that some insurers and agents could rush to sell more individual policies before year-end so they could be extended in 2014.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/02/business/la-fi-health-renewal-loophole-20130402

[pnwmom]

9. Did any of the plans cover allergy shots? If you got into a car accident

or developed a serious illness, would your plan still be unusable?

Are you one of these people who never intend to need expensive medical care?

[BluegrassStateBlues]

2. K&R

[Freddie]

4. Had my annual OB checkup last nite

Handed the receptionist my insurance card and a check for the copay. She handed the check back. Now if only they could make the exam more pleasant...

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. This is going to save lives

Meanwhile, the House GOP and Obama haters run around looking for coding glitches.

[FSogol]

7. +1 N/T

[ProSense]

8. New Front in the Fight With Infant Mortality

New Front in the Fight With Infant Mortality

By EDUARDO PORTER

As the health care bill that was to become known as Obamacare was making its way through Congress in 2009, Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, sought to block the requirement that health insurers cover a minimum set of health benefits determined by the federal government...Kyl’s proposed amendment embodied the conservative view: The Affordable Care Act that passed Congress in 2010 is an unacceptable intrusion into the private decisions of American families and businesses.

The Senate Finance Committee, by a vote of 14 to 9, rejected the amendment, opting for a different approach that could change, in subtle but profound ways, the nature of the American social contract.

Pregnant women, across the country and anywhere along the income spectrum, will for the first time have guaranteed access to health insurance offering a minimum standard of care that will help keep their babies alive.

The benefit may seem narrow. But it offers the best opportunity in a generation to tackle one of the United States’ most notorious stigmas: an intractably high infant mortality rate that hardly fits one of the richest, most technologically advanced nations on earth. If it succeeds, it could provide Americans with an alternative view of how government can serve society.

- more -

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/business/health-law-is-a-new-front-in-the-fight-against-infant-mortality.html