Healthcare Gov News
ObamaCare Repeal was Vetoed, President wagged his finger at GOP
The first ObamaCare repeal bill was vetoed by Obama which was supposed to successfully pass in the senate. This bill had included some measures to defund Planned Parenthood. The ACA would have been repealed and it would have defunded the Planned Parenthood, the “Restoring Americans” Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act would have done this. Instead of the GOP doing something useful as the President wags his finger at the GOP. Tax payer dollars were wasted in this effort to repeal Planned Parenthood again as well as the ACA 50 something....
read moreHealth Insurance and Managed Care Plans
Managed care health plans are a crucial part of the US healthcare industry which are meant to cut costs of providing quality services. If you have healthcare through your employer, you are probably enrolled in some form of a managed care plan. The type of plan you have will impact how you access healthcare and what you may have to pay out of pocket. In general, managed care plans cover a variety of services including preventive care and immunizations, regular checkups, diagnosis of illness and its treatment (hospital care, necessary tests,...
read moreObamacare Coverage Of Ambulance Transportation And Air-Transport
Are My Ambulance Services Covered By Medicare/Obamacare/Affordable Care Act? When it is determined that any other type of transport to a critical-access health facility, a hospital, or a nursing facility for skilled medically-necessary services would threaten the life of the beneficiary, Medicare/Obamacare covers the costs of ambulance transportation. It may also pay for emergency air-transport, when ground-transportation can not be obtained. This coverage only extends to the nearest healthcare facility capable of providing the needed care....
read moreThe Affordable Care Act, (aka, Obamacare), Is Credited With An Increase In Detection Of Cervical Cancer.
According to the New York Times, a recent study indicates that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is effecting, significantly, the diagnosis of cervical cancer, in its’ early-stages, in women aged twenty-six and younger. Using a hospital registry that contains seventy percent of the United States cases of cervical cancer, American Cancer Society researchers cross-referenced the diagnoses of females with cervical cancer before the 2010 introduction of the Affordable Care Act and after, and found an increase in early detection of the...
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