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Expanding Coverage for Young Adults

HHS is working with major insurers to expand the opportunity for young adults to get health coverage earlier than the new law requires.

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Health Insurance Reform and You

AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen and other health experts from HHS took your questions in a live online chat about how reform will benefit Seniors.

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Next up: Protecting consumers through stronger insurance company oversight. Submit your questions to healthreform@hhs.gov. Watch live at www.hhs.gov/live.

 

Join Nancy-Ann DeParle this Thursday April 15 at 4:00 pm EDT
Health Security and Your Family

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, joined HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a Q&A about how the new law will increase your health security and what it means for you and your family.

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Reinsurance Program for Early Retirees
Reinsurance Program for Early Retirees

For millions of Americans ages 55-64, retiring early also means giving up their health security. Fewer and fewer employers provide coverage for these early retirees. But thanks to the new health insurance reform law, help is on the way. Starting in about three months, a new retiree reinsurance program will bring support for needed employer-based coverage for retirees.

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Eliminating Obstacles to the Care Women Need

The old rules governing our health insurance market hurt families across the country, and women in particular suffered in a system that allowed discrimination and failed to provide affordable coverage options for all Americans. Consider Jody Miller’s experience...   Read more...

Actuary Report Reaffirms that Affordable Care Act will Strengthen Medicare, Extend Coverage to Millions of Americans

Yesterday, the Office of the Actuary released an analysis of the new health insurance reform law.   Read more...

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Join the Discussion

Take Part in Our Weekly Web Chats on Health Reform Implementation.

Next chat: Friday, April 29 we will discuss how the Affordable Health Care Act protects consumers through stronger insurance company oversight.

For an archive of previous web chats to watch on demand, visit our YouTube page.

Web Chats will be broadcast live at: www.hhs.gov/live

Ask a Question

We will try to get to as many of them as we can during the web chat and answer more via the Your Questions Answered section here on the website.

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