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Coverage and Access: Expanding Benefits to More Americans
Pages 92-95

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From page 92...
... Meanwhile, increasing health care costs have constrained access to health care, especially for preventive services that have the potential to reduce overall health care spending. Government programs have countered these negative trends, but many people remain uninsured and lack ready access to health care, including undocumented immigrants and people of limited financial means.
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From page 93...
... began providing federal Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Act in 1996 extended the responsibility of health matching funds to states to provide health coverage Modernization Act of 2003 added an optional insurance coverage to benefit employees between to children in families with incomes too high to prescription drug benefit known as Part D jobs and helped protect patients from waste and qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private fraud related to health insurance.
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From page 94...
... Deficiencies in this model are clear, with the United States ranking highest in the world on health care spending yet lowest on health performance indicators among comparable nations. In recent iStock® 1996 years, and especially after the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Including Mental Health as Part Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has of Whole-Person Health worked to address this problem by shifting toward The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 barred value-based care, in which financial incentives are separate annual and lifetime limits on coverage offered to physicians, hospitals, medical groups, for the treatment of mental disorders other and other health care providers for meeting than addictions.
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From page 95...
... All state marketplaces can be conveniently accessed through the central location of HealthCare.gov. Health insurance and access to health care have long been politically contentious issues, with proposed reforms ranging from modifications of the current system to single-payer systems.
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