Friday, March 23, 2012

Happy 2nd Birthday, Affordable Care Act


Some of the benefits we've already seen:
Twenty million women have received preventive services like mammograms and Pap smears without having to pony up co-pays.

Expand that to the whole population, and 54 million Americans got preventative services without copays, services that do save lives.
More than 2.5 million young people have insurance, by being able to stay on their parents' plans until they are 26.
Nearly four million seniors saved almost $2.16 billion through discounts for their prescription medications in 2011.
The pre-existing insurance plan (PCIP) has extended insurance to 50,000 formerly uninsured and uninsurable people with pre-existing conditions. Link

And the Republicans in Congress and running for President want to get rid of every single one of these benefits.


3 comments:

Eric Haas said...

The list of benefits has a weird dotted background that makes it near impossible to read!

Ipecac said...

Whoa! That wasn't there before. I'll see if I can fix it.

Eric Haas said...

It’s okay now.