Benefits of Health Insurance Overhaul

Benefits of Health Insurance Overhaul The Senate passed its description of a health overhaul on Christmas Eve; most of the debate has paying attention on the politics of the effort. By now, many people have elapsed if they ever knew what the bill would... More

Benefits of Health Insurance Overhaul The Senate passed its description of a health overhaul on Christmas Eve; most of the debate has paying attention on the politics of the effort. By now, many people have elapsed if they ever knew what the bill would really do. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate-passed bill would expand coverage to roughly 30 million of the 46 million people in the U. S. who lack health insurance. Most of the remaining uninsured would be undocumented immigrants, who would be ineligible for benefits under the bill. Insurance Mandates One of the most popular things the bill would do is ban insurance companies from excluding people or raising their rates, because they have what s known as a pre-existing medical condition. But in exchange for getting insurance companies to agree to accept everyone, the insurance companies need more healthy people to be covered to help spread the risk. So the bill does something that s a lot more controversial Less