The ultimate Obamacare handbook
Subtitle: a definitive guide to the benefits, rights, responsibilities, and potential pitfalls of the affordable care act
By: Kimberly Amadeo
Edition: 2015-2016 edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781634505611
Subjects: Medical care; Medical policy; Health care reform; Handbooks, manuals
Description: "Americans have been barraged with fifteen times more negative than positive news about Obamacare. As a result, 40 percent of the people who dislike it actually qualified for insurance subsidies, and didn't realize it. These hardworking, middle-class families need facts, not opinions, to get all the benefits they deserve. The Affordable Healthcare Handbook presents these facts based on extensive research done using credible sources and real-life interviews with people who have personally been helped by the Affordable Healthcare Act. The manual explains basics, like: How the parts of Obamacare work together. Real-life stories describing people who have already been helped. How health insurance works. Step-by-step guides to sign up for insurance using the online exchanges. Definitions of all the key terms. This book shows how Obamacare has quietly improved healthcare since 2010. For example, free preventive care for 100 million health insurance and Medicare recipients has already lowered costs. That is because they get their conditions treated before they need to use expensive emergency room services. This handbook makes the Affordable Healthcare Act accessible to millions of Americans who want a reliable and useful guide to Obamacare. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Obamacare?; title: Why health-care reform was Obama's top priority; title: Three ways the ACA modernizes health care and lowers costs; title: The difference between health care and health insurance; title: The ACA reforms health insurance; title: Buy the best health insurance for you; title: Obamacare subsidies; title: Mandatory coverage lowers costs; title: Who else benefits?; title: Who pays for Obamacare?; title: Conclusion; title: How to speak Obamacare: key words and phrases you need to know.