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Essential health benefits : balancing coverage and cost / Cheryl Ulmer [and others], editors ; Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

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Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Ulmer, Cheryl, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans, and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction -- Approaches to determining covered benefits and benefit design -- Policy foundations and criteria for the EHB [Essential Health Benefits] -- Resolving ACA [Affordable Care Act] intent -- Defining the EHB -- Public deliberation -- Program monitoring and research -- Allowance for state innovation -- Updating the EHB.
Summary
"In 2010, an estimated 50 million people were uninsured in the United States. A portion of the uninsured reflects unemployment rates; however, this rate is primarily a reflection of the fact that when most health plans meet an individual's needs, most times, those health plans are not affordable. Research shows that people without health insurance are more likely to experience financial burdens associated with the utilization of health care services. But even among the insured, underinsurance has emerged as a barrier to care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made the most comprehensive changes to the provision of health insurance since the development of Medicare and Medicaid by requiring all Americans to have health insurance by 2016. An estimated 30 million individuals who would otherwise be uninsured are expected to obtain insurance through the private health insurance market or state expansion of Medicaid programs. The success of the ACA depends on the design of the essential health benefits (EHB) package and its affordability."--Publisher's description
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ISBN
9780309219143 (electronic bk.)
0309219140 (electronic bk.)
9780309219150 (electronic bk.)
0309219159 (electronic bk.)
1280123273
9781280123276
9786613527134
6613527130
9780309219143
0309219140
0309219175
9780309219174
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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