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Health Care Reform Affordable Care Act

Health Care Reform Affordable Care Act. Robert Morris MS, MPH Vice President Health Initiatives American Cancer Society. WHY HEALTH CARE REFORM The lack of adequate and affordable health insurance has serious consequences for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke patients

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Health Care Reform Affordable Care Act

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  1. Health Care ReformAffordable Care Act Robert Morris MS, MPH Vice President Health Initiatives American Cancer Society

  2. WHY HEALTH CARE REFORM • The lack of adequate and affordable health insurance has serious consequences for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke patients and survivors. • Individuals without health insurance are less likely to receive • preventative treatment or early detection screenings and are more • likely to delay treatment. • For example, in a 2010 ACS poll of individuals under age 65 who • Have cancer or a history of cancer, 34 percent reported delaying • care because of cost in the past 12 months. AMERICAN CANCER • SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK, A National Poll: Facing Cancer • in the Health Care System (2010). More specifically, 29 • percent delayed needed health care, 19 percent delayed getting • a recommended cancer test or treatment, and 22 percent delayed • a routine cancer check-up.

  3. WHY HEALTH CARE REFORM • At every level of education, individuals with health insurance are • about twice as likely as those without it to have access to key cancer • early detection procedures, such as mammography or colorectal screenings. • Elizabeth Ward, et al., Association of Insurance with Cancer Care • Utilization and Outcomes,58 CANCER J. FOR CLINICIANS 9 (2008).

  4. The Politics of Health Care

  5. The Political Landscape

  6. Affordable Care Act Protecting Provisions for Cancer Patients and their Families Banning pre-existing condition exclusions Eliminating annual and lifetime benefit limits Guaranteeing health coverage to all applicants Prohibiting insurers from charging people more for coverage because of their health status Refocusing the health care system on disease prevention and early detection Exchanges

  7. Health Insurance Coverage - 2014 Total Nonelderly Population = 282 million SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office, March 20, 2010

  8. Health Reform by the Numbers, 2010-2019 SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office, 2010.

  9. Right Now…. • Young adults can now stay on their parent’s health plan up to • age 26. • Some small businesses with fewer than 25 employees can • get help paying for the cost of providing health insurance. • Insurance companies can’t deny health coverage to kids with • pre-existing conditions. • Adults who have been uninsured for at least 6 months and have been • denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition may now get coverage.

  10. Right Now…. • Insurance companies can’t place dollar limits • on the health care they cover in your lifetime • Those in Medicare can get preventive services • and screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, at no cost to them. • New health plans must offer preventive and • screening services, such as mammograms and • colonoscopies, at no cost to the patient.

  11. Views On Health Reform Remain Divided As you may know, a health reform bill was signed into law early last year. Given what you know about the health reform law, do you have a generally favorable or generally unfavorable opinion of it? Favorable Unfavorable Don’t know/Refused ACA signed into law on March 23, 2010 2010 2011 Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Polls

  12. About Half Remain Confused About ACA; Three In Ten Enthusiastic Or Angry Percent who say that each of the following describes their feelings about the health reform law: CONFUSED 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 ENTHUSIASTIC ANGRY Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Polls

  13. Favorability of the ACA Among Key Subgroups Percent who say they have a favorable opinion of the health reform law: BY AGE BY RACE/ETHNICITY 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 BY INSURANCE STATUS (<65) BY INCOME Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Polls

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