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Released: July 01, 2010
Healthcare site highlights options
Source: N.C.Aizenman, Washington Post (Free Registration)
Maybe you are a 21-year-old woman who has just graduated from college in Ohio and haven’t found a job yet. Or you are a 49-year-old unemployed man with high blood pressure who lives in West Virginia. How would you know what insurance options you have under the new health-care law?
A Web site that the Obama administration unveiled Wednesday aims to give everyone the full range of public and private health insurance plans available to them based on their individual circumstances.
Users of the site—HealthCare.gov—will not need to divulge personal information such as their name, address or income. Instead, the site asks a series of questions including age, Zip code, job status and degree of difficulty affording health insurance, then uses a person’s answers to produce a detailed list of potential coverage options from among 5,500 private plans as well as the full array of federal and state programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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