Key features:
The health care law offers clear choices for consumers and provides new ways to hold insurance companies accountable. The most important parts of the law are broken into groups below. We’ll highlight new features of the law here as they roll out between now and 2014.
- Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and Uniform Glossary
- Consumer Assistance Program
- Appealing Health Plan Decisions
- Preventive Care
- Patient’s Bill of Rights
- Children’s Pre-Existing Conditions
- Doctor Choice & ER Access
- Grandfathered Health Plans
- Curbing Insurance Cancellations
- Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP)
- Young Adult Coverage
- Affordable Insurance Exchanges
- CO-OP Insurance Plans
- Value for Your Premium Dollar
- Lifetime and Annual Limits
- Flexible Spending Account Changes
- Rate Review
- Medicare Preventive Services
- Medicare Drug Discounts
- $250 “Donut Hole” Rebate (2010)
- Strengthening Medicare
If you need help dealing with your insurance, finding insurance, or getting answers to questions about how the health care system works, visit the Get Help Using Insurance section. Use our interactive FAQ tool at answers.healthcare.gov to find answers to your questions about health care and insurance.