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The Changing Health Care Landscape

A User's Guide to Health Care Reform

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Ten Things You Need to Know About the New Law

 

 

If You’re Now on Medicare

If you are self-employed or working in a small business, buying insurance for yourself and your family, you are among those that the new law helps the most. More

If You Receive Employer Insurance

You will not be forced into a “government” plan. But you will have new protections and options, and other changes might affect you. More

Uninsured or Buying Your Own Insurance

If you are self-employed or working in a small business, buying insurance for yourself and your family, you are among those that the new law helps the most. More

If You Run a Small Business or Work for One

About 80 percent of American businesses employ fewer than 10 workers, and less than half of these firms offer health insurance. More

If You Have a Moderate or Low Income

No one knows yet how much private health plans will charge to cover people who purchase policies through the state insurance exchange. More

Just Where Are Those Savings Coming From?

The new health reform law wrings $390 billion in savings from Medicare over the next decade to help pay for health care reforms. More

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