The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions that are expected to significantly improve women's health. The Affordable Care Act improves coverage for important preventive services and maternity care, promotes higher quality care for older women, and ends the gender discrimination that requires women to pay more for the same insurance coverage as men.
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Young Adults Are Particularly Likely to Gain Stable Health Insurance Coverage as a Result of the Affordable Care Act
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Fifty-Four Million Additional Americans Are Receiving Preventive Services Without Cost-Sharing Under The Affordable Care Act
ASPE Issue Brief, Report
The Cost of Covering Contraceptives through Health Insurance
This brief reviews the literature on the cost of contraceptive coverage in private and public health insurance programs. This brief was written by John Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Director of Special Initiatives and Pricing in the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sherry Glied, Ph.D., Assistant
ASPE Issue Brief, Report
Medicare Beneficiary Savings and the Affordable Care Act
This Issue Brief provides estimates of Medicare Parts A, B, and D savings from the Affordable Care Act to seniors and people living with disabilities enrolled in traditional Medicare.
Program Evaluation
Children's Health Insurance Program: An Evaluation (1997 - 2010)
By: Sheila Hoag, Mary Harrington, Cara Orfield, Victoria Peebles, Kimberly Smith, Adam Swinburn, Matthew Hodges, Kenneth Finegold, ASPE, Sean Orzol, Wilma Robinson, ASPE Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Project Director: Mary Harrington, Mathematica
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Essential Health Benefits: Individual Market Coverage
The Affordable Care Act identified ten categories of services and items included in essential health benefits (EHBs). All ten categories of services and items must be covered by insurance offered in the individual and small group markets as of January 1, 2014.
Report
Variation and Trends in Medigap Premiums
This report examines the variation in Medigap premiums, recent trends in premium growth and policies that experience relatively high premium growth. The report also compares the premium growth over different segments of the entire time period studied, and to changes in enrollment in both Medigap policies and the Medicare Advantage Program. [38 PDF pages]
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2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act
Results released December 14, 2011, by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrate that the extension of dependent coverage up to age 26 has increased the number of young adults with health insurance, by even more than prior analyses had suggested.