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Affordable Care Act
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_Patients Bill of Rights
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) offers you several new protections that are known as the “Patients’ Bill of Rights.” This brief explains what those rights and protections are, and how they can help you.
Medicare's New Wellness Visit
The Affordable Care Act Improves Medicare by Emphasizing Prevention and Wellness
Provisions of the ACA
Impact in Michigan
Shaping Medicaid Managed Care Expansions to Better Serve Consumers
Health Reform Benefit Fact Sheets (per population)
Seniors
Women
Disabilities
Young Adults
Families
African Americans
Free Clinic approaches to the ACA
Health Reform Flowchart
Recommendations for FCOM
Kaiser Affordable Care Act Timeline
Implementation Timeline
The implementation timeline is an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years.
You can show or hide all the changes occurring in a year by clicking on that year. Click on a provision to get more information about it. Customize the timeline by checking and unchecking specific topics.
Kaiser Video
Confused about how the new health reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014. Learn more about how the health reform law will affect the health insurance coverage options for individuals, families and businesses with the interactive feature.
Illustrating Health Reform: How Health Insurance Coverage Will Work
Spanish Version of Illustrating Health Reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) offers you several new protections that are known as the “Patients’ Bill of Rights.” This brief explains what those rights and protections are, and how they can help you.
Medicare's New Wellness Visit
The Affordable Care Act Improves Medicare by Emphasizing Prevention and Wellness
Provisions of the ACA
Impact in Michigan
Shaping Medicaid Managed Care Expansions to Better Serve Consumers
Health Reform Benefit Fact Sheets (per population)
Seniors
Women
Disabilities
Young Adults
Families
African Americans
Free Clinic approaches to the ACA
Health Reform Flowchart
Recommendations for FCOM
Kaiser Affordable Care Act Timeline
Implementation Timeline
The implementation timeline is an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years.
You can show or hide all the changes occurring in a year by clicking on that year. Click on a provision to get more information about it. Customize the timeline by checking and unchecking specific topics.
Kaiser Video
Confused about how the new health reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014. Learn more about how the health reform law will affect the health insurance coverage options for individuals, families and businesses with the interactive feature.
Illustrating Health Reform: How Health Insurance Coverage Will Work
Spanish Version of Illustrating Health Reform
Government ResourcesLegislationKaiser Health
| News Articles
Health Care Reform News- The New York Times
Health and Medical Services- Chicago Tribune Reuters - Follow Healthcare Reform Government and Politics - Detroit Free Press CommentaryCheck out the blog, Health Care Reform in America, by Dr. Kenneth Fisher, nephrology consultant and medical director of the former Free Clinic of Kalamazoo. Dr. Fisher has written over forty scientific and medical policy articles. He has also been an insulin-requiring diabetic for the past forty-four years.
The Voice for Healthcare Consumers: Families USA |