The HHS on How Health Insurance Reform can Help Women with Breast Cancer
Friday Oct 23, 2009The HHS on How Health Insurance Reform can Help Women with Breast Cancer in Politics and Legislation
We don’t really have to tell you that cancer and health
insurance don’t really get along all too well.
These days, Americans with serious pre-existing health conditions, such as breast cancer, definitely have trouble finding coverage.
In light of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services released a report highlighting the benefits that health reform will have for women with breast cancer.
The report touts different aspects of the current health reform bill, including out-of-pocket cost limits, access to health insurance exchanges for comparison shopping and the eventual elimination of pre-existing condition exclusions.
In addition to the health insurance side of things, the HHS says health reform will also help improve care quality for breast cancer patients.
We thought it was a pretty good (and timely) way to promote the health reform bill’s passage through Congress.
Even though it’s not really a scientific report, you can see the full text of it here: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/breastcancer/index.html.
