ACA Affordable Care Act.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains nine titles, each addressing an essential component of reform:

1. Quality, affordable health care for all Americans

2.  The role of public programs

3. Improving the quality and efficiency of health care

4. Prevention of chronic disease and improving public health

5. Health care workforce

6. Transparency and program integrity

7. Improving access to innovative medical therapies

8. Community living assistance services and supports

9.  Revenue provisions

Most people call this Obama Care.  I is really called the Affordable Care Act.

There are nine sections and I would like to point out some of the mandates in two of them.

Section one. Quality affordable health care for all Americans.

 Eliminate lifetime and unreasonable annual limits on benefits

 Prohibit rescissions of health insurance policies

 Provide assistance for those who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition

 Require coverage of preventive services and immunizations

 Extend dependant coverage up to age 26

 Develop uniform coverage documents so consumers can make apples-to-apples comparisons when shopping for health insurance

 Cap insurance company non-medical, administrative expenditures

 Ensure consumers have access to an effective appeals process and provide consumer a place to turn for assistance navigating the appeals process and accessing their coverage

 Create a temporary re-insurance program to support coverage for early retirees

 Establish an internet portal to assist Americans in identifying coverage options

 Facilitate administrative simplification to lower health system costs.

Section 4   Prevention of chronic disease and improving public health.

 For the operation and development of School-Based Health Clinics.

 For an oral healthcare prevention education campaign.

 To provide Medicare coverage – with no co-payments or deductibles – for an annual wellness visit and development of a personalized prevention plan.

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 To waive coinsurance requirements and deductibles for most preventive services, so that Medicare will cover 100 percent of the costs.

 To authorize the HHS Secretary to modify coverage of any Medicare-covered preventive service to be consistent with U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations.

 To provide States with an enhanced match if the State Medicaid program covers: (1) any clinical preventive service recommended with a grade of A or B by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and (2) adult immunizations recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without cost sharing.

 To require Medicaid coverage for counseling and pharmacotherapy to pregnant women for cessation of tobacco use.

 To award grants to states to provide incentives for Medicaid beneficiaries to participate in programs providing incentives for healthy lifestyles.

I can not find any parts of this act that would hurt health care of Americans. Can you?