A User’s Guide to Health Care Reform - AARP Bulletin

A User' s Guide to Health Care Reform

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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