The New Health Care Law: Consumer Resource

C|M|law Library would like to share a great resource from Kaiser Health News (KHN).

This is a consumer oriented primer on parts of the health care reform law already up and running, what’s to come, and ways that provisions could still be altered.  Check it out by clicking here.

The  entire C|M|Law community will be effected by the Affordable Care Act.  This resource helps to answer a number of questions that faculty, staff and students may have about the new law.

The KHN primer answers questions like:

• I don’t have health insurance. Under the law, will I have to buy it and what happens if I don’t?

• I get my health coverage at work and want to keep my current plan. Will I be able to do that? How will my plan be affected by the health law?
• What other parts of the law are now in place?
• I want health insurance but I can’t afford it. What will I do?
• What if I make too much money for Medicaid but still can’t afford to buy insurance?
• Will I have to pay more for my health care because of the law?

Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.