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Title: Health Reform: Iowans to See Benefits,

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Hundreds of thousands of Iowans will find their health care situation drastically improved, thanks to the passage and enactment of health reform. The bill takes major steps toward extending health insurance to all Americans using a number of mechanisms. It creates a regulated marketplace for purchasing insurance called a health insurance exchange, provides subsidies to help low- and middle-income earners buy insurance, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits privately purchased health insurance from excluding, denying or rescinding coverage based on pre-existing conditions. The sum effect of these efforts would reduce the United States’ uninsured population by about 32 million and reduce the federal deficit by $124 billion between now and 2019.1 Using available data, this paper will provide estimates of how many Iowans would . . .

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Authors: Cannon, Andrew

Publisher: Iowa Policy Project

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Poverty and Welfare

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