HEALTH CARE BRIEFS ON THE NEW LAW: COST SHARING
by Frank Samuelson
Cost Sharing. The new Health Care Affordability Act aims to provide adequate affordable health insurance for all Americans. Like any insurance it depends on many insured people paying premiums into a pool of money that will cover unexpected and expensive costs due to accident or illness. We buy insurance on our homes and cars and hope we never need it, but we know it will protect us if we do. We all need health insurance because we never know if or when an accident or illness may require expensive, life saving care. That is why the new law requires everyone to buy insurance, and will help pay the premiums for those who can’t afford the full cost themselves.
–from Faithful Reform in Health Care
These brief summaries of benefits in the new health care law were prepared by Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) of the Quad Cities, based on research by Faithful Reform in Health Care
which represents many churches and other faith communities. (See the
list of members on their website.) Faithful Reform seeks to speak the
“whole truth” about health care issues instead of the many half truths
that abound. If you, or someone you know, has had a personal experience
with this or another benefit of the new law, please share it with the
Health Care Reform Forum of PACG (karencadfael@aol.com).
Frank Samuelson is a retired pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is a member of the Health Care Reform Forum of PACG and has been active in the Anti-racism ministry of the Northern Illinois Synod of the ELCA.
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