04/04/2011
Aaron CarrollI know I’ve been bad about posting all of these, but I’ll try harder. I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend:
It’s been just over a year since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the massive overhaul of the health care system that’s underway — even though it won’t be fully implemented for another three years.
Behind the scenes, actuaries at insurance companies are working out the nitty-gritty of what will be — and what won’t be — covered by basic health policies.
Sound Medicine’s health policy analyst, Aaron Carroll, MD, tells Barbara Lewis that “the devil really IS in the details.”
Listen in!
by Mark Spohr on April 4th, 2011 at 18:46
The Swiss have been doing this effectively for many years.
Here is a link to their “basic coverage” in English.
http://en.comparis.ch/krankenkassen/info/glossar/leistungen-krankenpflegeversicherung.aspx
Note that they do cover abortion so our Republican social engineering friends will want to have their say… and that is perhaps why the “details” are so difficult.