Hmm, it looks pretty easy to navigate, I’ll check it out later. And all of you should send it around to the people you know, show them how easy it is to figure out.
Maybe you are a 21-year-old woman who has just graduated from college in Ohio and haven’t found a job yet. Or you are a 49-year-old unemployed man with high blood pressure who lives in West Virginia. How would you know what insurance options you have under the new health-care law?
A Web site that the Obama administration unveiled Wednesday aims to give everyone the full range of public and private health insurance plans available to them based on their individual circumstances.
Users of the site — HealthCare.gov — will not need to divulge personal information such as their name, address or income. Instead, the site asks a series of questions including age, Zip code, job status and degree of difficulty affording health insurance, then uses a person’s answers to produce a detailed list of potential coverage options from among 5,500 private plans as well as the full array of federal and state programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
The woman, for example, would be advised of six options, including a list of nearby clinics offering free or low-cost care. The man would have eight options, including a new state-based insurance program for people unable to get regular coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
The site, whose creation was mandated by the health-care overhaul law adopted in March, also allows users to see how those options will change in coming years as various provisions of the law take effect. This could make it a useful component of the White House’s efforts to sell the public on the law.
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