James McCormick from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation stressed the importance of "light touch, low cost preventative interventions" in the community to avoid hospitalisation, as emergency care for over 70's was four times more expensive than the entire bill for free care for the elderly in Scotland.
The law establishes a staged series of reforms over several years, including banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, forbidding insurers from setting a dollar limit on health coverage payouts, and requiring them to cover preventative care at no additional cost to consumers.
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He also called for a deeper commitment to basic education across the continent, where school enrollment levels are dangerously low in some regions, and called on western pharmaceutical manufacturers to work to find cost-effective ways to provide preventative medicines and vaccines to curb the high rates of AIDS and tuberculosis through much of the continent.
Through the Affordable Care Act, women in many health plans will have access to domestic violence screening and counseling as a preventative service without co-payments, deductibles or other cost-sharing.
And because we passed this law -- something that no other President has been able to do -- insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care, things like mammograms and prenatal care, at no extra cost.
The main reason seems to be cost restructuring and the success of diabetes drug Januvia and cervical cancer preventative Gardasil.
Because of this reform, insurance companies have to cover basic preventative things like contraception, cancer screenings, prenatal care, with no extra cost.
And because we passed this law, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care -- things like mammograms, prenatal care -- at no extra cost.
Two years ago, we all, together, made history by finally passing health reform -- something no other President was able to do. (Applause.) And because we passed this law, as Betsy said, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care like mammograms, prenatal care, and to do it at no extra cost.
Insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care -- things like contraception, cancer screenings, with no out-of-pocket cost.
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Today, because of health reform, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care -- contraception, breast cancer screenings, mammograms -- without any out-of-pocket cost.
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