Consumers now have the right to many vital preventive services at no out-of-pocket cost.
Use of preventive services can also help bring costs down in a variety of ways.
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It would deprive many, many millions of Americans of free preventive services like mammograms.
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Millions of older Americans are receiving better access to preventive services and more affordable prescription drugs.
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It has given millions of seniors the opportunity for free preventive services like mammograms and cancer screenings.
Providing universal coverage of preventive services is by no means a guarantee that people will get them.
My Administration remains committed to ensuring access to quality health care that includes preventive services for women.
As I stated earlier, the ACA requires coverage for all preventive services considered Grade A and B.
It is why we secured stronger protections and more preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act.
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We know that eliminating these costs for regular preventive services can ensure more Americans will use these services.
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And 54 million Americans with private insurance can now receive many preventive services without paying copayments or deductibles.
Our challenge is to remove the obstacles between patients getting the preventive services that they need to stay healthy.
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Medicare beneficiaries are also eligible for key preventive services at no out-of-pocket cost.
Under the new plan enrollees will also have broader coverage, including preventive services.
The federal Preventive Services Task Force, for one, embodies a minimalist, doubter mind-set.
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The law will also give women and their families the affordable health choices they need and access to critical preventive services.
Often because of cost, Americans use preventive services at about half the recommended rate, according to research cited by the White House.
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It was the right thing to do so that important preventive services like mammograms could be provided to millions of Americans free.
The balance here that was sought was found, an appropriate balance between religious beliefs and the need for access to preventive services.
And a key component of this is making sure that mothers, daughters, and sisters have access to the preventive services they need.
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You can be sure that we want to strike the right balance between expanding coverage of preventive services and respecting religious beliefs.
Currently, Americans use preventive services at only about half the recommended rate.
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Uninsured adults are also much less likely to receive vaccinations, cancer screening services such as mammography and colonoscopy, and other effective preventive services.
There was a lot of controversy over this issue last year, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued its screening guideline.
But on the other side of this was the important need to provide access to women to the preventive services that they require.
Beginning this year, the law will make all Medicare preventive services, such as screenings for colon, prostate and breast cancer, free to beneficiaries.
Ned Calonge, the Colorado doctor who is chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-sponsored expert panel that evaluates preventive tests.
Preventive services would be carved out of the existing health insurance system and financed through a new, public-private system called the Wellness Trust.
The new guidelines require most private health plans to cover preventive services, including contraception, for women without charging a copay, coinsurance or deductible.
To determine which services qualify as preventive, government officials relied largely on existing recommendations by three groups, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
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