Early Coverage Options for Direct-Care Workers and Their Families

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Article Publication Date: 
9/1/2010
Summary: 
How does health reform legislation effect eldercare and disability employers and direct-care workers? Review a chart that summarizes eight health-reform provisions that have either taken effect already, or will do so in the near future. These provisions give direct-care workers and their families numerous opportunities to access more affordable health care before 2014. Find a link to this sheet, as well the Health Care for Health Care Workers website, which contains the full series.
Topics: 
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Types/Tools: 
Populations: 
Direct Care Workforce
Sources: 
PHI, Health Care for Health Care Workers
Programs/Initiatives: 
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Insurance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010; PPACA; Pre-Existing Condition; lifetime benefit caps; preventive care; Medicare; Community Health Center Fund; Public Coverage; Community Health Centers

Contact

PHI - National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce
info@PHInational.org
Phone: 
718-402-7766

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/52661