Feds to states: Set up health insurance pools for high-risk patients by July 1

Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports on states' progress with high-risk pools created as part of the health reform law: "The program, one of the highest profile provisions of the law, is designed to provide health insurance to people who have been denied coverage due to a pre-existing medical condition and have been without coverage for at least six months. It will start enrollment on July 1 and begin coverage on Aug. 1, according to guidance that Jay Angoff, director of the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, sent to state officials last week. The high-risk pools are intended to provide coverage until subsidies and new health insurance exchanges begin in 2014" (Carey, 6/16). Read entire article.

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