Some Americans reflect on insurance they had pre-health law

Dec 20 2013

Americans who are slated to have new insurance from the health law are reflecting on what their old coverage was like -- if they had it at all. Also, an architect of the Massachusetts health law reflects on the federal health law.

McClatchy: 'Junk Insurance' Comes Back To Haunt Its Policyholders 
April Capil has mixed feelings about the national outcry over canceled health insurance policies. Five years free of the stage III breast cancer that nearly claimed her life, the Boulder, Colo., resident is once again healthy, but she's still struggling to put her life back together. Like millions of Americans, Capil thought she had solid individual health insurance. Then she got sick and found that her coverage was woefully inadequate (Pugh, 12/19).

Georgia Health News: Will Health Care Reform Work Out? An Interview
Jonathan Gruber views health care reform from a unique vantage point. Gruber, an MIT economics professor, was a principal architect of the Massachusetts reform law. And he was a key adviser to the Obama administration in its crafting of the Affordable Care Act. Last week, Gruber visited Atlanta to address a forum on health costs and quality sponsored by Healthcare Georgia Foundation. In a GHN interview, he discussed the rocky rollout of the ACA, comparisons with the Massachusetts experience, Medicaid expansion, and the challenges ahead for the federal law (Miller, 12/18).