Tuesday, November 4, 2014

USA TODAY: Feds to require big companies to cover hospitalization

Jayne O'Donnell, reporter for USA Today, wrote an article about efforts to close a loophole in the Affordable Care Act that allows large companies to refuse to cover in-patient hospital stays in any of their health insurance plans.

Comments from NBCH CEO Brian Klepper are included...
Plans that don't cover hospitalization are "preying on vulnerable people who don't have resources," says Brian Klepper, CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health. "The purpose of insurance is to cover the services that most of us cannot afford when we desperately need it."

The full article can be accessed here.

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