The first test of new health law: Covering hard-to-insure people

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Kaiser Health News writer Mary Agnes Carey writes about the challenge of getting coverage for some of the people who are the hardest to insure. "It's the first and one of the hardest tests of the Democrats' ambitious plan to overhaul the nation's health care system: in the next 90 days establishing a federally funded program to cover people turned down by private insurers because they have a pre-existing medical condition" (Carey, 3/26). Read the entire story.


Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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