May 19 2010
In this new
KHN consumer column, produced in collaboration with
The Washington Post, Michelle Andrews writes about high-risk pools: "If you're sick - or have ever been sick - and can't get insurance, the new health-care law promises fast relief: access to guaranteed coverage through a special federally funded insurance program starting in July. The goal is to provide comprehensive and affordable coverage to more people. But as the starting date approaches, uncertainties abound. Details have yet to emerge about the costs and benefits of the 'high-risk pools' to be set up under the program" (Andrews, 5/18).
Read entire column.
 This 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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