WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday formally proposed new rules requiring insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions and set minimum health benefits to millions of others under U.S. healthcare reform law.
Two weeks after Obama's re-election ensured the survival of the 2010 law that Republicans have vowed to repeal, the proposal is the first in an expected deluge of rulemaking to implement the law in time for its Jan. 1, 2014, start date.
Defining essential benefits, guaranteeing sick people access to coverage and promoting healthy living are well-known goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But the proposed rules set down in writing how each would be accomplished while giving stakeholders and the public an opportunity for comment.
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