High-Risk Pool for Individuals Who Cannot Find Affordable Health Care Coverage

A troubling insurance practice the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will end is refusal to insure individuals with pre-existing conditions or charging these individuals very high premiums.  Until that provision takes effect in 2014, (beginning on July 1, 2010) individuals with pre-existing conditions that do not have access to health insurance will be able to apply for health insurance from a new high-risk pool, which includes significant protections to ensure that premiums are affordable.

New Mexico is in the process of establishing its new high risk pool; it is likely that the state will receive at least $37 million to operate this pool.  Check back to get more information on New Mexico's high-risk pool as changes go into effect.

• Affordable Coverage for Uninsured Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions
• Help for New Mexicans with Pre-Existing Conditions from FamiliesUSA
• Report: More than One in Five Non-Elderly New Mexicans Has a Diagnosed Pre-Existing Condition from FamiliesUSA
• Issues for Structuring Interim High-Risk Pools

 Health Insurance Reform
 

Check out Senator Bingaman's Interactive Health Care Road Map

 

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Information for:

• Health Care Providers
• Insurance Coverage for Dependents Under Age 26
• Native Americans
• Parents of Children with Pre-Existing Conditions
• Seniors
• Small Business Owners
• Women

Information On:

• Cost Containment and the Budget
• High-Risk Pools
• New Mexico-Specific Effects
• Prevention
• Quality