Cancer Society Issues Statement on Short-Term Health Insurance Plans
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Previously these policies were intended as "bridge" coverage to provide temporary insurance coverage for no more than three months.
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"The final short-term health plan rule threatens to split the insurance market and weaken critical patient protections. These short-term plans will be able to charge people more for coverage based on their pre-existing conditions or deny them coverage outright. The plans will be able to set limits on how much they'll pay for certain services or refuse to cover some services --like innovative cancer treatments or prescription drugs--all together. While this will likely result in lower monthly premiums it will also leave enrollees with potentially inadequate health coverage if they are diagnosed with an unexpected illness like cancer. It will also make it more expensive for people who need comprehensive health insurance to afford it as healthier people are siphoned out of the market into these bare bone plans.
"ACS CAN along with more than 100 other patient, provider and consumer groups repeatedly raised serious concerns with HHS over this rule and what it would mean for people with pre-existing and serious medical conditions. We remain alarmed at the potential damage these changes could have on the individual insurance market and to millions of American cancer patients and survivors' ability to access meaningful health coverage.
"We urge
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