Barrack Obama alleged that now women will have an opportunity to access preventable health care for free such as mammograms. At the same time, the president has been witnessed to launch new efforts to gather support from the public for his highly disputed health care law introduced of late. He focuses on specifically targeting young people and women, and groups who overwhelmingly supported him during the presidential campaigns. At an event celebrating Women’s Day at the White House, he promoted the important benefits of the health care law to women, which includes contraceptives and cancer screenings for free, motivating mothers to have their uninsured adult children sign up for the “health insurance exchanges.”
The health insurance exchanges are the landmark of the country’s health insurance system. After 3 years of it becoming a law, the initiative, popularly known as Obamacare, remained to be too disputed with GOP lawmakers focusing on overturning it and a majority of Americans still not sure how the new health care law will affect them. However, advisors at the White House acknowledged that they have strived to explain the critical law to the public in 2010, when it was finally amended. As the final elements of the law have been implemented, the allies of Obama find a new opportunity to sell the Americans on the benefits of the critical measures that will be the prime focus at president’s legacy.
Starting from October 1, the consumers will be able to enroll for their coverage via health insurance “exchanges” established by federal or state governments. Health insurance coverage for private plans will begin from January 1, with almost 30 million uninsured consumers expected to take part in it. However, to help keep the health insurance premiums low, young and healthy people have to join for the exchanges to make the costs borne by elderly and others with health issues negligible. Furthermore, according to the law, all Americans should have a health insurance beginning next year.
