HHS Announces New Plan to Cover Uninsured

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the establishment of a new Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) that will offer coverage to uninsured Americans who have been unable to obtain coverage due to a pre-existing condition. The PCIP is a transitional program designed to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions until 2014 when insurers will be prohibited from discriminating against them.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that the plan will offer people with pre-existing conditions who have been uninsured for at least six months the same kind of coverage that a healthy person would get.

The Affordable Care Act provides $5 billion in federal funding to support PCIPs in every state. For more information on how the plan is being administered click here to view the whole article.

I wonder how they will afford it here in California....?