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Dayton
Business Journal…
Report:
Affordable Care Act to impact 2.7M Ohioans
by Laura
Englehart, Staff Reporter
Wednesday,
July 25, 2012
Pre-existing
conditions in Darke, Preble and Shelby counties combined: 34,200.
Under Affordable
Care Act provisions, more than 2.7 million Ohioans will have health
insurance
when they would have otherwise been denied because of pre-existing
conditions,
according to a new report.
The total,
which does not include residents 65 and older, represents about 30
percent of
Ohioans who, starting in 2014, will receive protection from higher
premiums or
outright denials by insurers for health reasons, said the report
released today
by Families USA, a consumer health organization.
Without the
ability to obtain insurance, people are less likely to get needed
preventative
care and cancer screenings. They also are less likely to have a regular
source
of care outside an emergency room, and more likely to be lassoed with
sky high
medical bills, the report said.
The report
shows 126,000 Montgomery County residents younger than 65 have a
pre-existing
condition.
Elsewhere
in the Dayton region:
• Greene
County has 37,800 with pre-existing conditions;
• Darke,
Preble and Shelby counties combined have 34,200;
• Miami and
Clark counties combined have 57,100;
• Warren
County has 49,800; and
• Butler
County has 85,800.
Families
USA said estimates in the report of non-elderly Ohioans with
pre-existing
conditions are conservative because it only looked at residents with
diagnosed
conditions most likely to be denied coverage.
However,
the business community has remained skeptical regarding federal health
care.
In a recent
poll by the Dayton Business Journal, two-thirds of 166 respondents said
the
Affordable Care Act would negatively affect their business.
Read this
article with links at Dayton Business Journal
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