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Apr. 27th, 2006 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerI should first mention that I do not fluently speak leagalese, so I may have misinterpreted the whole bill. If I did interpret it incorrectly, I'm sorry and please ignore this post.
After I saw this, The Save Mamograms Capaign Page, I decied that I should see for myself what the bill says. Because I'm stubbon and occasionaly parinoid. To the Library of Congres! *vroom*
It sounds like that the health insurance has to cover anything on the list of "required covrages," which hasn't been determined at all, from what I've gathered from the bill. In fact, the person who has to pull together the list has a year to figure out what to put on the bill, and then if they don't do that, whatever is demanded by State Law to be in health insurance will have to be covered.
And while this particualr bill does not demand access to clinical trials, this one does. Also, several states have demanded that insurance companies cover clincal trials as well.
Off-label use of drugs is, at the moment, not often covered by insurance companies now. Medicare does, if the drug has been given two or more favorable peer revies and a favorable citation in a respected medical journal.
Colonoscopies are usually covered, and so are mamograms and pap-smears. More often than the colonoscopies.
After I saw this, The Save Mamograms Capaign Page, I decied that I should see for myself what the bill says. Because I'm stubbon and occasionaly parinoid. To the Library of Congres! *vroom*
It sounds like that the health insurance has to cover anything on the list of "required covrages," which hasn't been determined at all, from what I've gathered from the bill. In fact, the person who has to pull together the list has a year to figure out what to put on the bill, and then if they don't do that, whatever is demanded by State Law to be in health insurance will have to be covered.
And while this particualr bill does not demand access to clinical trials, this one does. Also, several states have demanded that insurance companies cover clincal trials as well.
Off-label use of drugs is, at the moment, not often covered by insurance companies now. Medicare does, if the drug has been given two or more favorable peer revies and a favorable citation in a respected medical journal.
Colonoscopies are usually covered, and so are mamograms and pap-smears. More often than the colonoscopies.
