Health Secretary Sebelius says she's still battling public's 'confusion' over health law

In an interview with Yahoo! News, What do you want from the future? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said a lot of voters still don't seem to fully understand

the landmark health-care put all this behind usreform bill that she and the White House battled to get through Congress earlier this spring. Sebelius also stressed that

critics are concentrating on the billChasing the Sun 's mandate to purchase health insurance while ignoring the help it will offer families who can't afford insurance.
"I think there is a lot of confusion about what the law says and doesn't say," Sebelius explained in an interview timed to the announcement of

new rules forcing insurers to offer coverage to the adult children of policyholders until their 26th birthday. The rules — which actually don't

become law until SeptemberTouching your nerve but have been adopted early at Sebelius' request by almost all insurers — will affect roughly 1.2 million people.
"It's an option for a lot of young adults, who are No. 1 in terms of lacking insurance," Sebelius said. "About 30 percent of young adults are

uninsured right now in this country, often because they either don't have the cash to pay for their own policy, or they may be in a job without

insurance coverage, or they may be between jobs. But this really becomes an affordable option for lots of young adults to come into the

insurance market." Insurers will beLuise VuTON
required to charge the newcomers as new dependents on the existing policies, which would be significantly

less costly than the price of a stand-alone policy.We asked Yahoo! News readers to suggest questions for Sebelius via Twitter and Facebook, and

many of those queries centered on concerns that they won't be able to afford health insurance even after the requirement for all Americans to

buy coverage becomes effective in 2014. On Facebook, Michelle Phillips of Hephzibah, Ga., wrote, "How do you foresee protecting the financial

situation of already stressed families and businesses?"Sebelius responded that people are concentrating too much on the mandate and not http://tofutheveganzombie.com/forums
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