Introduction to Laws That Affect Your Health Insurance Benefits
A number of federal laws can help you benefit from health care. We will look at several of them here.
What you will learn
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
- COBRA
- Federal Healthcare Acts for Women and Babies
What do you know?
Introduction to Laws That Affect Your Health Insurance Benefits
The majority of Americans are covered by some form of health insurance. Health insurance is regulated by federal laws, many of which are foreign to the average American. They were passed to provide protections to Americans at all stages of their lives. In addition to knowing what health insurance covers, it’s a good idea to know the major laws that address these protections. The results could favor you tremendously at some point.
This tutorial discusses several of the most prominent laws. It does not cover the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 under President Obama.
