News outlets track how the health law is impacting seniors and older working-age adults.
San Francisco Chronicle: New Federal Health Law Aids Those Close To Retiring
People ages 50 to 64 are most likely to benefit from the new federal health law because they have the highest rates of long-term unemployment among working-age adults and are more likely to have health problems that would make it tough for them to buy individual coverage, according to a report being released today (Colliver, 12/14).
CQ HealthBeat: Increasing Number Of Seniors To Face Higher Medicare Costs Because Of Health Law
The percentage of Medicare seniors who will have to pay a higher premium for Part B outpatient services will increase from about 5 percent in 2011 to 14 percent in 2019 because of changes put in place by the health care law that base beneficiaries’ premiums on their incomes, according to a new analysis for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation (Adams, 12/13).
Kaiser Health News