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Kassebaum-Kennedy bill

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Kassebaum-Kennedy bill
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, see there


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From the establishment of neighborhood health clinics 30 years ago, to the Americans with Disabilities Act, to greater funding for health research, to the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill that protects people's healthcare when they change or lose their jobs, to children's health reform with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
For now, the main accomplishment of the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill is to limit insurance companies' ability to deny coverage to people because of continuing health problems, also called ``pre-existing conditions.
We have a health care database that comprises nearly a million managed care members," said PM Squared Chief Operating Officer and Senior Actuary John Bertko, who was formerly with Coopers & Lybrand and has represented the American Academy of Actuaries in evaluating the costs associated with various health reform proposals, including the Clinton proposals and the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill.
 
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