The following article by Amanda Michelle Gomez was posted on the ThinkProgress website April 23, 2018:
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study found that zero short-term health plans cover maternity care.
The Trump administration’s “affordable alternative” to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is short-term health plans, but a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) studypublished on Monday shows just how bare-bones this coverage actually is.
A KFF review of short-term health plans offered on two large private insurance websites, eHealth and Agile Health Insurance, in 45 states and Washington, D.C. shows these plans rarely if at all pay for essential coverage: no plans cover maternity care; 43 percent do not cover mental health services; 62 percent do not cover substance use disorder treatment (both alcohol and other drugs); and 71 percent do not cover outpatient prescription drugs. Continue reading “Trump’s big idea for health insurance excludes maternity care and barely covers addiction treatment”