Open Enrollment For Healthcare Reform Summit In Philadelphia

Online, September 2, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Open enrollment starts October 1, 2013. What is the Health Insurance Marketplace offered by the Goverment and can it help you?

Marketplaces are a new way to find health coverage to meet your needs. Apparently with one application, you can explore all your options and even enroll. With the Health Insurance Marketplace, youll see all of the health plans available in your area to which will enable you to compare costs and monthly premiums for private insurance plans.Appling for Marketplace coverage is available three different ways: online, mail, or in-person. Telephone help and online chat will be available 24/7 to help you complete your application. Open enrollment starts October 1, 2013. Coverage may start as soon as January 1, 2014.

Important: Insurance plans in the Marketplace are offered by private companies. Under the law plans cant turn you away or charge you more because you have an illness or medical condition. They must cover treatments for these conditions. Plans cant discriminate or charge women more than men. Market Places are slated to be available in each state. A Marketplace is run by either your state or the federal government. Therefore information will be available through each states website.Ideally, the Marketplace will simplify searches for health coverage by making the options available in one place for your area.

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2013 Philadelphia Healthcare Reform Expo & Summit will be a historic meeting of providers, public servants and private industry. A percentage of the proceeds from the Summit will be donated to the community. The Healthcare Expo is formulated to educate individuals, employees, businesses and healthcare professionals about the Patient Accountability and Affordable Care Act. The following professionals will be participating: Healthcare Professionals - Physicians, Care Providers & Administrators; Top-level researchers & members of the scientific community; Pharmaceutical executives and representatives and executives and representatives from the health care system.We hope to open ongoing dialogue that will bridge the divide between the perceptions and realities that will soon impact healthcare, a situation complicated by social-economic and environmental factors. While employer mandate may have been delayed , other changes under the Patient Accountability and Affordable Care Act could be critical to your understanding. The mission of the Summit is to provide a venue for forming partnerships that will actively inform and change health behaviors from reactive to proactive and move healthcare delivery from acute to preventative. The Summit will focus on understanding the new laws and how each demographic can make the best decisions on managing healthcare costs.