Stimulating Your Health Care

The economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009 contains more than $140 billion in health care spending for Medicare, research, and insurance. It is designed mostly to ease the recession's effects on workers and also to boost long-held goals of improving the nation's health information infrastructure.

Most of the money is targeted to programs providing health coverage to low-income families or programs that help workers keep private coverage if they lose their jobs. But the new law also provides billions of dollars for medical research and incentives for doctors and hospitals to buy and use electronic medical records systems.

It also, for the first time, directly commits federal dollars to studies comparing medical treatments head-to-head. The hope is that the studies will tell policymakers, doctors, and insurance companies which treatments actually work best and which are the most cost-effective. For more information about the new administration and health care, visit the White House website.

We at Aflac also help thousands of families make it through tough times. Aflac is still the #1 supplemental insurance company in the world. We offer very affordable programs including Cancer, Hospitalization, Accident, Disability, and Life Insurance. Feel free to contact me to find out about coverage for you, your family, or your employees. Remember, if you are an employee in these hard financial times, ask about us at work.