The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will soon decide whether vision care will be available only from comprehensive medical insurers and would exclude stand-alone plans like VSP, which covers a third of all Californians, according to a Mercury News editorial.
The author writes that stand-alone plans for dental are already allowed under the plan, and the same needs to be done for vision care.
“Vision care is rarely mentioned in the health care reform act. Obama should elevate the importance of routine vision care by allowing the 13.4 million Californians and 60 million Americans who use stand-alone vision plans to retain their current eye doctors and insurance coverage,” the author wrote.
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The author writes that stand-alone plans for dental are already allowed under the plan, and the same needs to be done for vision care.
“Vision care is rarely mentioned in the health care reform act. Obama should elevate the importance of routine vision care by allowing the 13.4 million Californians and 60 million Americans who use stand-alone vision plans to retain their current eye doctors and insurance coverage,” the author wrote.
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University of Michigan's Ophthalmological Practices to Combine Under One Roof
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