Obama Administration Simplifies, Significantly Shortens Application for Health Insurance

by Gary Kopycinski on April 30, 2013

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that the application for health coverage has been simplified and significantly shortened.
The application for individuals without health insurance has been reduced from twenty-one to three pages, and the application for families is reduce by two-thirds. The consumer friendly forms are much shorter than industry standards for health insurance applications today.