Some preventive health services carry no co-pays now under many insurance plans

SAN DIEGO - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Feb. 15 that an estimated 86 million Americans were helped by health reform’s prevention coverage improvements in 2011.

“Americans of all ages can now get the preventive services they need, like mammograms and the new Annual Wellness Visit, free of charge, as a result of the new health care law,” said Sebelius. “With more people taking advantage of these benefits, more lives can be saved, and costly, and often burdensome, diseases can be prevented or caught earlier.”

The Affordable Care Act requires many insurance plan...