After making her debut as a child actress in Barney & Friends in 2002, Demi rose to prominence in 2008 when she starred in the Disney Channel television film Camp Rock and released her debut single This Is Me which peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.
1. Letâs back up and put this in context. Starting Jan. 1, individual policies must provide benefits similar to those in typical employer plans. These âessential health benefits,â as they are called, include prescription drugs, mental health treatment and inpatient hospital care.
Prior to the law's passage, we saw a race to the bottom, with insurers cutting benefits to lower premiums, says Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ph.D., director of health insurance studies for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The essential health benefits set a standard for insurance. Anything below that is not true health insurance.. These changes are welcome news to people ages 50 to 64 â especially the 9 million uninsured in that group, as well as the 4 million who buy health insurance on their own.