 The
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: What does health reform
mean for me and TN?
DAILY CHECK: Find out about
Tennessee's NEW Pre-existing
Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) & lots more @ HealthCare.gov
How does
health reform benefit me and my family?
Factsheets you can
download, in black & white or color:
Benefits this year:
B & W or Color
Benefits 2010-2014
& Beyond: B &
W or Color
I am a child: B
& W or Color
I am a person with
a disability: B &
W or Color
I am insured: B
& W or Color
I am a senior and/or
on Medicare: B &
W or Color
I am a small business
owner or work for a small business: B
& W or Color
I am a woman: B
& W or Color
I am uninsured (includes
uninsurable): B &
W or Color
More Tennessee Specific
Info:
Benefits
to Tennessee by US House District
Benefits
This Year
Key
Benefits to Tennessee
Chart:
How Tennesseans are Covered with Reform
Good
Deal: Feds Invest $21.5 billion & TN Invests $1.1 billion
WHAT'S
MY TAX CREDIT?
If
you
are a small business owner, calculate your tax credit by using the
Small
Business Majority's Premium Tax Credit calculator.
Benefits & Implementation
Timeline
Summary
of the Law
Timeline
for Implementation and Benefits
Summary
of Benefits
Benefits
This Year
Year
1 Benefits
Benefits
for Small Businesses
Benefits
for Seniors
Phase-out
Doughnut Hole
Benefits
for Native Americans
Reducing Health
Disparities
Costs
Chart
showing rising premium costs (1999-2009)
Revenue
Provisions
Feds
Pay for Most of Expansion
Good
Deal: Feds Invest $21.5 billion & TN Invests $1.1 billion
Legal & Historic
Georgetown
Analysis of Constitutionality of Mandates
Social
Security Improved Over Time
Specific Componets
Insurance
Subsidies
Pre-Passage:
New
Report: Reform Will Reduce Deficit
White
House Summit to be televised
Latest from Bloggers
New Report! Insurance
Companies Prosper, American Families Suffer
Anti reformers continue to
try to scare grandma, grandpa and their kids, but this piece shows
that the only thing to fear is how
the current health care system hurts older Americans.
Compare
reform bills, premium subsidy calcultor, daily reform
updates
View
interactive
comparison
between Senate and House bills.
HR
3590 Senate Health Care Reform Bill, Summaries, and Fact Sheets
HR
3962 House Health Care Reform Bill, Summaries, and Fact Sheets
The Lowdown on the Shakedown:
Why the health insurance industry MUST be reformed
Former Cigna Exec, Wendell
Potter tells "How
Corporate PR Works to Kill Health Care Reform"
Check
out salaries of insurance company CEO's
Online videos:
Nataline
-v- Cigna's CEO
Sick
for Profit! Check out new video-shorts from Brave New Films
about United Health, Cigna & other insurance companies profiteering
at the expense of people's lives!
Wendell
Potter's recent interview with Bill Moyers
Start the conversation:
"Mad as Heck" talking
points
September
DRAFT
of Senate Finace Bill "America's
Healthy Future" Act (9/17)
TN Health insurance premiums
increase nearly 100 percent in a decade! New report from Families
USA: Costly
Coverage: Premiums Outpace Paychecks
Former Bush administration
official tells NPR's Marketplace that health
care costs hurt the Bush years
August
Latest survey shows majority
still wants reform, but those opposed have increased due to
fear and confusion.
Who'd a thunk it? President
Nixon and President Obama have health care reform in common.
Another reason we need national
reform: bad state policy is creating more uninsured! Tony
Garr's SSI/Daniels testimony to the TennCare Oversight Committee
Insured and think you don't
need health reform? Check our new Common Wealth Fund report: "Paying
the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums are Eating Up Middle-class
Incomes." And, powerful
graphs that illustrate the problem.
Think
twice before opposing a public insurance option. A
lot of Americans don't because a lot Americans are covered very
nicely under a public option.
Despite weeks of negative
campaigning, latest
polling shows that majority support for reform remains
Compendium
of Fact Check Resources
Reality
Check - Videos
that Debunk Reform Myths
Money-driven
Medicine - New Documentary
New
Report: Health Care & the Middle Class
Tips on How to
Deal with Angry Fringe
Talk to Middle-class
Insured TN (sample messages)
Fib-o-Meter
-Debunking Bizarro Claims
450,000
Doctors Can't Be Wrong
The Fourth Estate
does still exist! Associated
Press Debunks "Killing Seniors" Fib
MUST USE:
Families
USA August Tool Kit
What's in it for me?
Middle-class wants to know. So, tell them! Use these messaging techniques:
"Security & Stability for
Middle-class"; 4 Ways to
Win the Debate; "Hit &
Pivot" Take on Opponents & Win
CBO Scores Confirms
Deficit Neutrality of Health Reform Bill
July 20, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) released estimates confirming for the first time that H.R.
3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, is deficit neutral
over the 10-year budget window - and even produces a $6 billion
surplus. CBO estimated more than $550 billion in gross Medicare
and Medicaid savings. More importantly, the bill includes a comprehensive
array of delivery reforms to set the stage for lowering the future
growth in health care costs.
Net Medicare and Medicaid
savings of $465 billion, coupled with the $583 billion revenue package
reported today by the House Committee on Ways and Means, fully finance
the previously estimated $1.042 trillion cost of reform, which will
provide affordable health care coverage for 97% of Americans.
The estimates also cover important reinvestments in Medicare and
Medicaid, including phasing in the closing of the "donut"
hole in the Medicare drug benefit. The bill's long-term reform of
Medicare's physician fee schedule to eliminate the potential 21
percent cut in fees, and put payments on a sustainable basis for
the future, will cost about $245 billion. Those costs, however,
are not included in the net calculations above, as they will be
absorbed under the upcoming statutory "pay go" legislation
that is pending in the House.
The House's"America's
Affordable Health Choices Act" HR 3200
Senate HELP Committee passed "The
Affordable Health Choices Act" SR 325
July:
BIG 3:Side-by-side comparison
of leading health care proposals being considered by Congress
New report: TN's small businesses
want reform
THCC's "It's Time for American
Reform" PPT Presentation
House
Committee on Education & Labor, part of House Tri Committee
on Health Reform - Visit site often to keep up!
June:
President's Council of Economic Advisors:
"The Economic Case
for Health Reform"
Sen. Finance
Committee - Key Components of Bill, 6/18/09
$2 Trillion Solution:
Why cost of doing nothing is too costly!
Comparison:
ALL major natl reform plans/bills in Congress
Rep. Jim Cooper and others are supporting Sen. Charles Schumer's
Public
Plan Option proposal
28
Senators support Public Plan Option
How to Pay for It?
MUST READ: Senate Finance
Committee's "Description of Policy Options"
Community Catalyst's
Overview of Sen. Fin. Comm. "Coverage Options"
Guiding Principles
What We Want & Why
How & Why Tennessee Will
Play a Role
What's an exchange?
Public plan choice? A mandate? Why are affordability and comprehensive
benefits important? Visit our Resource
section to learn about these and other elements of national
health care reform.
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spread the word...
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| National
Reform - Congressional Timeline
Now-early
July: Each Chamber of Congress, US Senate &
US House of Representatives, mark up bills
July:
Bills debated on the floor in both houses
Aug.-Oct.:
Each Chamber passes a health care reform bill
. The two houses will then form a conference committee
to match up the bills in Sept.
Oct.-Dec.:
Congress expected to pass national health care reform
legislation by year's end |
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