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Beth Uselton
Executive Director
THCC
1103 Chapel Ave.
Nashville, TN 37206
615-227-7500
877-431-7083
Fax 615-846-1946
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National Health Reform Law: Get the Latest!


The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: What does the new health care law mean for Tennessee and me?

In 2012, Tennessee's legislature will consider the likelihood of a health insurance exchange in Tennessee. Each state has the option of doing this. If Tennessee choices to do so, then it can secure significant federal funds to continue the planning and design work that needs to happen. This needs to happen if it expects to have a plan ready for approval by January 1, 2013 and for open enrollment on October 1, 2013.The Exchange is where Tennesseans will go to enroll. Click here to get the latest information on the Exchange in Tennessee.

For the latest from the federal government, check this out. DAILY CHECK @ HealthCare.gov

New Timeline - Check It Out

KaiserEDU: Health Reform and Medicare, presentation to see and listen to online and can be downloaded

What does health reform do for Tennessee & Me?


How does health reform benefit me and my family?

If repeal should happen, who would be hurt in Tennessee?

Factsheets you can download, in black & white or color:

Benefits beginning 2010: B & W or Color

Benefits for Tennessee: 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

How repeal will hurt women in Tennessee

I am uninsured (includes uninsurable): B & W or Color


More Tennessee Specific Info:

Benefits to Tennessee by US House District

Benefits This Year - 2010

Key Benefits to Tennessee

Chart: How Tennesseans are Covered with Reform

Good Deal: Feds Invest $21.5 billion & TN Invests $1.1 billion


More studies showing positive impact of the Affordable Care Act in adding jobs, covering thousands more people, and expanding the economy:

  • Colorado says that ACA will create jobs, lower the costs of health care, and cover thousands more Coloradians. Click here for study.
  • Shelby County, Tennessee study says that ACA will create 3,400, expand coverage to 80,000 people, and provide hundreds of million in economic activity. Click here for study.

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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

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts’ health reform law generated a great deal of attention during the debate on national health reform. As implementation of the new law moves forward, Massachusetts reform continues to remain in the spotlight, but not always in a good way. Affordable Care Act opponents have made the Massachusetts law their bogeyman in attacks on national reform, often grossly misrepresenting the facts and largely ignoring the law’s success and popularity with Bay State residents. Indeed, there has been much said and written about Massachusetts reform that just doesn’t reflect reality.

The good news is the truth squad has arrived. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts has launched an excellent online resource dedicated entirely to Massachusetts health reform—offering the most thorough and accurate picture to-date of what the state’s groundbreaking health reform law does, how it is working, and what still remains to be done.

Key topics include:
– The Massachusetts Law and its History
– Health Reform Implementation
– Health Reform Results
– Financing Massachusetts Reform
– Health Reform 2.0: Cost and Quality
– Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience
– How National Reform Affects Massachusetts

We encourage Hub readers to check out the new site replete with helpful resources such as reports, data sources and analyses – and even videos. Its valuable insights into the lessons of Massachusetts reform are of great interest to us all as we work to implement the ACA in our states and communities. is doing this now. There is stuff to be learned. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation in Massachusetts has developed a web site