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  • West Wing Week: "The Mysterious Case of Mysterious Case 55"

    Posted by Arun Chaudhary on October 29, 2010 at 12:00 AM EDT

    Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Walk step by step with the President as he visits American Cord and Webbing, a thriving small business in Woodsocket, Rhode Island, calls into radio shows across the country, joins the Vice President in the East Room to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month, goes on the Daily Show, congratulates American rescue workers who used their expertise to help free 33 Chilean Miners, and much more...

    For more information on the events in this edition of West Wing Week, check out the links below:

     

    October 25, 2010

    October 27, 2010

    Arun Chaudhary is the official White House videographer.

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  • Eliminating Lifetime Limits Helps Paul Focus on Care

    Posted by Nikki Sutton on October 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM EDT

    Paul was born with hemophilia, so his experience with health insurance has been a “lifelong endeavor.”  Recently, he had been enrolled in a policy with a lifetime cap and had been concerned about reaching the maximum limit for care.  He was considering changing jobs or moving to another state to find coverage.  But provisions in the Affordable Care Act eliminated lifetime limits and also placed restrictions on annual limits.  And in 2014, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny adults coverage based on pre-existing conditions, giving people like Paul a lot more options for affordable, quality health care.

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  • Employers, Insurance and Health Care

    Posted by Stephanie Cutter on October 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM EDT

    This morning, the Governor of Tennessee voiced concerns that the Affordable Care Act would lead many businesses to drop coverage for their employees. Independent experts have concluded the opposite. The new law will provide tremendous benefits for employers, including tax credits for small business and savings for employers. According to a Business Round Table (BRT)/Hewitt Associates study, employers that offer and contribute to health insurance coverage for their workers could experience cost savings of as much as $3,000 a person from reforms included in the Act.  And the Congressional Budget Office has found that any decrease in employer sponsored coverage would be minimal.

    This afternoon, Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzed the Governor’s arguments and declared:

    “The Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread erosion of employer-sponsored insurance. Rather, it will provide the necessary protection for those who are suffering from the erosion that is already taking place.”

    Read Gruber’s complete post here.

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  • A Small Business in Arkansas Benefits from the Affordable Care Act

    Posted by Nikki Sutton on October 20, 2010 at 11:03 AM EDT

    Lisa Sharp runs a bookstore in Fayetteville, Arkansas and she didn’t think she would ever be able to provide health insurance to her employees.  After losing several of her staff to jobs that offered benefits, she was happy to learn about the Affordable Care Act’s new small business tax credit.  This year, up to 4 million small businesses may be eligible for tax credits, making it easier for them to provide coverage to their workers. And in 2014, a new health care marketplace will ensure small businesses quality, affordable health care coverage options, the same way large employers do today.  

    “One of my best employees left in the middle of the year because she was offered a job with insurance and I perfectly understood why she needed to do that…until I realized that I could get the 35 percent back, I really didn’t think that I would be able to afford it.  At the end of the month I don’t have a lot of money left over to offer benefits and having this reimbursed through my taxes is going to give me that extra money to be able to do this.”

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  • Adrienne Explains How College Students Are Benefiting from the Affordable Care Act

    Posted by Nikki Sutton on October 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM EDT

    Adrienne Lowe, like many college students, was wondering how she was going to get health care after she graduates from college.  Because of the Affordable Care Act, she now has the option of remaining on her parents’ health insurance plan.  Young adults who do not have insurance through their employers may now be able to remain on their parents’ plan up to their 26th birthday.  Up to 2.4 million young adults could gain coverage through this new provision.

    “I graduate in May and when I graduate I was going to be dropped from my parents’ health care.  Now that everything has been passed, I can still remain on my parents’ health care instead of being immediately kicked off.”

    Listen to Adrienne tell her story and hear what’s happening in your state by visiting the 50 States/50 Stories map.

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  • Nurses Speak Out

    Posted by Stephanie Cutter on October 19, 2010 at 5:00 AM EDT

    Several weeks ago, First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a group of nurses to the White House and joined a conference call with more than 5,000 nurses from across the country to discuss the Affordable Care Act and the benefits of health reform.

    Just before they met with the First Lady, the nurses who traveled to Washington participated in a short roundtable discussion about the benefits of the new Affordable Care Act and their experiences.

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    Nurses featured in the video include:

    Susan Matthews
    Hartford, Kentucky
    Family Nurse Practitioner and Owner of Bluegrass Regional Healthcare, Inc. in Beaver Dam, Kentucky 

    Jillian Roth
    Haymarket, Virginia
    Staff nurse in the Family Birthing Center at Fauquier Hospital

    Margaret (Miki) B. MacDonald
    Bangor, Maine
    Primary care nurse practitioner

    Susan Kamerling
    Haddonfield, New Jersey
    Pediatric nurse at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Samuel Kojo Asamoah
    Herndon, Virginia
    Staff nurse working nights in the ICU at INOVA hospital

    Together, the nurses discussed the importance of preventive care that will be made available, with at no additional cost, for all Americans in new insurance plans, and how expanding access to insurance will make it possible for more Americans to get the care they need.

    Watch the video to see the discussion and learn more about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act by visiting www.WhiteHouse.gov/HealthReform.

    Stephanie Cutter is Assistant to the President for Special Projects

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