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1. Starting now and on October 1st you can go to healthcare.gov or call (1-800-318-2596; TTY: 1-855-889-4325) to compare options and select health coverage.
2. Thanks to ObamaCare, insurance companies must cover mental health, substance-use disorder, alcohol misuse screening, domestic violence screening, depression screening, etc. under “essential health benefits.”
3. ObamaCare will increase the need for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, health information specialists, medical billers, medical sonography, home-care aides, lab technicians, etc. Now, that’s job creation!
4. 360,000 Small Businesses have taken advantage of the Small Business Healthcare Tax Credit to insure 2 million workers.
5. ObamaCare will change work and retirement by tilting power from employers to employees.
6. Young Americans (18-34) are eager to purchase health insurance through ObamaCare.
7. ObamaCare saved 6.8 million consumers $1.2 billion on health insurance premiums in 2012.
8. An easy and informative Twitter list of ObamaCare health insurance exchanges.
9. 63% of young adults who identify as Republicans enrolled in their parents health plans under ObamaCare.
10. Health insurance premiums will cost dramatically less under the ObamaCare exchange marketplace.
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11. 8.5 million Americans from the 19 states already operating health insurance exchanges will use ObamaCare to purchase insurance. It far outstrips the government’s estimate of 7 million new customers in all 50 states.
12. CDC predicts that 200,000 heart disease related deaths per year could be prevented because of ObamaCare.
13. Thanks to ObamaCare, 6.4 million Americans will be able to purchase insurance for $100 a month or less.
14. A fun quiz that tests your ObamaCare knowledge and helps correct confusions and lies.
15. Five great ways ObamaCare helps small businesses.
16. Eight ways ObamaCare benefits Americans.
17. A typical average family buying insurance on their own will save thousands of dollars thanks to ObamaCare.
18. Thanks to ObamaCare, you can use a subsidy calculator to calculate health insurance premiums.
19. Questions about ObamaCare? There are answers.
20. Annual checkups, colonoscopies, contraception, vaccinations, mammograms, HIV counseling, prescription services, ObamaCare covers all of that.
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21. Confused about the health insurance exchanges? ObamaCare has a breakdown.
22. You own a business or know someone who does? ObamaCare has a website for you.
23. Thanks to ObamaCare, healthcare costs rose at the slowest rate in 50 years.
24. ObamaCare is not abstract. It helps people.
25. 2014 is around the corner and thanks to ObamaCare, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition.
26. Major drops in hospital infections? New Jersey credits ObamaCare for that great news.
27. Thanks to ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion, 1.3 million uninsured veterans and their families will have health insurance.
28. Doctors are excited about ObamaCare and here’s why.
29. Insurance companies don’t see ObamaCare as a threat. Sorry, GOP!
30. ObamaCare makes it easy for low income Americans to purchase insurance by making sure insurance companies accept cashier’s checks, re-loadable pre-paid debit cards, and money orders.
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31. ObamaCare helps doctors improve patient quality while saving $1.9B on the cost of care.
32. Seniors concerned about Medicare? ObamaCare has an answer for that.
33. Thanks to ObamaCare, if insurance companies don’t spend 80% of your premiums on your medical services, they owe you a rebate check.
34. Since the ObamaCare “80/20 Rule” for insurance companies went into effect in 2011, Americans have received over $1.5B in insurance rebates.
35. Dealing with mental health issues? ObamaCare has you covered.
36. Thanks to ObamaCare, 3.1M young Americans have health coverage and saved $147M in high medical bills in 2011.
37. Thanks to ObamaCare, 17 million children with pre-existing conditions are no longer denied coverage or charged more.
38. ObamaCare’s insurance application form is simpler than others currently on the marketplace.
39. Thanks to ObamaCare, the average premium increase in 2012, was 30% lower than in 2010.
40. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that $200B will be saved on federal spending for healthcare.
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41. Thanks to ObamaCare, businesses with 50 or more employees will be fined for not providing health insurance.
42. Republican Governors in Ohio, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, and North Dakota will expand Medicaid.
43. Thanks to ObamaCare, 6.1M Older Americans have saved more than $5.7B on their prescription drugs.
44. ObamaCare could eliminate cost barriers for 40 million people seeking addiction treatment.
45. Thanks to ObamaCare, primary care providers in Medicaid will get a 73% raise.
46. ObamaCare makes sure insurance companies offer a four page summary of your benefits and coverages in easy to understand terms.
47. You’re a woman? ObamaCare has your back.
48. ObamaCare strengthened and lengthened Medicare’s lifespan.
49. Want a fact sheet on healthcare? ObamaCare has that.
50. Thanks to ObamaCare, community health centers received $728M to expand services and provide for more patients.
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The Obama Diary 
I’m In!
Holding hands, were we?
Reminds me of that skipping together game when I was young (er). 😉 Congrats! Now off to see what the post is about.
Must’ve been, my email was chiming away there, how could I resist?
Cooking up a quince storm over here, I may need medical attention when I’m all done in! 😆
Hi!
You are so cool, VC! 🙂
Congrats VC & MP on First place tie!
😉 Want to share the position? I’ll give you a hand up.
Wonderful, UT. A treasure trove for anyone confused, or a database to straighten out any confused/biased individuals. Bravo!
It’s epic, LP!!!! Thank yoooooooooou UT!!!!!
Thank YOU…you bundle of Cheesy Puffs goodness! 😀
I figured it out. Thanks for all your work.
I agree, epic UT!!
Chipsticks: How do I e-mail you. I want to make sure you have my new e-mail address so that I will still get The Obamadiary.
It’s the theobamadiary@gmail.com
I agree, EPIC UT!!!
Thanks LP.
I know the work that goes into putting a post that comprehensive together….. you deserve all the adulation and accolades from your heartfelt effort!
And if you’re in CA ✦✦ CONTACT ME ✦✦ since I am licensed, and will be Certified to sell plans on the Covered CA Exchange!
Tally,
I don’t have a need, but I wouldn’t mind referring people I know who would need coverage to you – like my Vietnamese manicurists. If you don’t want to give out your info here on TOD, ask Chipsticks for my email address and send it to me.
Tweet me a DM at @bardgal and I’ll shoot you my email. I’m probably signing up my whole nail salon.
Tally, this is fantastic. I’m co-signing what GGail just said. I work in Downtown LA and since I often work late; have had many a conversation about Obamacare with the after hour folks in my building, e.g. secuirty and cleaning crews, parking garage attendants, etc. Please send me your info as well if you wouldn’t mind. My email address is: purpleshoesla@hotmail.com. Thanks much!
great!
will check with my CA pals to see if they need help
feel free to shoot me a DM at @bardgal on twitter and I’ll shoot you my email.
“In many cases, premiums will cost significantly less than what was originally projected,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters on a conference call. The report finds that 95 percent of Americans live in states where the premiums for individually purchased health insurance will be less than what had originally been expected. The health insurance exchanges are one of the supporting pillars of the health reforms called for under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The law, widely known as Obamacare, is meant to get more Americans covered by health insurance so they’ll take better care of their health….
All plans offered on the exchanges have to meet the minimum requirements imposed by the federal government, including a list of 10 areas they must cover, from paying 100 percent of the cost for breast or colon cancer screening to paying for mental health care. Insurers will no longer be able to dump patients who are starting to cost too much, they won’t be able to charge women more than men, and they have to cover anyone who can pay.
“Because of the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance that people are buying will actually cover them,” Cohen said. And the federal government will pay for part of the premiums. The government will help pay the premiums for anyone making up to about $46,000 for an individual and as much as $94,000 for a family of four.
Breaking on CNN
The UN Security Council has agreed on the language for the Resolution on Syria.
( no other info )
California has become the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour, with the increase to take place gradually through the start of 2016, under a bill signed into law by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday.
The law raises minimum pay in the most populous U.S. state from its current rate of $8 per hour to $9 by July 2014, and $10 by January 2016, well above the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
The measure won support from Democrats, passing the California state Senate by a vote of 26-11 and the Assembly by a 51-25 vote. But it was opposed by many Republicans, who said it would hurt small businesses and ultimately cost some low-wage workers their jobs.
Reminders:
From TurboTax:
Mid-afternoon smile…….. our U.S. Olympic team —-> going through excruciating training for Sochi 2014 🙂
UT – This is a remarkable chunk of good information! Thank you for doing this. I shall send it far and wide!
Thanks Jacqueline. Very much appreciated.
UT, I’m looking through this again and the amount of work you put in to it with all those facts and links is eye-watering! This truly is maaaaaajestic – we’re blessed to have you posting here!!!! Thank you legend.
Oh my goodness. Coming from you that’s a big (huge) deal. Thank you so much Chips for the platform and the outlet. You’re the best.
Thanks! 😀
I would love to share your list of 50 on facebook. How can I do this, and do I have your permission?
Yes, you have my permission. Share away! Thank you for helping to pass on to others how great ObamaCare is.
You can use this link:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/25/obamacare-a-fact-or-fifty/
The link will lead anyone who clicks on it or copies it into the address bar to this post.
Thanks again Cindy!
UT – this is a terrific compendium of information just in time for my OFA team’s Sunday project: distributing information about healthcare (and climate change) at a walking/biking event in SW Portland. A million thanks to all the blog tyrants for helping Chips keep this place humming with facts, fun, and fellowship!
Yay! So glad this will help. Thank you for all the work you and your team are doing.
The White House needs you!!
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I second the recommendation!
Interesting story from one public servant helping PBO at the White House highlighting why ObamaCare is important to him
This Work Is Personal To Me
by Daniel Suvor, Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs
Back in 2006, as my father was dealing with advanced dementia, our family faced a serious set of challenges. In addition to his health problems, we struggled with the lack of transparency in what his health insurance plan covered, and with substantial out-out-pocket costs. We were often left with unanticipated bills after appointments and medical procedures with little recourse.
At times it felt as though the system was set up against us. On several occasions, his insurance company interfered with his treatment, dictating important decisions about his care rather than his doctors. And there was little we could do about it. Helping my mom navigate the process proved to be a frustrating and expensive burden on us. Throughout it all, I would often wonder how many other families were in the same boat struggling with rising health care costs and the worst insurance industry abuses.
Not long after my dad passed away I first heard then Senator Obama speak about his own mother’s struggles with health insurance and the need to pass health reform. I knew that I had to be a part of making that change. Since joining the Obama Administration in 2009, I’ve worked hard to help implement the Affordable Care Act. It’s an honor to come to work every day at the White House to help make this landmark legislation a reality for millions of hard-working Americans who will benefit from the security and peace of mind of having health insurance.
full story:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/09/25/work-personal-me
What a brilliant (and mammoth) task putting this all together in one place, UT. Thank you! Seeing everything together like this shows us that Chuck and his idiot friends don’t have a clue what they’re talking about – these links and alliances didn’t happen overnight. There’s been considerable planning and plotting for this onslaught of information to be available to people from so many different sources. And that doesn’t even include the online and radio ads, despite the GOP cutting funding and closing off avenues for the Administration to solicit support. A lot of hard work – thank you for compiling this consolidated list.
Thanks so much Theo!
I did not know that a person can register to vote when they sign up on the exchanges… It is part of the application !!!!!!!!
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/09/perhaps-republicans-aggressive-campaign.html
Woot!
Left this for ya on an earlier thread:
Fantastic!!! Now we have to make sure that that information gets to the voter registration people. In PA with drivers license/voter registration was linked, but little of this info wound up in the right office to get on the voter rolls.
changes a lot of things – voters who are vested in ObamaCare will have a higher chance to protect it from any abuses from greedy legislators
UT, this is an epic piece of work. Good going!
In my library system we’re getting talking points for patrons who want information on signing up. My branch probably won’t have too many questions because we’re in an affluent area; but we serve a lot of less affluent areas, and we’re gearing up.
Thanks.
LL – affluent families with twenty-somethings living in their basements need this information! I had to push my own sister in this situation to promise she would make signing up a condition for her 28 y/o unemployed wanna-be rock star continuing his rent-free existence in her home.
Oh, I agree. Mostly seniors who live in my area. With them it’ll mostly be telling them that nothing changes with them, and their supplemental programs will be cheaper if they buy off the exchange.
Even the affluent need protections offered in Obamacare. A friend of my mothers was diagnosed with cancer in her face, and before she sadly passed away, her family moved from their mansion to a two-bedroom apartment, once she maxed out her insurance for treatment. Everybody is protected with this law.
UT, thanks a lot for putting all the information and different links on a single post.
this will come in very handy for the community information about ObamaCare that I am holding this weekend.
extremely grateful for all this input
Thank you so much and good luck this weekend.
Holy smokes this a wealth of giant information.
Wow. Great Job UT. This is brilliant. Fantastic. Thank you.
Thanks!
And for lurkers, if you have any questions, GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. If my experience is anything to go by, we’re all gearing up to give out information on ACA.
As Sam Cooke sang many years ago:
Change is Gonna Come.
And Palin, wept.
You have outdone yourself UT. Bravo!
Thanks so much!
My goodness UT, I’m going to share this with my OFA leader.
Oh wow! Thanks so much Donna. 😀
On C-span tonite, the VA Gubernatorial debate is at 7:30PM ET.
McAuliffe and Cuccinelli.
I cannot stomach Chuck Todd who is going to be moderating this debate tonight. He’s itching to get Cucinelli back in the race so his questions will be helpful to the Republican and I’ll want to snatch him right through my tv so for my blood pressures sake its best I don’t tune in. 🙄
Chuck Todd is the moderator?
No way, No how, No Chuck Todd.
Sorry TOD. I had no idea. I would have warned you all. So sorry.
Chuck Todd is the moderator…..Ugh
Talking Obamacare with David Plouffe
You’ve created an essential resource UT. Congratulations and thank you!!!
#FORWARD Together
Thanks Bob!
Wow UT this is wonderful!!! I just sent this to all my email addressees. They don’t do FB, nor the Twit machine, but they will do emails. So thanks again. I see 57 has posted that Illinois’ ACA information was just added.
For me that means:
– #2 will be booted from my insurance next year, will qualify for Medicaid, but really, really, needs to get a job.
– I need to see how I’m impacted with company retiree health insurance and Medicare looming next year (whew… did I just say that out loud?)
Yes you did but you look marvelous O’Sista. 😉
aw shucks, you’re too kind, but it’s still sorta hard to think I’m getting ready to be on something I remember my parents qualifying for. Gulp!
I hear you, gf!!
Thanks!
Me too cookemom.
Thanks so much everyone. Especially you, Chiparoo.
If anyone needs information about ObamaCare or wants to view this post again, Chipsticks has helpfully included a graphic on the top right page/side of TOD called ‘ObamaCare, A Fact or 50’ so you can always come back to the post and have the information with the click of your mouse.
Go out there and spread the word. ObamaCare is a wonderful and life saving law.
Woot! Brava UT. Ginormous thanks for all of this. You are all that AND a bag of cheesy puffs! Just sent this to my OFA Chapter Leader and everyone else in my contacts list. David Plouffe said on the OFA conf. call last night that we are all the President’s ambassadors and we can and will spread the word one by one. Thanks for getting all this info and the ever important FACTS in one place!
“a bag of cheesy puffs!” Yay! Thanks so much purpleshoesla and thanks for spreading the word.
purpleshoesla – you were on the CA OFA call last night? Me too!
Yep. I was on the conf. call. David Plouffe said a couple of things that just made me laugh out loud. He’s got that quick dry wit. 🙂 Besides all of us 🙂 , our illustrious Prez has got some good smart folks with him who’ve also got his back.
“29. Insurance companies don’t see ObamaCare as a threat. Sorry, GOP!”
Of course they don’t! What PBO did was what FDR did for capitalism: he saved insurance companies from their own dysfunction. And by adding 30 mil new customers, they’ll be raking it in WHILE PROVIDING BETTER SERVICE. The ones who don’t provide good service will be culled as people walk with their wallets; but it’s in the ins. co’s best interest to be fully vested in Obamacare.
The argument is made in relation to car insurance: “Well, I don’t HAVE to buy car insurance if I just decide to not own a car.”
But if you DO own a car, the price of admission is owning car insurance. And as the argument was made by Chief Justice Roberts during the ACA hearing, simply by being alive you will participate in the health system at some point in your life. Just because you’re healthy now doesn’t mean you get to be a scofflaw, just as having no accidents or tickets on your record means you can dispense with auto insurance. Auto and health insurance only keep costs down by having every stakeholder take a part in them; for auto insurance, it’s anyone who drives; for health insurance, it’s anyone who breathes.
also, I would tell them that ” just because you don’t have to own a car, either have to ride a bus or walk somewhere or ride in a car to get somewhere…..the people who do drive need to be insured just in case they HIT YOU! At least if they have “Medical” in their full coverage auto insurance plan, that policy will pay for your medical bills or at least you can sue their auto insurance company for your medical bills. If they are unfortunate to get hit by a car and need to go to emergency, if they HAD insurance it would be covered…..without insurance that $5k or $10K policy might not cover all your medical costs then the rest of us have to pay for you which is what the ACA is trying to avoid” .
These people can’t think past their GOP talking points.
Yay! Kerry Washington.
Thanks Ms. Washington. By the way you was rob Sunday night at the Emmys.
UT, I got so excited about Obamacare reading your magnificent post, I really felt like Christmas was coming on October 1. This is a tremendous bank of information that I’m going to do my best to share with as many people as I can. If every American knew this information, there would be lines around the block On October 1 with people waiting to sign up and the HHS site would be jammed. Your tweet that the best thing Republicans did in four years was call the American Health Care Act Obamacare, made me laugh. They thought calling it Obamacare would hurt the president, but Miss Karma had other ideas. Come 2014 and beyond, Republicans will wear their opposition to Obamacare around their necks like a giant anchor. Brava, brava, brava, UT. This presentation is truly a thing of beauty!!!!!
As more great news about ObamaCare is reported on, I feel like it’s christmas too. I LOVE the law. It saves lives and lifts a huge burden off millions of peoples shoulders and that’s amazing!
Great tweet, Japa! The promotion of general welfare is right there in the Preamble of the Constitution. And it’s also in Article I, Section 8, paragraph 1, which deals with the power and responsibility of Congress:
“The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES….”
GH Bush in his wheelchair was a witness to a gay couples’ nuptials.
At 89 or so yrs old. He is a far better man than his son, GW Bush.
It was on HP and I didn’t want to link it here.
I could not help myself:
Ezra Klein @ezraklein 13m
D.C.’s Obamacare fail: Prices won’t work until November http://wapo.st/1eHS7Iv
No Child Left Behind @hyperbolique Protected account 5m
@ezraklein We can count on you for such critical info. Fortunately, it is a 30 days delay and not many decades.
Great work UT. I love it. My FB page is gonna be full of a wealth of information. My plan is to bombard people with good information.
Thanks!
Thanks UT for all of this good information. I am forwarding to people.
Yay! Thanks!
MINORITY LEADER PELOSI BREAKS IT DOWN FOR THE GOP, THE MEDIA, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
House Democrats on Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON, DC
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democratic leaders hold a news conference to discuss the debt ceiling and a call for the House to vote on a “clean” debt ceiling increase.
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http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Democrats-on-Debt-Ceiling/10737441693-1/
I see on the Ed show that that ex-witch Elizabeth from the View who is now at Fox is doing what Republicans do best…..Lie.
Yes, good ol’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck, now at home on FOX, unleashed to spread lies and misinformation every day to their viewers. Every day she’s interviewing drs. from some whackobird dr. group who are fighting against the ACA without informing viewers as to their identity. Today the co-founder of that group was only identified as a “cancer survivor”. It disgusts me that FOX has high ratings, keeping a large segment of our population in fear and uninformed. Keeping them dumb. Elisabeth is in her element—-she can smear and smear with no pushback at all, as she got on The View.
Three CHEERS for ut!! Thank you for all of this great information. You have done us all a great service. Now to pass it on.
Thanks Meta!
Thank YOU, luv.
I’m probably being dumb here, but is there a way to post this info—-like on facebook—-without the comments?
Hmm….I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask Chips, when the post is uploaded to her ObamaCare graphic (on the right side of TOD), if WordPress allows her to do that.
OK—I’ll check with chips. I’m interested in posting just the info if that is possible.
UT, this is the best information in one space I have ever seen. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this.
I am not kidding. YOU belong in the WH just as much as we need you here. I have not bought a newspaper since 2008 for coverage of POB only. Cancelled NYT way before that. I am ready to cancel cable in a minute.
I am sending this post to every one that I know and the ones I don’t know.
Wow…..thank you so much for the kind words.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-un-assembly-syria-resolution-idUSBRE98O15O20130925
//////Russia is denying that an agreement was reached…..Hower, Yahoo, CNN, Chicago Times/Tribune are all reporting that an agreement has been reached.///////
Reuters) – After weeks of haggling, the United States, Russia, France, China and Britain have agreed on the core of a U.N. Security Council resolution to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, three Western diplomats said on Wednesday, but Russia denied such an agreement and insisted work was “still going on.”
The development came after the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the council met over lunch with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier in the day, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
I’ve been busy sending this superb compilation of information to every person and organization I know. Just wanted to peep in to say, Thank You, UT. You are a treasure!
Aww…thanks so much FayPax and thanks for spreading the word.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/25/obamacare-a-tweet-or-two/
Doesn’t it seem with this kind of support—-92% of the country—–that something can be done to try to lessen the gun violence in this country? It’s mind-boggling to me——-that a tiny percentage can prevent saner gun laws and a safer country.
US, Russia, other powers agree core of UN Syria resolution
Published: 09.25.13, 23:50 / Israel News
‘The United States, Russia, France, China and Britain have agreed on the core of a UN Security Council resolution to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, two diplomats said on Wednesday.’
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4433531,00.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
UT, This an absolutely incredible resource for people still not sure what ACA (Obama Care) is all about. Thank you so much for sharing all these sources where people can go to learn/enroll. Your post today exposes the utter failure of U.S. media to serve the public. MSM should be ashamed! With all the money they have they can’t even do 1/100th of what you did to truthfully inform the American people about such monumental issue as health care reform.
Thanks so much Nath!
this post rocks!!!
thank you!!!!
Thanks!