Everything You Want to Know About the Affordable Care Act: But Haven’t Gotten to Ask Robert Greenwald Clinical Professor of Law Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Harvard Law School September 2014
Trivia Question One What is the official name of the law that is otherwise known as Obamacare? Jimmy Kimmel’s Take on this Issue
Trivia Question Two Who can tell me a way in which the ACA has expanded access to private health insurance? Jennifer Hudson and the ACA
Trivia Question Three The ACA hasn’t been implemented without a fight. There have been many court challenges around a broad range of issues. Who can tell me one of the major ACA court challenges, what it was about, and what the court said?
Challenge to the Individual Mandate Individual Mandate only narrowly upheld by SCOTUS
Undercutting Medicaid Medicaid Expansion Expansion Southern States Continue to Refuse to Enact Medicaid Expansion
Hobby Lobby (SCOTUS) Closely held corporations have more rights than women when it comes to access to birth control
Halbig (DC Circuit) A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for DC recently ruled: the ACA only allows for subsidies in state-established exchanges; subsidies in federal exchanges are illegal Thankfully the full Court will re-hear the case in December
Trivia Question Four And finally, many people living with HIV are confronting major challenges with their new marketplace health insurance. Can you name a major challenge and describe why it is happening? Will Ferrell Discusses the Biggest Challenge
Agenda Panel One • Open Enrollment is Coming • Efforts to Expand Coverage and Access: Panel Two Premium Assistance and Medicaid Expansion • Tackling Coverage Issues: How to Get the Panel Three Health Care You Need Panel Four • Addressing Health Equity under the ACA Care
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