Teaching healthcare staff about ACA
\nDiscuss the implications for HR and the healthcare workforce. No more than 200 words. Post your paper on moodle.<\/p>\n
1.1. What key questions or problems does the author raise (~20 words)?<\/p>\n
1.2. What information, data, or evidence does the author present to support the point (~50 words)?<\/p>\n
1.3. What is\/are the author\u2019s key conclusion(s) (~20 words)?<\/p>\n
1.4. How is\/are the conclusion(s) justified (~50 words)?<\/p>\n
1.5. What are the implications of this issue for healthcare organizations and administrators (~50 words)?
\n9\/18\/13 ‘ObamaCare 101’ sessions in L.A. County designed to educate, inform – California Health Report | California Health Report<\/p>\n
By Robert Fulton
\nKandis Driscoll, the workgroup director for the Insuring the Uninsured Project, stood at the podium of a recent
\nsession of Obamacare 101 asked if anyone was familiar with what is known as the individual mandate . A
\nsmattering of hands from the 90 or so attendees gingerly went up. So Driscoll presented a slide explaining the
\nmandate, breaking down the penalty of $95 or 1 percent of income a person will have to pay on their taxes in
\nthe first year if they don\u2019t secure insurance and how that penalty increases in coming years. The room filled
\nwith murmurs.
\nThe individual mandate, a key provision of 2010’s Affordable Care Act and such a hotly contested issue that it
\ntook a Supreme Court ruling last year to keep it in place, was still news to some.
\n\u201cWe get mixed reactions to the individual mandate,\u201d Driscoll said following the workshop. \u201cSome people have
\nheard about it, and some people haven\u2019t and the people that have heard about it don\u2019t know everything about it.\u201d
\nThe Insuring the Uninsured Project (ITUP) with support form L.A. Care Health Plan, is presenting a series of
\ninformation sessions in Los Angeles County in the coming weeks.The workshops, titled \u201cObamaCare 101: An
\nEducational Training on Health Reform,\u201d are designed to educate the staff of community clinics and
\ncommunity-based health organizations in the basic tenets of health care reform. The workshops are for the
\nsupport staff that the general public deals with on a daily basis, the folks on the front line of taking phone calls
\nand answering questions.
\nThe workshop at AltaMed was ITUP\u2019s third, with at least nine total planned through the end of September, and
\npossibly more to come.
\n\u201cI think we\u2019re all in a situation where there was a bill and then it was passed and people spent the last three or
\nfour years trying to figure out how to implement it, and there\u2019s been a real information void during that period
\nof time,\u201d said ITUP founder and director Lucien Wulsin.
\nWulsin said that a large number of the low-income population who will be eligible to benefit from health care
\nreform thinks that the law has been repealed or will not take effect. He added that choices the public will need
\nto make are complex.
\n\u201cI think the biggest [challenge] is just having to explain a brand new program for which there is no exact
\nprecedent,\u201d Wulsin said.
\nThe ObamaCare 101 education sessions take a comprehensive look at the Affordable Care Act and explains key
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\ncomponents of health care reform: who is eligible for Medi-Cal expansion; how Covered California, the state\u2019s
\nhealth insurance exchange, will work; reforms in the insurance marketplace such as the extension of dependent
\ncare, elimination of lifetime limits, prevention of insurance companies canceling coverage, and free preventative
\ncare; the impact of reform on businesses big and small; and the individual mandate.
\nWulsin, Driscoll and ITUP policy director Kiwon Yoo, answered questions from the audience during and
\nfollowing their presentation. Many asked about the mandate, who will be eligible for subsidies through Covered
\nCalifornia, assistance for small employers who offer health insurance and penalties for large employers who
\ndon\u2019t.
\nPatricia Etem, a Los Angeles area public health consultant with Civic Communications Consulting, said she was
\ncomfortable with her understanding of the basic tenets of the ACA heading into the workshop, but is concerned
\nby the complexities faced in determining who qualifies for what in the exchanges. She added that she\u2019s worried
\nabout the public missing the March 31, 2014 open enrollment deadline for Covered California.
\n\u201cI think we have a lot of work to do, because I was surprised that not everybody in this room heard about
\nsome things,\u201d Etem said.
\nNick Montes, an administrator with the Montes Medical Group, and Maricela Arceo, a patient enrollment
\ncoordinator with the same group, also attended the session at AltaMed. Arceo said she wanted a better
\nunderstanding of who was going to become eligible for coverage under the ACA.
\nMontes added that staff frequently fields questions from the public regarding the health care reform.
\n\u201cPatients always ask staff what are the changes that might come about, what is this thing that I keep hearing
\nabout?\u201d Montes said.
\nWulsin founded the nonprofit Insuring the Uninsured Project in 1996 to advance health reform. The ObamaCare
\n101 info sessions are funded by L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation\u2019s largest publicly operated health plan, and the
\nCalifornia Community Foundation, in partnership with the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles
\nCounty.
\nDuring ITUP\u2019s two-and-a-half-hour presentation, Driscoll, 25, discussed how the ACA has impacted her
\ndirectly. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University three years ago, she was able to stay on her
\nparent\u2019s health insurance plan until she found employment \u2013 and employer-based health coverage \u2013 with ITUP.
\nAt least one attendee expressed surprise that the extended dependent coverage provision of the ACA was
\nalready in place.
\nDriscoll said that after these workshops, people follow up with circumstantial questions after they\u2019ve digested
\nthe information. She added that some attend multiple sessions.
\n\u201cI really hope that people take away that there are going to be more options available than are available now,\u201d
\nDriscoll said. \u201cI don\u2019t by any means think the law is perfect, but it definitely has made it more accessible for
\nmore Americans.\u201d
\nFor more information on upcoming workshops, as well as access to the information presented at the
\nworkshops, visit itup.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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