Obama campaign launches health care web app
As the second anniversary of the passage of President Obama's signature health care law approaches, the Obama campaign is launching a new web app designed to inform voters how the law benefits them personally.
By collecting simple demographic information like age, gender, income, family size and type of insurance, the campaign can custom tailer messages to individual voters.
Women, for instance, are told about free OB-GYN and birth control services mandated by the law. Parents of adult children are informed that their kids are allowed to remain covered up until age 26 under a parental plan. And Medicare recipients are told that the law will save them on average $4,200, and end the Medicare coverage gap by 2020.
"On March 23rd, 2010 -- almost two years ago -- President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, putting access to quality health care within reach of nearly every American," Obama campaign deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter wrote in an email to supporters.
Obama's health secretary touts benefits for women in reform law
Florida Gov. Rick Scott may have opted not to embrace President Obama’s healthcare reform, but that doesn’t mean state residents will be denied its benefits, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday on a visit to Miami.
If Scott declines to create the state insurance exchange required under the act to extend private coverage to the uninsured, the federal government will do so for Florida, said Sebelius, who has been the chief explainer and promoter of the president’s signature initiative.
“It’s difficult to understand in a state where you hear, day in an day out, that we’re not going to implement it, but it’s not up to the governor,” Sebelius told a rapt and enthusiastic full house in a meeting room at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center in Brownsville.
Sebelius has been touring U.S. cities to tout the benefits of and dispel misconceptions about the Affordable Care Act, which Obama signed into law two years ago this week, as the controversial reform is once again in the headlines amid opposition from religious conservatives to its mandatory coverage of contraception. The U.S. Supreme Court will hold hearings on constitutional challenges to the law starting Monday, and the act is expected to be a target of Republican attacks in the presidential election season, in particular its unpopular requirement that virtually all Americans buy health insurance.
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