Our Health Policy Matters

In fewer than 100 days, the Obamacare insurance exchanges will be open for business.  Fifteen states will be running their own exchanges.  Thirty-five will be relying on the federal exchange. Vangent, which is running the federal call center, is preparing for 200,000 calls per day between now and the first of October . The federal government has also re-tooled its site, www.healthcare.gov , to provide up-to-date information about the exchanges. These are parts of a massive consumer education campaign, which is badly needed.  Because as of two months ago – three years after its enactment and a year after the Supreme Court affirmed almost all of it – according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 42 percent of Americans did not even know that Obamacare was the law of the land. Obamacare is and will remain the law of the land.  And here ten things you need to know today as you prepare for it to take full effect. One, if you are part of a family o...

In fewer than 100 days, the Obamacare insurance exchanges will be open for business.  Fifteen states will be running their own exchanges.  Thirty-five will be relying on the federal exchange. Vangent, which is running the federal call center, is preparing for 200,000 calls per day between now and the first of October . The federal government has also re-tooled its site, www.healthcare.gov , to provide up-to-date information about the exchanges. These are parts of a massive consumer education campaign, which is badly needed.  Because as of two months ago – three years after its enactment and a year after the Supreme Court affirmed almost all of it – according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 42 percent of Americans did not even know that Obamacare was the law of the land. Obamacare is and will remain the law of the land.  And here ten things you need to know today as you prepare for it to take full effect. One, if you are part of a family o...