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Volunteers
and staff at Legislative Plaza on March 23, celebrating the One
Year Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Left to Right: Eddie
Bryant, Jerry Lee, Brad Palmertree, Tony Garr, Gloria Jones, Beth
Uselton, Yolonda McClain, Christina Kritchek, Mary Mancini. Bottom:
Lorri Mabry and A.J. Starling
Details
on how you have benefited and what you can do:
How
you have benefited: Click
here to see how 100's of Tennesseans are benefiting
There
are 6.2 million Tennesseans and 5.2 million have benefited already.
- One million
seniors have already benefits by having preventive health services,
extra help with their prescription drugs and enhanced protections.
- Three million
employed workers are also receiving preventive health services
and enhanced protections.
- Over one
million low-income TennCare recipients did not lose their eligibility
during the economic downturn because the states were required
to maintain eligibility. The states were allowed to reduce benefits
only for a few beneficiaries.
Beginning
January 1, 2014, about 700,000 additional Tennesseans can
sign up for either TennCare or private health insurance coverage
and be eligible for subsidies and advanced tax credits. About three
hundred thousand will either not be eligible for coverage because
they are immigrants or can ask for an exemption from coverage.
THCC
will be participating in a week -long celebration with each day
being special:
- Monday,
March 21: Moving Forward…Protecting
Small Businesses.
- Moving
forward means giving small businesses the level playing field
they deserve by giving them the choice and the freedom to
band together to get the same rates as larger companies. Click
here to sign up for a webinar.
- Moving
forward means lowering the costs of health care so that small
businesses can use that money to create more jobs. Click
here for more info.
- It means
that small businesses know that they can afford to offer their
employees’ health care and that there are tax breaks
to make it possible.with fewer than 25 employees can receive
tax credits.
- Tuesday,
March 22: Moving Forward…Protecting
Seniors Health.
- Moving
forward means strengthening Medicare and saving seniors money
by continuing to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse. Click
here for more information.
- Moving
forward means giving seniors the peace of mind that their
prescription drug costs will be lower because they won’t
ever fall back into the Medicare prescription drug coverage
gap, or “donut hole.”
- It means
keeping seniors healthy by allowing them to get preventive
care such as annual check-ups, mammograms and screenings for
cancer with no co-pay.Click here for more information;
- Wednesday,
March 23: Moving Forward…Protecting
Our Care, Bill of Rights.
- Moving
forward means that people with chronic diseases and pre-existing
conditions can no longer be put back at the mercy of insurance
companies – giving peace of mind to those 129 million
Americans that they will never again be unable to find coverage.
Click
here for a copy of your Patient's Bill of Rights.
- Moving
forward means that insurance companies will not be able to
drop your coverage when you get sick; or limit the care you
receive.
- It means
giving millions of Americans access to the same health care
members of Congress get. Click
here for the Email Alert.
- Thursday,
March 24:
Moving Forward…Protecting Women’s Health Care.
- Moving
forward means insurance companies can no longer charge a woman
more just because of her gender. Click
here for more information.
- Moving
forward means no longer branding a woman as a pre-existing
condition, simply because of a Caesarean section or because
she was a victim of domestic violence.
- It means
women can no longer be dropped from their insurance because
they get sick, their children can no longer be denied care
because of a pre-existing condition, and women and their families
can receive preventive health care without a co-pay.
- Friday,
March 25: Moving Forward…Protecting
Young Adults.
- Moving
forward means giving recent graduates the peace of mind that
they can get coverage even if they haven’t found a job.Click
here for more information.
- Moving
forward means young people know that they will never again
be denied care because of pre-existing conditions or have
their coverage dropped because they got too sick.
- It means
that every young adult will know that they will be the ones
in control of their health care – not insurance companies.
What
you can do right now?
THCC is collecting
photos of Tennesseans from every county. We need these photos by
March 21. Can we count on you?
Click here to see how other Tennesseans are helping.
Join
us at Legislative Plaza in Nashville, TN on March 23.
This is an all day event. But if you can only come in the morning
or during lunch time, please come for as long as you can.
Call up your
state representative and state senator. Tell them that you are their
constituent and want to visit with them on March 23, the first anniversary
of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Click
here to find your state legislators.
Call the Tennessee
Health Care Campaign (THCC) at 1-615-227-7500 or toll-free at 1-877-431-7083
and let us know that you will join us.
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