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TO A CITY NEAR YOU:
These public events happened during the fall of 2011.
This fall, THCC
and the State of Tennessee are hitting the road to bring you the
latest information on the Tennessee Health Insurance Exhange. Brian
Haile, Director of the Insurance Exchange Planning Initiative with
the State, will be presenting his paper, "Best
Alternatives to a Federal Insurance Exchange in Tennessee."
The paper outlines Tennessee's choices if decides to operate its
own exchange or let the federal government do so. Your
feedback is necessary for a consumer-friendly insurance exchange
that meets the diverse needs of all Tennesseans.
Plan
to be at one of these events happening across the state. Click
here for a printable list of where we'll be. Click
on the city below for a program agenda and/or flyer with RSVP info
(program agendas will be updated as they are finalized so be
sure to check back often).
- Gray
(TriCities)*:
Nov 1st, 8:00am - 3:00pm ET
-
Knoxville*:
Nov 2nd, 8:00am - 3:00pm ET
- Hendersonville:
Nov 7th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT, Life Church, 120 Indian Lake Blvd.
- Click
here for the full agenda
- Panelists:
Steve Otto, CEO Skyline Medical Center; Brian Haile, TN Insurance
Exchange Planning Initiative; Mike Dodd, WE Shaw & Associates;
Vince Malone, SRS Inc.; Ed Vance, Signature Cleaners; The
Salvus Center, Inc; Craig Anne Heflinger, Professor at Vanderbilt
University
- Sponsors:
United Chambers of Sumner County; Skyline Medical Center;
Hendersonville Medical Center; The Leagues of Women Voters
of Hendersonville, Nashville, and Tennessee; Tennessee Health
Care Campaign
- Light
refreshments will be served at 6pm
- Please
use this link to RSVP and to submit any questions you would
like to ask while at the forum: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e5507doogu4xtohq/start
- Nashville:
Nov 8th, 12:30pm - 2:30pm CT, Multimedia Room, 3rd Floor of the
Tennessee Tower, 312 Rosa Parks Ave. This is a Provider &
Advocate Roundtable discussion coordinated by the State.
- Cookeville:
Nov 8th, 6:00pm - 8:00pm CT
- Nashville:
Nov 9th, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Bristol:
Nov 10th, 7:00pm ET, Bristol Chamber of Commerce, 20 Volunteer
Pkwy, for information, please email Tiffany
Goforth.
- Blountville:
Nov 10th, 3:00pm ET
- Knoxville:
Nov 14th, 11:00am ET, Summit Medical Group, contact Kay
Hannah for additional info
- Knoxville:
Nov 14th, 7:00pm ET, East TN Historical Society, 601 S. Gay St
- Sponsored
by University of TN Center for Health Policy and Services
Research
- Featured
speaker: Brian Haile, TN Insurance Exchange Planning Initiative
- Panel:
Lori Field, Bull Run Metals and Fabricators; Beth Uselton,
THCC; Jeff Potter, Tennoa; Cole Harris, Knoxville Association
of Health Underwriters
- For more
info please email Carole
Myers
- Jackson*:
Nov 17th, 8:00am - 3:00pm CT
- Memphis:
Nov 17th, 6:00pm CT, Fogelman Executive Center, University of
Memphis, 330 Innovation Drive
- Sponsored
by: MetroCare Physicians, Methodist Healthcare, Healthy Memphis
Common Table, The Memphis Medical Society, Memphis Business
Group on Health, HealthChoice, The University of Memphis School
of Public Health
- Light
dinner will be served
- Nashville*:
Nov 18th, 8:30am - 4:00pm CT
*These are local events produced the Tennessee Conference
on Social Welfare. THCC (not the State) will be presenting at
these events on the topic of the state exchange. The conference
includes other topics of interest and is $25/TCSW member, $35/Non-Member.
Lunch included. For more info or to register visit www.tcsw.org
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as Heck" talking points
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2009
DRAFT
of Senate Finance Bill "America's
Healthy Future" Act (9/17)
TN
Health insurance premiums increase nearly 100 percent in a decade!
New report from Families USA: Costly
Coverage: Premiums Outpace Paychecks
Former
Bush administration official tells NPR's Marketplace that health
care costs hurt the Bush years
August
2009
Latest
survey shows majority still wants reform,
but those opposed have increased due to fear and confusion.
Who'd
a thunk it? President
Nixon and President Obama have health care reform in common.
Another
reason we need national reform: bad state policy is creating more
uninsured! Tony Garr's SSI/Daniels
testimony to the TennCare Oversight Committee
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and think you don't need health reform? Check our new Common Wealth
Fund report: "Paying
the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums are Eating Up Middle-class
Incomes." And, powerful
graphs that illustrate the problem.
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twice before opposing a public insurance option. A
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nicely under a public option.
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for the first time that H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices
Act, is deficit neutral over the 10-year budget window - and even
produces a $6 billion surplus. CBO estimated more than $550 billion
in gross Medicare and Medicaid savings. More importantly, the bill
includes a comprehensive array of delivery reforms to set the stage
for lowering the future growth in health care costs.
Net
Medicare and Medicaid savings of $465 billion, coupled with the
$583 billion revenue package reported today by the House Committee
on Ways and Means, fully finance the previously estimated $1.042
trillion cost of reform, which will provide affordable health care
coverage for 97% of Americans.
The estimates also cover important reinvestments in Medicare and
Medicaid, including phasing in the closing of the "donut"
hole in the Medicare drug benefit. The bill's long-term reform of
Medicare's physician fee schedule to eliminate the potential 21
percent cut in fees, and put payments on a sustainable basis for
the future, will cost about $245 billion. Those costs, however,
are not included in the net calculations above, as they will be
absorbed under the upcoming statutory "pay go" legislation
that is pending in the House.
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Choices Act" HR 3200
Senate
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Health Choices Act" SR 325
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3:Side-by-side comparison of leading health care proposals
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on Health Reform - Visit site often to keep up!
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Rep. Jim
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MUST
READ: Senate Finance Committee's "Description of Policy
Options"
Community
Catalyst's Overview of Sen. Fin. Comm. "Coverage Options"
Guiding
Principles
What
We Want & Why
How
& Why Tennessee Will Play a Role
What's an
exchange? Public plan choice? A mandate? Why are affordability and
comprehensive benefits important? Visit our Resource
section to learn about these and other elements of national
health care reform.
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| National
Reform - Congressional Timeline
Now-early
July: Each Chamber of Congress, US Senate &
US House of Representatives, mark up bills
July:
Bills debated on the floor in both houses
Aug.-Oct.:
Each Chamber passes a health care reform bill
. The two houses will then form a conference committee
to match up the bills in Sept.
Oct.-Dec.:
Congress expected to pass national health care reform
legislation by year's end |
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