Everything You Want to Know About the Affordable Care Act: But - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Robert Greenwald Clinical Professor of Law Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Harvard Law School September 2014

Everything You Want to Know About the Affordable Care Act:

But Haven’t Gotten to Ask

What is the official name of the law that is

• therwise known as Obamacare?

Jimmy Kimmel’s Take on this Issue

Trivia Question One

Who can tell me a way in which the ACA has expanded access to private health insurance? Jennifer Hudson and the ACA

Trivia Question Two

The ACA hasn’t been implemented without a

• fight. There have been many court challenges

around a broad range of issues. Who can tell me one of the major ACA court challenges, what it was about, and what the court said?

Trivia Question Three

Challenge to the Individual Mandate

Individual Mandate only narrowly upheld by SCOTUS

Medicaid Expansion

Southern States Continue to Refuse to Enact Medicaid Expansion

Undercutting Medicaid Expansion

Hobby Lobby (SCOTUS)

Closely held corporations have more rights than women when it comes to access to birth control

Halbig (DC Circuit)

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for DC recently ruled: the ACA only allows for subsidies in state-established exchanges; subsidies in federal exchanges are illegal Thankfully the full Court will re-hear the case in December

And finally, many people living with HIV are confronting major challenges with their new marketplace health insurance. Can you name a major challenge and describe why it is happening? Will Ferrell Discusses the Biggest Challenge

Trivia Question Four

• Open Enrollment is Coming

Panel One

• Efforts to Expand Coverage and Access:

Premium Assistance and Medicaid Expansion

Panel Two

• Tackling Coverage Issues: How to Get the

Health Care You Need

Panel Three

• Addressing Health Equity under the ACA Care

Panel Four

Agenda