White House to states: Time to get on board with healthcare reform

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/237935-white-house-to-states-time-to-get-onboard-with-health-reform

The Obama administration is aggressively pushing states to implement the healthcare reform law now that the Supreme Court has upheld it.

In the two weeks since the court issued its decision, the Health and Human Services Department has pushed out new grants, new policies and a new rhetorical standby: It’s time to get onboard.

“The volume of activity has certainly gone up,” said Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.

HHS has been steadfastly implementing the Affordable Care Act since President Obama signed it in 2010, and state outreach has always been part of that effort — the department has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in implementation grants.

But some Republican governors dug in their heels against implementing at least the biggest pieces of a law they thought the Supreme Court might strike down. With that possibility out of the way, HHS is making another big push to bring states onboard.

"Now that the Supreme Court has issued a decision, we want to work with you to achieve our ultimate shared goal of ensuring that every American has access to affordable, quality healthcare," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a letter to governors this past Tuesday.

once the Pres. gets the real 411 on healthcare the overreacher's of the right will be exposed for denying "we the people" in favor of "them the corporations"

The day after the Supreme Court announced its decision, HHS unveiled new funding opportunities designed to help states plan for their insurance exchanges. HHS officials said they expected to receive funding requests from states that had previously resisted the idea of an exchange.

“I think there will be some renewed, ‘Let’s at least figure out what this will look like,’” Weil said.Exchanges are new, centralized marketplaces where individuals and small businesses will buy private insurance. The ACA calls on each state to set up its own exchange and authorizes a federally run fallback in any state that doesn’t act. Exchanges have to be up and running by 2014, so HHS has to certify in 2013 whether each state will be able to build its own.                                                 

 we really need to investigate and find out if we reject due to right wing rhetoric what are we denying ourselves. the right wing explanation is a lie how can they disclaim the healthcare bill when they admitted they never read the 2700 pages, which is IMO makes them derelict of duty.