SEIU Healthcare Workers from California, Connecticut and Maryland Join in White House Event and Pledge to Bring It Home Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 3, 2013.  SEIU members stood with President Obama today and accepted his challenge to step up their own strong efforts to spread the word on low-cost insurance coverage available[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 3, 2013 – 2:45 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Thanks to Monica, thanks to everybody standing behind me, and thanks for everybody out there who cares deeply about this issue.  Monica’s story is important because for all the day-to-day fights here in Washington around the Affordable Care Act, it’s[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 2, 2013. By: Julie Bataille, Director of Communications, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services We’ve been making improvements to HealthCare.gov over the past several weeks to help consumers enroll in affordable health coverage, and today, we’ve launched an improved window shopping feature for consumers. Consumers can now see[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 27, 2013. Julie Bataille, Director of Communications, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services As part of our ongoing efforts to make improvements to HealthCare.gov, we continue to focus on the need to build capacity and fix software bugs. Increasing capacity has largely been a function of enhancing the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 26, 2013. The health care law puts women and families in control of their health care by covering vital preventive care, like cancer screenings and birth control, free of charge.  Earlier this year, the Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court to consider a legal challenge to the health[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 26, 2013. Over 5 years, the Obama Administration has supported nearly 14,000 health care providers practicing in the communities that need them most. The National Health Service Corps made more than 4,500 loan repayment and scholarship awards to clinicians and students in fiscal year 2013 thanks to an[Read More…]

After the nation’s highest court upheld historic health care law, for-profit company attempting to refuse women access to contraception benefit NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 26, 2013.  The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will review a for-profit company’s legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s copay-free birth control benefit—a critical component of[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 26, 2013. Seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare prescription drug plan coverage saved $8.9 billion to date on their prescription drugs thanks to the Affordable Care Act, according to new data released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  At the same time, these[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 25, 2013. Julie Bataille, Director of Communications, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Over the weekend, we implemented software fixes focused on enhancing the user experience, improving enrollment, and streamlining the workflow for agents, brokers and call center representatives. Additionally, we added storage capacity in the CMS Data[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2013. From Speaker Boehner’s blog: Earlier this afternoon, I sat down to try and enroll in the DC exchange under the president’s health care law: Like many Americans, my experience was pretty frustrating. After putting in my personal information, I received an error message. I was able[Read More…]