Of center is Carrie Banahan who comes to us all the way from kentucky pictures responsible for the implementation and operation of the kentucky exchange. Into my far right, mila kofman who want a shorter commute. Shes the executive director of the d. C. Exchange. If youre watching us live today on cspan2, we welcome you and encourage you to tweak your questions to us. Will try to get them to our speakers, to answer today. You can use the hashtag oe3, and you also we will be live tweeting today, so we welcome you of course to live tweet with a picnic in the hashtag is oe3. Im going to turn over now to sara collins with the Commonwealth Fund. Thank you. Enka, maryland dont have of pashtun thank the panel succumbed and also extend a warm welcome to the audience. In looking ahead to the 2016 open enrollment period, an estimated 29 Million People remain uninsured. Hhs estimates about 10. 5 Million People are eligible, uninsured people are eligible for coverage through the marketplaces. In a
Step to ensure culturally competent care in compliance with the national culturally and linguist with appropriate Service Stands and legislation . So is already required . Of different states space are you think is already required . Thats what im trying to explain the i think it is the states mandated. 13 is on the table and a couple have vetoed it. What state individual do is up to them but certainly along those lines were because its valuable. I just think its a federal regulation . Im not familiar with the process. Im just learning spent because the extent that those are out there, what were doing is trying to pick up the slack for a of the agencies that have not paid attention to the. I think its about to have a password want to make sure that for access to providers who are minority numbers and being part of communities and being out there. We have made major changes from her first draft to the current one. We are working on other things. We recognize its a java part of the nasa
Enrollment. There are some lessons we learned. There is some really important steps forward we need to take. There are going to be Lessons Learned at the federal level and state level. And there should be. Number one is this kind of massive i. T. Build and the implications of that. I think the difference in how we approach it has to be reflected on. We have to rethink at the government side how we do these things. For us in rhode island, weve been very fortunate. Our systems working really well. Were moving to system stabilization as opposed to as opposed to fixing were fixing, but as opposed to having to redo. That issue is the core of all of our businesses. Its essential lesson learned. Its essential cooperation between state departments and state agencies and quasipublics and the state leadership. If you tonigdont have it, its difficult to make sure you accomplish your goals. Third, there are really fundamental problems in the basic law of the aca that need to be cleaned up. If we d
Cspan. Live monday night, our series continues. Rack cara car wreck. Behold him i was in the hospital person praying the other would be ok. The other person was one of my best friends. Didnt know i didnt recognize that at the site of the crash. Because i prayed over and over for him to be ok, then he wasnt, i thought nobody listens. God wasnt answering my prayers. I went through a long time of not believing, not believing the prayers could be answered. It took me a long time and a lot of growing up to come back to faith. Laura bush, monday night. Next, the challenges of implement a state Health Insurance exchanges. Speakers include the secretary for the kentucky cabinet for health and family services, a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama during the state of the union. And experts representing a la for you, maine, new jersey, and rhode island. This was hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. It is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning and welcome to our Robert Wood Johnson foundati
Next year or so, there are going to be ramifications for that. They relate to implementation of the law. They tie everybodys hands because we cant get agreement on moving forward. We need to move forward and fix the things that need to be fixed. The problems in the launch at the federal level scared away a lot of early adopters, particularly in the business community. Thats not a good thing. The federal government has done a great job recovering and theyre moving forward really well. But we have to acknowledge that there was some damage done in the context of the marketing and outreach. And that marketing and outreach piece has to be addressed. And we have to redouble efforts in that area. It is real private sector kind of Customer Service that we need to provide. Because were providing services to a range of people. Youve got the medicaid population. Youve got middle income and upper income individuals getting tax credits or buying as 100 of the cost. And then you have Small Businesse