Of the law. It is just getting underway. I want to give a special thanks for braving the elements and trouble uncertainties to get here. If you decided that staying home was the better part of your valor andd you are watching from cspan, welcome to you too. Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the sy center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare, and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you back here. As for todays program, one might ask, why there is a need for a primer on outlaws a few weeks of being five years old, and has been in the spotlight virtually every day since it was signed into law. Well, there are two fairly larg
It fills in the gaps in the current system. Namely, it expands medicaid to cover more low income adults by establishing raising the eligibility threshold. Just to note. The federal Poverty Level is that 11,000 dollars around 11,000. It also creates a new Health Insurance marketplace, where people can go to shop for and an role in private insurance. Through these marketplaces premiums of these are available to people without access to other coverage, who have incomes between 100 and 400 of the Poverty Level to make that coverage more affordable. All of these expansions are made to work by Health Insurance market reforms that prohibit insurers from denying people coverage or charging them more because they are sick. It also imposes new requirements on individuals to purchase Health Insurance with some exceptions, and for large employers to provide affordable coverage to their employees. Turning to the marketplaces, these are Online Market places where consumers can apply for, shop around
Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month, not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you back here. As for todays program, one might ask, why there is a need for a primer on outlaws, a few weeks of being five years old, and has been in the spotlight virtually every day since it was signed into law. Well, there are two fairly large reasons, one being this is a fairly complicated law, as some of you have found. With many different provisions and even without congressional action to amend it, many of those provisions have changed since its enactment. Secondly, bright people come and go.
Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge
New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different Things out there, and cybersecurity. But sometimes it doesnt make all the news, but the subcommittees been very, very active. Host and were going to talk about some of those issues in this edition of the communicators, but i wanted to ask you about the fcc. Brand new fcc, five be members all coming to see your committee, potentially, in december. Is that correct . Guest correct. Host whats the importance of having all five . Guest well, again, the fccs so important to the industry and to the co