1. NOW TIME FOR OBAMACARE TALKS Issue # 4
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Now Time
for
Obamacare
Talks
Issue Date
NOW, IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT OBAMACARE IN THIS ISSUE: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Many have criticized President
Barack Obama in the political sphere
for not devoting enough time to
explaining and discussing the health
care reform he championed since it
was passed into law in March 2010.
Even ardent supporters of the
Affordable Care Act worried that
reform fatigue had set it.
This criticism is a weighty one
because there is clear evidence that
a large number of Americans
remains confused about the
ramifications of the Affordable Care
Act; Kaiser’s August health tracking
poll revealed public opinion and
public knowledge of the bill’s
ramifications has remained generally
unchanged when compared to
previous polls conducted this year.
Even though Obamacare-mandated
insurance exchanges are scheduled
to open for enrollment in
approximately one month, roughly
half the public — 51 percent —
continues to say they don’t have
enough information about
Obamacare to understand how it will
impact them and their family, a
percentage that has been fairly
steady since the law was passed in
2010.
Incidentally, October 1, the day the
exchanges are scheduled to open for
enrollment, is the beginning of the
new fiscal year — the day that
government funding ends.
Yet, the Obama administration has
made a concerted effort in the past
month to talk about Obamacare
whenever possible, and since spring,
the White House has strengthened
its heath care team. After all,
“making sure the Affordable Care
Act is implemented well and that the
public perceives that it’s helping
them has to be a top concern for the
White House,” Ron Pollack,
executive director of Families USA
and a founder of Enroll America, two
organizations that promote the law,
told Politico.
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By Meghan Foley edited by: Tomeka Kimbrough-Weems |August 31, 2013

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1) “The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno”
August 6
“Well, on October 1st, people are
going to be able to sign up if they
don’t have health care. If you’ve got
health care, you don’t have to do
anything…If you’ve got a kid who
has just graduated, doesn’t have a
job with health care, they can stay
on their parent’s plan,” Obama told
Leno. “Free preventive care and free
contraceptive care for young women
and families — all that stuff is in
place now. No lifetime limits. So a lot
of consumer protections got put in
place.”
3) Twitter Conversation
with Katy Perry
After pop star Kay Perry, who has 41
million followers, retweeted this
Obamacare message…
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Obamacare’s recent
publicity:
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
If you're one of millions of young Americans w/out health
insurance, you can get affordable coverage starting Oct. 1
http://OFA.BO/Healthcare
8:26 PM - 25 Aug 2013
2,687 RETWEETS 1,836 FAVORITES
… the president’s official account responded with this tweet:
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Thanks for spreading the word. #ROAR MT @katyperry: RT
@BarackObama: Get affordable coverage starting Oct. 1
http://OFA.BO/Healthcare
10:51 PM - 25 Aug 2013
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2) Videoconference with State
Health Officials from the
Situation Room — August 21

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4) White House Reception
On August 27, the Obamas hosted
a private reception at the White
House for a group of important
figures in the African American
community, including Oprah
Winfrey, actor Forest Whitaker,
music producer Berry Gordy, and
entertainer and activist Dick
Gregory. These individuals, noted
radio talk show host Joe
Madison, can sway the African-
American community into
supporting Obamacare,
reported Politico. As with young
adults, the African-American
community is an important group to
target for the Obama administration
because it has the highest uninsured
rate of any demographic.
The president “talked about health
care as a civil rights issue, and how
advocates and media personalities
could use their influence to help
educate their communities and
listeners about the law,” a White
House official told the publication,
while Madison noted that the
president clearly appeared to be in a
pre-implementation campaign
mode. “I would suspect some of
them would be asked by the White
House to use their celebrity status to
pitch for ACA, he added. “He wanted
to get it on people’s minds and get
them at least thinking about it.
When would he have a better of
opportunity than at this gathering?”
The end of August — August 28, to
be precise — marked the 50th
anniversary of Martin Luther King
Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream”
speech, which was part of the larger
March on Washington D.C. for Jobs
and Freedom political rallies. To this
day, it remains the largest political
rallies for human rights in United
States history.
As the capital prepares to honor the
civil rights leader, the administration
is working to tie the celebration of
the anniversary of the March on
Washington to the implementation
of the Affordable Care, a radio
interview President Barack Obama
gave shows.
During the interview, which aired on
Tuesday, the president said he
believed King would approve of his
signature health care reform. “I think
he understood that health care,
health security is not a privilege; it’s
something that in a country as
wealthy as ours, everybody should
have access to,” he told hosts Tom
Joyner and Sybil Wilkes, speaking
from the White House.
When asked what he thought Dr.
King would have said about our
progress towards his dream, Obama
said, “I don’t think that he would
look and say nothing has changed.”
But, he would also say, added
Obama, that “when it comes to the
economy, when it comes to
inequality, when it comes to wealth,
when it comes to the challenges that
inner cities experience, he would say
that we have not made as much
progress” in that area as we have
made with civil and social justice.
The question is whether the ordinary
person can succeed day-to-day, and
“we have not made as much
progress as we need to on that,” the
president continued. “I spend all my
time thinking” about how the United
States can “give opportunity to
everybody so if they work hard they
can make it in this country.”
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5) Radio Interview and
March on Washington

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