{"id":447,"date":"2010-09-30T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/PatientSafetyCT.org\/?p=447"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:10:52","slug":"new-resource-on-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"new resource on health reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"1\" name=\"1\"><\/a><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\" href=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\">Kaiser Family Foundation Launches Online Health Reform Source to Explain, Analyze and Track the New Law&#8217;s Implementation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly six months since the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and as some key provisions are due to be implemented, the Kaiser Family Foundation launched an <a title=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\" href=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\">online gateway<\/a> providing easy access to new and comprehensive resources on the health reform law. Recognizing the transition from the debate about passage to the realities of implementing a law, the Health Reform Source has many new features that provide explanations of the basics of the law, in-depth analysis of policy issues in implementation, and quick and easy access to relevant data, studies and developments. A new animated short movie, &#8220;Health Reform Hits Main Street,&#8221; featuring narration by Cokie Roberts, ABC News and NPR news commentator and a member of the Foundation&#8217;s Board of Trustees, explains the health reform law to an American public still confused by how it works. Other initial new features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A customizable Implementation Timeline which presents a detailed list of major provisions that can be viewed by year or by topic.<\/li>\n<li>A series of Video Explainer clips of Foundation experts answering specific questions about the law on a variety of health policy topics.<\/li>\n<li>In interactive state map of the U.S. that features pop-up boxes of key state-specific information related to health coverage and the health law, and links to new health reform pages on the Foundation&#8217;s statehealthfacts.org featuring key data, reports, and news for each state.<\/li>\n<li>The Public Opinion: Poll Watch featuring a weekly round-up of surveys from the Foundation and others assessing public attitudes and experiences over time related to the health reform law.<\/li>\n<li>The Foundation&#8217;s updated Health Reform Subsidy Calculator to illustrate premiums, government subsidies and out-of-pocket costs for people eligible for health coverage in exchanges due to be established in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>An Official Document Finder that provides quick access to federal regulations and studies related the health law.<\/li>\n<li>A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) database addressing questions about the health law.<\/li>\n<li>Government Resources provide links to federal government websites that provide information to consumers and regulatory guidance about the provisions of the law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaiser&#8217;s Health Reform Source can be viewed <a title=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\" href=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/612\/0\/\">online<\/a> and you can subscribe to alerts via email and RSS feeds. Additionally, the Foundation has established a <a title=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/13502\/0\/\" href=\"http:\/\/smtp01.kff.org\/t\/14325\/361887\/13502\/0\/\">Facebook page<\/a> for the Health Reform Source which will feature additional related material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Family Foundation Launches Online Health Reform Source to Explain, Analyze and Track the New Law&#8217;s Implementation Nearly six months since the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=447\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-for-patients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}