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Health care act only chips away at goal

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Health care act only chips away at goal

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

Swan Lockett had high hopes that President Barack Obamas health overhaul would lead her family to an affordable insurance plan, but that hasnt happened.

Instead, because lawmakers in her state refused to expand Medicaid, the 46-year-old mother of four from Texas uses home remedies or pays $75 to see a doctor when she has an asthma attack.

If I dont have the money, I just let it go on its own, Lockett said.

The federal health care overhaul has provided coverage for millions of Americans, but it has only chipped away at one of its core goals: to sharply reduce the number of people without insurance.

President Barack Obama announced last week that 8 million people have signed up for coverage through new insurance exchanges, but barriers persist blocking tens of millions of people around the nation from accessing health care.

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Despite optimism, obstacles remain for health care

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Posted on April 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM

Updated today at 12:03 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) The federal health care overhaul is providing coverage for millions of Americans, but it has only chipped away at one of its core goals: to sharply reduce the number of people without insurance.

President Barack Obama announced last week that 8 million people have signed up for coverage through new insurance exchanges, but many barriers remain.

Questions of affordability, eligibility, immigrant access and the response from employers and state legislatures obstacles that existed before the Affordable Care Act took effect mean considerable work remains to make a larger dent in the uninsured population.

Some remain ineligible for Medicaid or government subsidies that lower monthly premiums because their incomes are too high. Others are eligible for the subsidies but say they can't afford their share of plans sold through government exchanges. Millions of immigrants living in the country illegally are without care, prohibited from gaining coverage under the federal law.

Some employers, meanwhile, have reduced staff hours to avoid a provision of the law that requires health coverage for employees who work 30 hours a week.

"I'm a nurse, but my employer doesn't offer health insurance," said Gwen Eliezer, 32, who lives an hour north of Ashville in rural northwestern North Carolina.

During open enrollment, Eliezer's 6-year-old son was able to qualify for Medicaid, but she continues to go without coverage.

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Health Care Rights, Health Care Reform A Symposium on the Affordable Care Act

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The University of California, Santa Barbara is sponsoring a symposium on Health Care Rights on April 18th, 1:00 4:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Resource Building. It is free and open to thepublic.

Paul Starr, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, will provide a keynote address Americas Peculiar Struggle over Healthcare Reform Then and Now. Susan Klein-Rothschild, Deputy Director of the Public Health Department will be among the panelists who report on the local implementation of the Affordable CareAct.

Paul Starr is a former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on health care policy. He is co- founder of The American Prospect and author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Social Transformation of AmericanMedicine.

The symposium is part of the 2013-2014 Critical Issues in America Series The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in American 1964/2014. It is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, SantaBarbara.

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John Fetrow – Fixing the U.S. Health Care System: Yes, Really! at TEDxMahtomedi – Video

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Republicans #39;were wrong #39; about Obamacare Presidential News Conference April 17, 2014 President Obama makes remarks about the sinking of a ferry off South Korea #39;s coast and enrollment in the...

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