(Thanks to “concerned american” for the title of this diary!)
As you may already know - I haven’t yet seen a diary devoted to this - the Texas Medical Association has launched an Affordable Care Act Help Site.
The name of Texans’ Obamacare access point is “Hey Doc”
Cool, isn’t it :)
http://www.texmed.org/...
Here’s how the Texas Medical Association views their responsibilities to Texans on Obamacare:
Physicians are Americans’ most trusted source for information on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a recent national poll, but that's not where they're getting their news. The Texas Medical Association is about to change all of that.
TMA’s “Hey Doc” educational campaign will provide objective and nonpartisan answers to your most frequently asked questions about the new ACA health insurance marketplace. We want to ensure all Texans understand what the marketplace does and what steps they need to take.
The ACA marketplace will begin accepting applications Oct. 1, 2013.
TMA will provide pertinent, objective, and timely content each week on this website, to Texas physicians, and to the news media. Every Wednesday, TMA will post a new video featuring Board of Trustee Chair Carlos Cardenas, MD, answering your questions about the ACA.
Send your questions to HeyDoc@texmed.org.
- See more at: http://www.texmed.org/...
MedPageToday, my inbox resource for all this cool info,
http://www.medpagetoday.com/
ran this piece on September 26, 2013.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/...
The whole article is worth reading and is filled with several links to Obamacare info for people in all 50 states.
e.g.:
The American College of Physicians this month debuted a resource center to educate doctors about new coverage options under the ACA. The page provides state-by-state guides on helping patients enroll, and answers physicians' questions about the ACA.
David Pittman, the Washington correspondent for MedPageToday concluded his article with this:
State medical societies are joining in. In Texas -- a state that has been less than receptive to the ACA as a whole -- the Texas Medical Association recently launched the "Hey, Doc" campaign to provide its members with unbiased information on the ACA's health insurance marketplaces.
"We want to ensure all Texans understand what the marketplace does and what steps they need to take," the campaign's website states.
I was pleased to see that the ACA (“affectionately" known as Obamacare - until of course it becomes a publicly recognized success after which the Repugnicans will refer to it as GOPcare, I suppose) - is being responsibly addressed by the Texas Medical Community as represented by the Texas medical Association!
I like the sound of “Hey Doc” !
It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
(credit also to NPR whose’ article
http://tpr.org/...
was another resource referred to in the MedPageToday article and has a couple of links as well.)