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Video Chats

The Obama Administration has held several video chats to answer questions from all over the country on health insurance reform.

The Healthcare Workforce

Listen to your questions get answered in our latest webchat about how the Affordable Care Act strengthens the doctor-patient relationship, and invests in the training and development of a new generation of caregivers.

 

Like Your Plan? Then you can keep it.

HHS Secretary Sebelius and Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis hold a press conference to announce a new regulation on grandfathering, which ensures all Americans who like their health insurance plan can keep it.

 

Strengthening Consumer Protections

Learn how the Affordable Care Act will give you and your family more choices and provide stronger consumer protections.

 

Preventing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Health reform experts from HHS and the Department of Justice answer your questions about the new law as it relates to Medicare fraud.

 

Health Reform & Medicare

Learn what the Affordable Care Act means for Medicare recipients, including new benefits, what’s changing, and what stays the same.

 

Health Reform & Americans with Disabilities

Get answers to your questions about how the Affordable Care Act will give Americans with disabilities greater choices and more control over their health care.

Hear from Jeffrey Crowley, Director of the Nat'l AIDS Policy & Sr Advisor on Disability Policy to the President; Meena Seshamani, Director of the Policy Analysis, HHS Office of Health Reform; and Henry Claypool, Director of the HHS Office on Disability.

 

The Affordable Care Act Helps Fight Fraud

HHS Secretary Sebelius, Inspector General Daniel Levinson & Attorney General Eric Holder released a new report on Medicare fraud prevention and discussed the Obama Administrations new efforts to fight fraud using new tools provided by the Affordable Care Act.

 

Health Reform & Young Adults

Are you worried about being dropped from your parents coverage? Or do you have a child or loved one under the age of 26? HHS Secretary Sebelius and Rock the Votes Heather Smith will take your questions about how the Affordable Care Act will help many young adults as they make decisions regarding their health insurance.

 

Health Reform & Early Retirees

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discussed new program that will make it easier for businesses to provide coverage for early retirees.

 

Health Reform and Insurance Industry Oversight

HHS Secretary Sebelius and health reform experts answered your questions about how the new law protects consumers through stronger insurance company oversight.

 

Chat with AARP President & HHS Experts

AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen and other health experts from HHS took your questions in a live online chat about how reform will benefit Seniors.

 

Chat with Nancy Ann DeParle

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, joined HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a Q&A about how the new law will increase your health security and what it means for you and your family.

 

Seniors Webchat

HHS Secretary Sebelius was joined by Kathy Greenlee, Assistant Secretary for Aging, and Marilyn Tavenner, Principal Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for a live Q&A about important benefits for older Americans in the new health reform law.

 

Small Biz Webchat

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Small Business Administrator Karen Mills hosted a webchat to discuss the benefits of the new health reform law, highlighting how the new law will benefit small businesses.

 

Open for Questions

Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, answer your questions about health reform and insurance companies.

 

 

Valerie Jarrett Takes Your Questions.

On November 2, 2009, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett held an extended online chat to discuss how health insurance reform will impact minority communities and all Americans.

 

 

VIDEO CHAT 5

On Friday, July 24, 2009, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took questions from Facebook and the White House website about the President’s plans for health insurance reform. 

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VIDEO CHAT 6

On Wednesday, July 29, 2009, Council on Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer held a Facebook chat to address questions from the American people about the impact of health insurance reform on small businesses.

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