1. Other Investments By Colin, Emily, Jordyn, and Redgy

2. Medicare Investments (Emily) Under Obama Care: ●Provide a $250 rebate to Medicare recipients that are in the coverage gap. ●Also they want to decrease the coinsurance rate in Medicare Part D from 100% to 25% by 2020.

3. Prescription Drugs (Emily) ●Brand-name drug companies are required to give 50% discounts for seniors who fall in the Medicare Part D coverage gap. In addition to federal subsidies of 25%. ●By 2020 there will be a 75% government subsidies on generic drugs.

4. Reducing Costs (Emily) Reduce the amount an enrollee has to pay for catastrophic care by 2019. Make care for beneficiaries in institutions or community based care cost the same. Expand Medicare to those with health conditions due environmental hazards from where they may live.

5. Bonuses (Emily) Physicians and general surgeons in areas where health professionals are hard to come by would receive a 10% pay bonus. Provide $400 million in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 to hospitals with the lowest medicare spending. Prohibit Medicare advantage plans from having a higher deductible and copay than medicare.

6. Controversy of Medicare Expansions (Emily) In the Medicare Doughnut Hole beneficiaries as of 2016 only have to pay 45% of their brand-name prescription drug rather than 100%. With its controversy can it be repealed? Will it cost too much? Will Medicare be around for our generation?

7. Improving workforce training and development is a major key to keeping people in the medical field. The goal was to establish a multi-stakeholder workforce advisory committee. The goal for this group is basically trying to get a keep more people in the medical field. Because if there is a decrease in interest for going into the medical field that will mean less and less doctors, physical therapists, nurses, the list goes on and on. Less workers in the field means that it will be harder to get an appointment. And of course it would cause prices to significantly increase for care. The Workforce

8. Workforce advisory committee This committee has many jobs which include: providing recommendations to congress on healthcare goals, and priorities. Make sure the workforce supply stays high. look at education and training to see if there is still a demand for more health workers. finance education and training for careers in the medical field. This committee is also responsible for an annual report on a few different things like: supply and demand for more health care workers. education in healthcare projections. How the federal government is affecting the workforce. scholarship programs for low-income, minority medical students.

9. Stipulations of the committee In this committee there is 15 different members with staggered three year terms. A different representative from each of these eight categories: health care workforce and health professionals, educational institutions, employers, third party payers, individuals skilled in health care services and health economics research, representatives of consumers, labor unions, state or local investment boards.

10. What the committee has accomplished Founded in 2010 the group’s main focus was on teaching and keeping interest in the medical field, an estimation that by 2025 we will be short 160,000 physicians is a scary thought for them. 250 million was invested in getting primary care, nursing workforce, public health workforce, adapting the workforce to the evolving needs of the people, and other things like care for the aging and loan repayment for people going into the medical field. this website describes all of these in depth. but by 2013 the committee has been inactive because it needs three million to push for new ideas. http://housedocs.house.gov/energycommerce/WORK FORCE.pdf

12. Workforce Continued… (Jordyn) Shortage of nurses Want to get support for training programs, and providing loan repayment/ retention grants. Nursing get support? Yes. Such as Eau-Claire Nursing center

13. Continued.. (Jordyn) Support the development of training programs. Focus on Medical homes, management of chronic disease, physical and mental health services.

14. Community Health Centers and School-based Health Centers (Jordyn) What is SBHC? Services provided Jordyn

15. Community Health Centers and School-based Health Centers (Jordyn) Benefits Provide health care to children who may not otherwise seek care Promote prevention and early intervention Save money by reducing the number of visits to the ER for the wrong reasons Jordyn

16. Overview- Is Obamacare working to get more nurses? Emergency Room Visits Have Increased, Not Decreased Employment for registered nurses is estimated to grow by 16 percent between 2014 and 2024—much faster than average for all occupations.mployment for registered nurses

17. Trauma care - Redgy New trauma center program Created new capacity of the trauma center Collect research for new medicines Develop demonstration programs to design, perform, and examine new models for emergency care systems. HAC- Health Administration Center

18. Public health and disaster preparedness- Redgy During an emergency back up plan National Guard When a big disaster hits

19. Requirements for non-profit hospitals -Redgy Forced requirements on nonprofit hospitals to conduct a community needs evaluation every three years Adopt a strategy to meet the needs of people Create a policy to see if free or discounted care is available and how to apply if you need it. Help out the people that qualify for financial assistance Find who is eligible for financial assistance Find a backup plan for failure of these requirements.

20. American Indians - Redgy Change the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= iPeggveoM34 How Indians benefit from their health care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugG0s EaXlZ0 About Health care for the Indians

21. Overview is Obamacare helping or not? Obama care has helped with improving the trauma care system and as a result there have been over 30,000 people's lives saved. There have been millions of dollars used to help make improvements on disaster and public health preparedness The non profit hospitals have to give assessments every three years. Non profit hospitals income declined and many are being sold to profit companies. Indians benefit from Obamacare. Some might have a chance to qualify for Medicaid more easily. Don’t pay out of pocket costs. Don’t have to pay a fee for health insurance.

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