Discuss the implications for HR and the healthcare workforce.
1.1. What key questions or problems does the author raise (~20 words)?
1.2. What information, data, or evidence does the author present to support the point (~50 words)?
1.3. What is/are the author’s key conclusion(s) (~20 words)?
1.4. How is/are the conclusion(s) justified (~50 words)?
1.5. What are the implications of this issue for healthcare organizations and administrators (~50 words)?
9/18/13 ‘ObamaCare 101’ sessions in L.A. County designed to educate, inform – California Health Report | California Health Report
By Robert Fulton
Kandis Driscoll, the workgroup director for the Insuring the Uninsured Project, stood at the podium of a recent
session of Obamacare 101 asked if anyone was familiar with what is known as the individual mandate . A
smattering of hands from the 90 or so attendees gingerly went up. So Driscoll presented a slide explaining the
mandate, breaking down the penalty of $95 or 1 percent of income a person will have to pay on their taxes in
the first year if they don’t secure insurance and how that penalty increases in coming years. The room filled
with murmurs.
The individual mandate, a key provision of 2010’s Affordable Care Act and such a hotly contested issue that it
took a Supreme Court ruling last year to keep it in place, was still news to some.
“We get mixed reactions to the individual mandate,” Driscoll said following the workshop. “Some people have
heard about it, and some people haven’t and the people that have heard about it don’t know everything about it.”
The Insuring the Uninsured Project (ITUP) with support form L.A. Care Health Plan, is presenting a series of
information sessions in Los Angeles County in the coming weeks.The workshops, titled “ObamaCare 101: An
Educational Training on Health Reform,” are designed to educate the staff of community clinics and
community-based health organizations in the basic tenets of health care reform. The workshops are for the
support staff that the general public deals with on a daily basis, the folks on the front line of taking phone calls
and answering questions.
The workshop at AltaMed was ITUP’s third, with at least nine total planned through the end of September, and
possibly more to come.
“I think we’re all in a situation where there was a bill and then it was passed and people spent the last three or
four years trying to figure out how to implement it, and there’s been a real information void during that period
of time,” said ITUP founder and director Lucien Wulsin.
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