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Latest Health Reform News

• NASW submits comments on proposed federal regulations for state Essential Health Benefit plans (Dec. 2012)
• NASW explains the ACA Essential Health Benefits program and implications for social workers (Nov. 2012)
• NASW releases consumer fact sheet on health reform (Nov. 2012)

NASW practice perspectives on Affordable Care Act topics

• Essential Health Benefits & the Affordable Care Act: What Social Workers Need to Know
• What Consumers Should Know About Health Reform (pdf format | 11/14/2012)
• State Health Insurance Exchanges: What Social Workers Need to Know (pdf format | 3/16/2011)
• The Affordable Care Act: Implications for Low - and Moderate - Income Women’s Health and Well Being (Jan 2012)
• Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Opportunities for the Social Work Profession (pdf format | 9/29/2011)
• The Medical Home Model: What Is It And How Do Social Workers Fit In? (May 2011)

NASW Staff Presentations on ACA Topics

• Implementing the Affordable Care Act in the Post-election Era: Implications for Social Workers (11/28/2012) – NASW Lunchtime Series webinar
• Social Work and Primary Care: A natural Collaboration – NASW Lunchtime Series webinar (5/23/2012)
• Affordable Care Act Implementation: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Workers. Presentation to the New York State social work Deans (8/20/2012)
• In Support of Our Patients and Our Profession:  Social Work Leadership at the State Level to Advance the Goals of National Health Reform. Presentation to the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care. (11/1/2012)
• HHS and NASW presentation on the Affordable Care Act’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) (pdf)

NASW Health Care Reform Updates (press releases and blog posts)

• NASW joins more than 160 Groups in asking Congress to protect Medicaid (12/18/2012)
• ACA Implementation Tools
  
• Enthusiasm for DACA Program Tempered by Administration Announcement
  
• Preventive Care for Women
  
• Lunchtime webinar on Social Work and Primary Care
  
• NASW’s Betsy Clark answers ACA Decision Questions
  
• NASW Celebrates U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Affordable Care Act
  
• On The Two-Year Anniversary of the ACA: Social Workers Speak About the Benefits of the Law For Families And Young Adults
  
• NASW Submits Comments on State Health Insurance Exchanges – An Essential Feature of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (9/29/11)
• NASW Comments on ACOs: Professional Social Workers Essential to Patient-Centered, Coordinated Health Care (6/9/2011)
• On The Two-Year Anniversary of the ACA: Social Workers Speak About the Benefits of the Law For Families And Young Adults
• The Affordable Care Act from an oncology social work perspective: What’s in it for Patients and families?
• NASW Responds to HHS Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Bulletin with a Call For a Strong National Benefit Package
• NASW member honored as a Champion of Change at White House, for promotion of ACA
• Benefits of the ACA – New Resources:
• The Affordable Care Act and Women’s Health

NASW News: Articles on Health Reform and the Affordable Care Act

• Affordable Care Act promises good things, faces hurdles (September 2012)
• State Health Insurance Exchanges Explained (May 2012)
• Social Workers and Health Care Reform (April 2011, LDF Article)
• More Than ‘Value-Added’ Pieces (October 2011)
  A social worker’s bio-psychosocial approach can reduce readmissions to hospitals under the Affordable Care Act, says NASW Executive Director Elizabeth J. Clark.
• Law Recognizes Social Workers as Leading Providers of Health Care in the U.S. (May 2010)
  Demand for social workers is likely to increase under the Affordable Care Act.

NASW Statements to Congress and the Administration

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External ACA websites

• Healthcare.gov: The official US government Affordable Care Act website
• Kaiser Family Foundation: www.healthreform.kff.org – includes a health reform FAQ and glossary, research and analysis, state resources.
• Families USA: Health Reform Central has numerous resources and fact sheets on the ACA
• Health Insurance 101 provides background information on ACA provisions affecting insurance.
• Health Reform GPS  - has numerous resources relating to ACA implementation and challenges.
• State Refor(u)m includes tools and resources for state health reform implementation issues.