{"id":29504,"date":"2016-12-12T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=29504"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:35:39","slug":"president-obamas-weekly-address-its-time-to-get-covered-on-the-health-insurance-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=29504","title":{"rendered":"President Obama&#8217;s Weekly Address: It\u2019s Time to Get Covered on the Health Insurance Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Hi, everybody. It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year &#8212; and not just because it\u2019s the holiday season, but because it\u2019s also open enrollment season over at HealthCare.gov.  That was a dad joke, I know. But this weekend, I hope you\u2019ll take a moment to do something really important for yourself and your family: make sure you\u2019ll have health insurance for 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CW6NbZvR_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not covered yet, now is the time to sign up. Go to HealthCare.gov and shop for the plan that\u2019s right for you. Like most Americans who get coverage through HealthCare.gov, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ll find a plan that costs less than $75 a month. And while the enrollment period lasts until the end of January, as long as you sign up by this Thursday, December 15, you\u2019ll be covered starting January 1.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this doesn\u2019t apply to the roughly 250 million Americans who already get insurance through the workplace, or thanks to Medicare or Medicaid. But here\u2019s what does. Every American with insurance is covered by the strongest set of consumer protections in history \u2013 a true Patients\u2019 Bill of Rights. You now have free preventive care, like mammograms and contraception. There are no more annual or lifetime limits on the essential care you receive. Women can\u2019t get charged more just for being a woman. Young people can stay on a parent\u2019s plan until they turn 26, and seniors get discounts on their prescriptions. Every American can rest free from the fear that one illness or accident will derail your dreams &#8212; because discrimination against preexisting conditions is now illegal. And since 2010, we\u2019ve seen the slowest health care price growth in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you get insurance through the Affordable Care Act, that\u2019s the health care system as we now know it. Because our goal wasn\u2019t just to make sure more people have coverage &#8212; it was to make sure more people have better coverage. That\u2019s why we want to build on the progress we\u2019ve made &#8212; and I\u2019ve put forth a number of ideas for how to improve the Affordable Care Act.  Now Republicans in Congress want to repeal the whole thing and start from scratch &#8212; but trying to undo some of it could undo all of it.  All those consumer protections &#8212; whether you get your health insurance from Obamacare, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or on the job \u2013 could go right out the window. So any partisan talk you hear about repealing or replacing it should be judged by whether they keep all those improvements that benefit you and your family right now.<\/p>\n<p>One new study shows that if Congress repeals Obamacare as they\u2019ve proposed, nearly 30 million Americans would lose their coverage. Four in five of them would come from working families. More than nine million Americans who would receive tax credits to keep insurance affordable would no longer receive that help. That is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>We can work together to make the system even better &#8212; and one of the best ways to do that is make sure that you\u2019re in it. So remember: Sign up on HealthCare.gov by this Thursday, and your health insurance will be there for you when you wake up on January 1. Thanks everybody, and have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Hi, everybody. It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year &#8212; and not just because it\u2019s the holiday season, but because it\u2019s also open enrollment season over at HealthCare.gov. That was a dad joke, I know. 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