Resource: Refugees and the Affordable Care Act Videos
Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center and U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement
This short online video introduces refugees to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and educate refugees about the importance of health insurance and primary care, the different types of health coverage available in the US, and new health insurance options available through the ACA.
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Health Insurance Marketplace Resources in Multiple Languages
Resource: Health Insurance Marketplace Resources in Multiple Languages
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Resources are available in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Creole, Farsi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Tibetan, and Vietnamese.
Healthcare.gov phone line for assistance
Resource: Healthcare.gov phone line for consumer assistance
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
For information on how uninsured individuals and families can get health coverage, please call 1-800-318-2596 (which provides assistance in English and Spanish, as well as 150 other languages).
Apply to be a certified application assistor
Resource: Apply to be a Certified Application Counselor Organization
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Community health centers or other health care providers, hospitals, non-federal governmental or non-profit social service agencies in a state with a Federally-facilitated Marketplace or a State Partnership Marketplace can become a Certified Application Counselor Organization to help people apply for health insurance.
Get ready for Obamacare video
Resource: Get Ready for Obamacare Video
Kaiser Family Foundation
New animated video walks through the basic changes in the way Americans will get health coverage and what it will cost when major parts of the Affordable Care Act go into effect in 2014.
States and their health insurance marketplaces
News: States and their Health Insurance Marketplaces
Profiles on each state’s progress towards establishing and funding their health insurance marketplace.
Updated healthcare.gov
Resource: Updated Healthcare.gov Website
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The healthcare.gov website now contains more Affordable Care Act information for consumers about the Health Insurance Marketplace and Open Enrollment that begins on October 1, 2013. Help Center is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 1-800-318-2596 TTY: 1-855-889-4325.
Outreach and enrollment assistance
News: Outreach and Enrollment Assistance
Health centers around the country received $150 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help people access new health coverage options available through the Affordable Care Act.
Health Insurance Marketplace
Resource: Marketplace.cms.gov
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Website for professionals who are learning about the Health Insurance Marketplace and helping people apply.
CMS Marketplace Navigator grants
Funding Opportunity: Health Insurance Marketplace Navigator Grants
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Due June 7, 2013. Grant funding will support navigator programs in anticipation of the Affordable Care Act full implementation that starts in fall 2013.