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THE GAZETTE ONLINE AND PRINTABLE VERSIONS AVAILABLE AT HTTP://AHCA.BULLETINNEWS.COM DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 8:00 AM EDT TODAY’S EDITION AHCA/NCAL in the News Medicare News Washington Health Care Association Branch Awards Senate Approves Medicare Payment Patch Legislation. .............. 6 “Outstanding Work” In The Industry. .................................... 1 Senate Approves Bill To Reduce Payments To Doctors For Affordable Care Act/Health Reform Implementation Certain Medical Procedures. ................................................ 7 ACA Enrollment Nears Seven Million As Deadline Spurs Cardiac Rehab Programs Now Covered By Medicare. ................ 7 Interest, Hobbles Website. ................................................... 1 Blog: Journalists Overlooking Protecting Access To Medicare States See Surge In Interest, Technical Problems As Open Act Of 2014. .......................................................................... 7 Enrollment Ends. .................................................................. 3 Industry News Sebelius Discusses ACA As Open Enrollment Draws To A American Heart, Stroke Associations Release Stroke Survivor Close. .................................................................................... 4 Care Recommendations....................................................... 7 Poll: Support For ACA Climbs To 49%. ........................................ 5 Expert Panel Releases Recommendations. ................................. 7 Supreme Court Turns Away Early Look At Additional NYTimes Reviews Book About Caregiving. .................................. 7 Contraceptive Mandate Challenge. ...................................... 5 CEO: ARIA, GROWTH Keys To Success. .................................... 8 Medicaid Expansion Proponents Continue Push. ......................... 5 Family Caregiver Trend Impacting Individuals, National Connecticut Offering “Exchange In A Box.” .................................. 6 Workforce. ............................................................................ 8 New Hampshire Uninsured Face More Coverage Options Senior Center Residents Join Program To Make Dolls For Under ACA. ........................................................................... 6 Disabled Children. ................................................................ 8 Volunteers Canvassing For ACA Arrested In Chicago. ................ 6 Half Of ACA Subsidy Recipients Projected To Become Ineligible Assisted Living News Within 12 Months. ................................................................. 6 Assisted Living Concepts “Rebrands” To Reinvigorate Image. .... 8 Commentary Considers ACA As Open Enrollment Period Ends. 6 Developer Plans To Construct Second, Third California Senior Living Facilities. .................................................................... 8 AHCA/NCAL IN THE NEWS AFFORDABLE CARE ACT/HEALTH Washington Health Care Association Branch REFORM IMPLEMENTATION Awards “Outstanding Work” In The Industry. ACA Enrollment Nears Seven Million As The Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review (4/1, Curless, 208K) reports 2014 marks the first year the Washington Health Care Deadline Spurs Interest, Hobbles Website. The Association’s Eastern Washington chapter is honoring Affordable Care Act’s first open-enrollment period came to an “outstanding work” in the industry by presenting care awards. official close at midnight. And while people in most states will According to WHCA’s Brenda Orffer, “The point of these be able to sign up for coverage under the law for a bit longer, awards is to highlight and honor them for the sometimes the date was still hailed as a milestone in several front-page thankless job these people do. They are not working a job. stories, news broadcasts, and across the web. The coverage They are answering a call.” generally focuses on the high volume of applicants the day saw, which both bumped up enrollment figures and caused the main portal, healthcare.gov, to malfunction. On its front page, USA Today (4/1, A1, O'Donnell, morning due to a software bug, and again this afternoon Madhani, Locker, 5.82M) reports that late Monday, a preventing new applicants from logging in.” “government official” said that the Administration believes it On ABC World News (3/31, story 2, 2:10, Sawyer, “is on track to sign up 7 million people by the midnight 7.43M), correspondent Jon Karl reported that there are “still deadline.” Still, the article acknowledges “it is likely to be glitches” hampering healthcare.gov, which was “down for weeks before there is a final tally of how many people signed hours” on Monday. Karl also reported that “many questions up for insurance” during the law’s first enrollment period. An are still unanswered, including how many people have AP (4/1, Alonso-Zaldivar, Lederman) report carried widely actually paid to enroll,” and “how many of those who have also says the law is “on track” for seven million sign-ups. signed up have actually paid?” In a front-page story titled “New Technical Woes On the CBS Evening News (3/31, story 3, 1:15, Pelley, Hobble Health-Insurance Sign-Ups At Zero Hour,” the Wall 5.58M), Scott Pelley reported that the Administration once Street Journal (4/1, A1, Ante, Radnofsky, Subscription “expected seven million would sign up by today,” and Publication, 4.25M) hones in on the website’s troubles, noting President Obama now anticipates that the total will be “just that the online marketplace was down for several hours, short of that.” CBS also played a clip of the President preventing some people from creating accounts and others detailing the progress that has been made in regards to the from signing in. And while Monday saw over 200,000 ACA’s implementation from an interview the President sat for applications started as of 5:00 pm, the article points out that with Pelley last week. this high interest led the error rate for pages on the site to More Coverage. Cable television programs covering skyrocket. the last day of open enrollment were Bloomberg TV’s In its front-page story, titled “HealthCare.gov Hiccups Bloomberg West (3/31, 11:11 p.m. EDT), FOX News’ The Amid Deadline-Day Frenzy,” the Washington Post (4/1, A1, O’Reilly Factor (3/31, 11:01 p.m. EDT, 2.53M), Fox News’ Goldstein, Sun, 2.33M) reports that the site’s troubles came Special Report, Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight (3/31, 7:33 as “Americans around the country are racing to sign up for p.m. EDT, 49K), MSNBC’s The Ed Show (3/31, 449K), health plans before a midnight deadline.” Around noon, for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show (3/31), and MSNBC’s example, new visitors were “greeted with a screen saying, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (3/31, 984K). ‘We need you to wait here, so we can make sure there’s Several other print and online outlets released accounts room for you to have a good experience on our site.’” of healthcare.gov’s troubles throughout the day, including the In a front-page analysis, the New York Times (4/1, A1, Wall Street Journal (4/1, Ante, Subscription Publication, Pear, Subscription Publication, 5.41M) reports that the White 4.25M) website, the New York Times (4/1, Joachim, House “embarked on a kind of victory lap” Monday, with Subscription Publication, 5.41M), the Los Angeles Times (4/1, “Administration officials” appearing “confident that they would Levey, 2.38M), the Washington Post (4/1, Eilperin, 2.33M) reach their original goal of having seven million people sign “Post Politics” blog, the Washington Times (4/1, Howell, up for private health plans.” The Los Angeles Times (4/1, 230K), another from the Washington Times (4/1, Howell, Reston, 2.38M) adds that “longtime Obama allies in 230K), Bloomberg News (4/1, Chen, 392K), Reuters (4/1, Hollywood and the music industry, including John Legend, Morgan), The Hill (4/1, Easley, 76K) “Healthwatch” blog, Kerry Washington, Connie Britton, Zooey Deschanel and TIME (4/1, Alter, 23.62M), the NPR (4/1, Rovner, 260K) Sarah Silverman took to Twitter” to urge their followers to “Shots” blog, The Wrap (4/1, Crugnale, 137K), CQ (4/1, seek coverage via the ACA exchanges. The Times reports Reichard, Subscription Publication, 967), FOX News (4/1, that also on Monday, Planned Parenthood “said its 600 74.23M), the Huffington Post (4/1, Young, 11.54M), Politico, canvassers had been knocking on an average of 29,000 Variety (4/1, Johnson, 4.98M), PBS’ NewsHour (4/1, doors a day, armed with tablets that allowed families to Woodruff, 90K), another from PBS’ NewsHour (4/1, complete their applications online right then.” Montanaro, Burlij, 90K), The Guardian (4/1, Kasperkevic, The network nightly news broadcasts dedicated over 1.59M), Kaiser Health News (4/1, Platt, 2K), The Hill (4/1, eight minutes of airtime to the Affordable Care Act, focusing Viebeck, 76K) “Healthwatch” blog, CNBC (4/1, Mangan, on both the spike in interest and the troubles it caused for the 29.84M), and CNN (4/1, Luhby, 67.19M). website. Additional coverage of the last official day of open On NBC Nightly News (3/31, story 5, 2:25, Williams, enrollment is offered by the AP (4/1), Bloomberg News (4/1, 7.86M), Brian Williams reported that “with the last minute Wayne, 392K), a second piece in Bloomberg News (4/1, surge and people rushing to beat the clock today came new Wayne, 392K), the AP (4/1), the Washington Post (4/1, Fuller, glitches with the website.” Peter Alexander went on to report 2.33M) “The Fix” blog, the Washington Post (4/1, Millman, that “for a while today it seemed like the healthcare.gov 2.33M) “Wonkblog,” the Washington Post

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