* too busy with friends to care about health insurance/be health literate * being educated means...
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DISPEL MISCONCEPTIONS
ABOUT YOUNG ADULTS:
* Too busy with friends to care about health insurance/be health literate
* Being educated means they understand common health insurance terms
* Want to pay as little as possible in monthly premiums*
EMPLOY BEST WAYS TO REACH YOUNG ADULTS:
* Be straightforward; highlight that they make the decisions
* Reach them where you can grab their attention – e.g., college classrooms
* Contact through peer-to-peer outreach
A Health Issue, Not a Political Issue
Experiences• 14 Communities• 5 Counties• Over 225
presentations• 35,000 + miles per
year• 200,000 +
connections
Talking Points- What worked for us…
Don’t Cross the Line!!!“Teaching consumers how to shop without telling them what to buy”.
An attitude or judgement, cannot be proven true or false
Tells what actually happened, can be proven true or false.
Which plan is best for me?Which one would you choose?Is an HMO better than a PPO?
Is my doctor “in-network”?Is this drug covered?What insurances are accepted?
Answering Difficult
Questions
Protecting PPI
Penalties
2 Adults at $695 each $1,3901 Child $ 347.50Penalty $1,737.50
Minimum Penalty
Impact for ArizonaMore than 500,000 Arizonans Covered
AHCCCS and Marketplace
˃ Imagine the population of Apache Junction, Flagstaff, Nogales, Sedona, Yuma and Prescott all covered by insurance.
˃ 92,278 your people selected a plan or were re-enrolled
˃ 313,000 Arizonians enrolled in AHCCCS
˃ 33,000 + enrolled in Rural Arizona
˃ Many Counties (Navajo and Mohave for example) increased enrollments by over 60%
Critics storm that health care reform is “a cruel hoax and a delusion”.
100 newspapers thunder that health care reform will mean the beginning of socialized medicine
The Wall Street Journal has predicted that the legislation will lead to deteriorating service
Business groups warn Washington bureaucrats will:invade the privacy of the examination roomthat we are on the road to rationed careThat patients will lose the freedom to
choose their own doctor.These dire forecasts sound like today’s headlines, but they come from the 1930’s and the 1960’s and were pulled from newspaper accounts at that time describing the introduction of Social Security and Medicare.
The Sky is falling…?