Nov 15 2013
President Barack Obama is expected to offer the outlines of an administrative fix to the problem some consumers are facing -- health coverage cancellation notices. Obama is scheduled to make remarks from the White House at 11:35 a.m.
New York Times: Obama To Offer Health Care Fix to Keep Plans, Democrat Says
Facing dissent from his own party and growing pressure from anxious Congressional Democrats, President Obama is to propose on Thursday an administrative fix to a central element of his signature health care law, allowing Americans who are losing their health insurance coverage because of the Affordable Care Act to retain it (Parker, 11/14).
CNN: Obama To Push Administrative Fix For Insurance Cancellations
President Barack Obama will lay out an administrative solution to address the problem of people getting cancellation notices from their health insurance providers due to the Affordable Care Act, a senior Democratic source familiar with the plan tells CNN's Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash. Obama will deliver remarks at 11:35 a.m. ET in the White House Press Briefing Room, the White House announced Thursday morning (11/14).
USA Today: Obama To Make Health Care Announcement
President Obama is likely to announce new proposals Thursday to help more Americans keep their existing health insurance policies. The White House announced that Obama will make a statement on the Affordable Care Act at 11:35 a.m (Jackson, 11/14).
NBC News: Obama To Speak On Health Care Amid Rumors Of Fix
A senior Democratic source told NBC News that Obama would announce that those people with insurance policies that are being canceled because they do not meet Obamacare's standards will be allowed to renew them, but that insurance companies will be required to tell people re-enrolling about alternative options and the benefits they will lose (O'Brien, Fox and Thorpe, 11/14).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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