 Major sponsors for Abel Denonair include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-Israel. Food sponsors for Abel Denonair include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Abel Denonair include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisabronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor, F.L., and Spotify. Hello and welcome to this edition of Abel Denonair, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lawrence Seiler, and Arlene's here today. Say hi, Arlene. Hi, I'm Arlene Seiler. Okay. On this edition, we will focus on healthcare and the Affordable Care Act. Apparently, well, first let's thank our sponsors. Abel Denonair is sponsored by Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many, many others. Thing that's important to understand is that healthcare is extremely important, especially for people with special needs. So the situation is, what Vermont gets in terms of healthcare, you know, Medicare, Medicaid, and certain services. And a lot of countries have what we call free healthcare, or they pay a certain percentage for health. But yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh suggested Tuesday that Trump wants, the problem is Trump wants President Trump wants affordable care or healthcare to go away or change, he says. It's too expensive. Arlene, what's your take on the importance of affordable healthcare? I'm just gonna hold on this time, this hard time. Yeah, it's like too many co-pays for medication. According to the website, there's a website that people should know about, and it's www.usa.gov. And on that website, it's very important to tell people, there are lots of benefits and helpful insurance for people with disabilities. There's short-term, long-term disability insurance. There's a lot of insurances that are going to be compromised if Biden, the new president doesn't do things. And if you can't work, it says here, according to USA.gov, if you can't work because you're sick or injured, disability insurance is supposed to pay part of your income. I mean, it'll pay, it was supposed to pay your insurance. You may be able to get insurance through your employer if you have an employer. If not, you can buy your own policy. There's federal disability programs. If you have problems with that, you can contact the Social Security Administration to find out about several insurances. But what we don't want, especially as advocates, what we don't want is we do not want health insurance to go away. Because this is going to really impact people of color. It's going to impact people with special needs. It's going to impact veterans. And by the way, today is Veterans Day. It's going to impact the way women, according to the new Vice President-Elect, it's going to also impact, according to Harris, it's going to impact abortions and birth. It's going to impact, because those procedures are extremely too expensive. Now, just to let you know, let me go back a couple of administrations ago. President Kennedy, as you know, President Kennedy did a lot for people with special needs, especially with his family. President Kennedy in 1960s did a lot for mental health. So let's go and see what he did. That's important too. Okay, on October 31st, 1963, President John of Kennedy signed a bill to free many thousands of Americans with mental illness from life in institutions. It envisioned building 1,500 outpatient mental health centers to offer them community-based living instead. And that was the last bill that was really signed by, according to NPR News. Yeah, the last bill signed by President Kennedy and the Mental Health Act. Yeah, because these services are extremely important. Trump wants to keep people with special needs and institutions that can't happen, that cannot happen. So on October 31st, 1963, President John of Kennedy signed a bill to free many thousands of Americans with mental illness from life in institutions. It envisioned building 1,500 outpatient mental health centers in order to offer them community-based care instead. The bill would be the last piece of legislation that would ever be signed by President Kennedy because he was assassinated three weeks later. So you had the Rosa of Kennedy Center in Lebron. So also, you had Special Olympics and you had a lot of things that were instituted by President Kennedy because to help people with special needs and to help healthcare is extremely important. I mean, yeah, because it's very hard for people to pay on their own with health insurance. Matter of fact, let's go into how expensive health insurance can be. I'm sorry? Yeah, so it just depends. Now, yeah, so here we go. According to Obamacare, now what is the Affordable Care Act? The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare because they might change it to Biden care, was developed to help individuals access affordable housing, housing, health insurance, sorry, affordable health insurance due to health insurance marketplace where Americans can purchase federally funded and subsidized health insurance during open enrollment. Say that again? I don't have an answer to that. In order to qualify for health insurance, you must sign up during the open enrollment period and people can be still eligible if you have a qualifying event such as change of jobs, getting married, divorce, moving, et cetera. Well, it depends on the country. Okay. Okay, let's see what the Trump administration is doing for healthcare now because it's a little bit haphazard, but President Donald Trump's healthcare vision is putting America first by providing higher quality healthcare at lower costs. And back into the hands of Americans for those that have problems with affordable healthcare coverage, deliver hospital price transparency and allow the American people to access trusted doctors. President Trump has always guaranteed to protect people with pre-existing conditions, okay? As a matter of fact, November is National Diabetes Month according to the White House. But, you know, the point is you can't take away, the point of this commentary and so today is that anything that was put for good, you cannot take away just because you say it's so expensive. That's the thing. Healthcare is important, especially to people with special needs, huh? Move closer to the phone. Can you move closer to the phone, please? Okay. So yeah, it's very extremely important for that in terms of healthcare. And now, pre-existing conditions can mean anything from cerebral palsy to certain things that impede your daily life. It's like cancer and other things that people have problems with and need good health insurance, huh? Okay, now according to President Trump's administration, this is dated October 29th. The Trump administration finalized the most far-reaching price transparency reform in the history of American healthcare, fulfilling a commitment. President Donald J. Trump made to the American people as a result of the action of healthcare of insurance companies will finally be required to disclose to the public the price that they pay for covered services and prescription drugs. Furthermore, insurance companies will be required to disclose the estimated cost of a patient that a patient has to pay prior to receiving care. Example, if you can't afford healthcare and really need a hospital, I mean, they can't turn people away. I mean, years ago, they used to turn people away by basis of color. By 1960s, you had to go to another hospital if one couldn't treat you. So healthcare, colleges, et cetera. In June of last year, President Trump signed the healthcare transparency executive order and promised the American people that he would take on the special interests to who have kept patients in the dark for generations. Coupled with this administration's prior actions to hospital price transparency, today's rule on insurer price transparency follows through on the commitment to give patients unprecedented visibility into their care and how much it costs. They should tax the rich and really give us free healthcare. Try not to eat while you're talking to me. Now, here's the difference between Medicaid, because we have a couple minutes left here. Now there's an organization called Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS. Medicaid is the United States and federal state program that helps medical cause for some people with limited income and resources. The purpose of Medicaid and the importance of it, Medicaid provides health coverage to millions of Americans, including eligible low income adults, children and pregnant women. So if things change with affordable care, hopefully people don't have to pay for Medicaid and Medicare or pay premiums, including, so health care coverage for millions of Americans, including low income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities. Medicaid is administered by states according to federal requirements. The program is funded jointly by states and the federal government, okay? Yeah, federal, well, that's what Medicare, that's what they should and should do at two different things, okay? Right now, the administration is going through tough times. Okay? Hopefully people won't have to pay for the COVID vaccine, which reminds me, as a matter of fact, this is real important. Walgreens and certain pharmacies, as a matter of fact, and COVID vaccine, according to Walgreens, Walgreens is gonna be one of the, the Trump administration is partnering with CVS and Walgreens to provide COVID-19 vaccine and to protect vulnerable and Americans in long-term care for some of these. So if a person is in a nursing home, like Vermont has an uptick in COVID and the last person who had gotten COVID was this past week, according to WCAX. So a lot of people who need the vaccine will get it and Walgreens will be partnering with CVS and other pharmacies. You know, that's very important here. It says here, yeah. So it says, here's the Trump administration partners with CVS and Walgreens to provide COVID-19 vaccine to protect vulnerable Americans in long-term care facilities. To me, the Trump administration, it's called Operation Warp Speed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense announced today agreements with CVS and Walgreens to provide and administer the COVID-19 vaccine to residents of long-term care facilities, LTCF, nationwide, with no out-of-pocket costs. Protecting especially vulnerable Americans where people with vulnerable Americans who are disabled have been a critical part of the Trump administration's work to combat COVID and long-term care facilities. Residents may be part of prioritized groups with initial COVID-19 vaccines in efforts to that there, in efforts, that there are enough doses. The pharmacy partnership for long-term care programs provide complete management of the COVID vaccine process. This means that long-term care, residents and staff across the country will be able to safely and efficiently get vaccinated for COVID, and it will also help to minimize the burden. So Trump, even though people don't agree with him, he's doing certain things for COVID, but hopefully the Biden administration will do more and make sure the healthcare from Obamacare and other programs will not go away. But right now, America's really having problems with COVID, so the quicker we get a vaccine, the better, and the quicker partner pharmacies will be helping with that. Anything you wanna say before we end? Who? Who Israel? Because I think now people are getting scared in terms of the COVID vaccine. You know, a lot of people don't wanna go outside. A lot of people are not. Well, I mean, Trump is also saying that healthcare is too expensive, but how can you say something that is expensive if you don't try it out? No, I don't think the president can pay stuff out of his own pocket. I don't think he's allowed to do that. Anyway, for more information on healthcare, the Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, you can contact the Social Security Office, the National Social Security Office, at 1-800-772-1213. That number again is 1-800-772-1213. There's no need to be scared with your health insurance because no one's gonna take it away from you. They can't, that's against the law. This puts an end to this edition of Ableton on Air before we end, we would like to say thank you to our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and many, many others. I'm Lauren Seiler, see you next time. Sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, al-Israel. Food sponsors for Ableton on Air include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. 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