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HHS Officials Campaign for the Affordable Care Act

 

An official with Obama administration came to Manchester today to tout the achievements of the Affordable Care Act.

At an event organized by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, New Hampshire residents told their stories of how the health-care law had improved their lives.

It’s part of a push by the Obama administration to win support for the Affordable Care Act in light of the New Hampshire Legislature’s attempts to throw up road-blocks in the path of the law’s implementation.

Christie Hager, the regional director of HHS, says her department isn’t waiting for a supreme court ruling on the law. The court hears arguments on the case next week.

"We are confident in the very sound constitutional grounds," Hager says, "We are, every day, moving full force with implementation with the provisions of the law."

Hager mentioned that that work includes preparing a federally administered insurance exchange for the Granite State, in case one has not been created by 2014.

 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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