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An update from the White House on recent health care developments

Good afternoon - The White House Media Affairs office wanted to provide an update on new health care tools and resources that have been made available in the last week.

First, yesterday we rolled out www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck, a website dedicated to debunking the misinformation and baseless smears that are cropping up daily as part of the national debate on health care. The site gives administration officials and experts a place to refute viral misinformation with an aggressive, direct response, and it allows people to take the information into their own hands and share it with friends, family and colleagues through social networks. Take a look at the site here: www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck

Second, we wanted to make sure you didn't miss a new report released last week by the Department of Health and Human Services on the ways health insurance reform will benefit Maine: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/statehealthreform/maine.html

The report contains facts and statistics on how health insurance reform will lower costs and increase choices for Maine families.

Finally, the White House Office of Health Reform released a fact sheet yesterday outlining the ways in which the current health care system leaves millions of Americans behind by denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Pre-existing conditions make adequate health care unavailable for millions of Americans and cause thousands of Americans each year to lose health insurance when they need it most. Read the fact sheet here: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/denied_coverage

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