Subject: Re: For the book: Baton Rouge organizing event
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
Cc: Lauren Peterson <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Speech Book <[email-masked]>, LaDavia Drane <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:38:49 -0400
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Thanks Karen -- we want to be sure we get this right.  There are only very
passing references to Iran and climate change, just as the set-up when she
says she's not just focusing on those issues, she's focusing on the issues
keeping people up at night. Then she talks about raising wages and
supporting families. If you have specific suggestions for places you think
this hits the wrong notes, maybe you could send edits or notes in tracked
changes to Lauren so she can work them in.
Thanks
Dan

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> This doesn't feel right - doesn't sound like she understands who she is
> talking to and where she is; don't think AA's in Baton Rouge are concerned
> about climate change and Iran - it's more jobs/wages/sending kids to college
>
> She should acknowledge as Obama did last night that AA wages are still
> struggling despite progress. We've made.  Also should talk about equal pay,
> childcare etc - huge impact on AA women who are head of their households.
>
> Also acknowledge the progress that has been made under Obama, holder and
> lynch and that she will protect and build on it - we have language in one
> of her speeches this summer.  And the WH website has good data on people of
> color and the ACA - protecting it is a BiG deal in our community.
> We can lean in harder on what's at stake:
> Getting Covered
>
>    - As of June 2014, 1.7 million African Americans
>    <http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2014/InsuranceEstimates/ib_InsuranceEstimates.pdf> (ages
>    18-64) gained health insurance coverage since the start of the Affordable
>    Care Act initial open enrollment period in October 2013, a 6.8 percentage
>    point drop in the uninsured rate over that period.
>    - Consumers have access to health insurance that fits their needs and
>    budget through the Health Insurance Marketplace. All plans in the
>    Marketplace cover essential health benefits, pre-existing conditions,
>    recommended preventive care and more. Open enrollment begins November 15,
>    2014 and ends on February 15, 015. Enroll by December 15, 2014 for coverage
>    that starts January 1, 2015*.*
>    - Enrollment in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program
>    (CHIP) is open year round. And so far, twenty-seven states and Washington,
>    D.C. have expanded Medicaid. If all states took advantage of new
>    opportunities to expand coverage under the Medicaid program, 95 percent
>    <http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/UninsuredAfricanAmericans/ib_UninsuredAfricanAmericans.cfm> of
>    eligible uninsured African Americans might qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, or
>    programs to help lower the cost of their Marketplace coverage.
>    - Nearly two thirds (62 percent) of uninsured African Americans have
>    incomes at or below the Medicaid expansion limit of 138 percent of federal
>    poverty level10
>    <http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/factsheets/2012/04/aca-and-african-americans04122012a.html#_ftn10>.
>    However, nearly six in ten uninsured African Americans with incomes below
>    the Medicaid expansion limit reside in states that were not planning to
>    expand Medicaid as of late June 201311
>    <http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/factsheets/2012/04/aca-and-african-americans04122012a.html#_ftn11>
>    .
>
>
>    - More than 500,000
>    <http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2012/YoungAdultsbyGroup/ib.shtml> African
>    American young adults between ages 19 and 26 who would have been uninsured,
>    including 230,000 African American women, now have coverage under their
>    parents’ employer-sponsored or individually purchased health insurance plan.
>
>
>    - About 10.4 million
>    <http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2012/LifetimeLimits/ib.shtml> African
>    Americans, including 3.9 million adult African American women, no longer
>    have lifetime or annual limits on their health insurance coverage thanks to
>    the Affordable Care Act.
>
>
>    - Nearly eight million African Americans with a preexisting health
>    condition9
>    <http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/factsheets/2012/04/aca-and-african-americans04122012a.html#_ftn9> are
>    no longer at risk of being denied coverage since the ACA prohibits insurers
>    from denying someone coverage or charging them more because of a
>    pre-existing condition.
>
>
> http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/factsheets/2012/04/aca-and-african-americans04122012a.html
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 20, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Lauren Peterson <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone -
>
> Attached is a draft of the Baton Rouge organizing event remarks, which
> should be good to go pending any edits that come in overnight.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Lauren
> 6082179231
>
> <2015-09-20 Baton Rouge Event 5pm.docx>
>
>