Having trouble understanding Obamacare? Now there’s an app for that!
Obamacare411 is here to save everyone struggling to understand how the rather complex law affects them personally.
This new iPhone app will help calculate the cost of one’s insurance under Obamacare and gives information on how Obamacare will affect small businesses.
Small Business for a Healthy CT developed the app — and a corresponding website, Obamacare411.info — after noticing how little information the government was providing about the Act.
“The Affordable Care Act is in place and being implemented, but we have seen a three-year vacuum of very little information being brought to the public in an unbiased fashion,” SBHC founding chair Kevin Galvin told The Daily Caller, adding that the Department of Health and Human Services provided “guidance” in the development of the app.
The app and website are the beginning stages of a 12- to 18-month plan “explaining what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Heath Care Reform or Obamacare, means to you as an individual person or family; and what it means to small business owners,” according to the app.
Galvin told Red Alert in an email that the information gap regarding Obamacare is “unfortunate.”
“Obamacare411 is our first step in getting the information out that small businesses need,” he added.
The Obamacare411 app is free, but sorry Android users — it’s only available on the iPhone.
“The decision where and how to introduce our free product was simply a function of seeing a need, deveoping a platform to address that need while best utilizing the resources available,” Galvin told Red Alert.
Longer Obamacare guides are also available in paperback and for the Kindle at Amazon.com, however. You can like Obamacare411 on Facebook and follow them on Twitter, too.
The app is not political, Galvin told The Daily Caller, but a main reason for the Obamacare411 app is insurance companies have “not been able to offer complete information about Obamacare.”
“We feel there is a huge knowledge gap,” Galvin said. “And we feel there is going to be considerable rate-shock.”
