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Published On: Mon, Jun 24th, 2013

HHS Sec Kathleen Sebelius confirms Obamacare partnership with NFL, ‘good for them and good for the country’

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday she is in talks with the NFL to help promote new insurance options under Obamacare. Sebelius said the football league has been “very actively and enthusiastically engaged” in discussions about a partnership to encourage people to enroll in newly available insurance plans.

Photo by Pete Souza/White House

Photo by Pete Souza/White House

“We’re going to be going wherever people are,” Sebelius told reporters. “We’re having discussions — active discussions — right now with a variety of sports affiliates, both in terms of what will end up being paid advertising but hopefully some partnership efforts. The NFL, for instance, in the conversations I’ve had, has been very actively and enthusiastically engaged because they see health promotion as one of the things that is good for them and good for the country.”

Partnerships with sports organizations are especially promising to HHS because the department hopes large numbers of young, healthy men will enroll in the law’s new coverage options.

Attracting young, healthy people will help keep premiums from rising dramatically once the law begins offering new protections for more expensive patients — namely, banning insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions.

The NFL wouldn’t confirm Sebelius’ account or offer any information about promotions or advertising related to the health care reform law. “We do not have anything to report at this time,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in an e-mail to The Huffington Post.

“We have the next couple of months laid out with a very busy and engaged schedule to make sure we’re ready for marketplace enrollment on Oct. 1,” Sebelius said.

Sebelius noted that Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox worked with the Massachusetts government to promote the state’s health care reform law and enrollment outreach campaign in 2007. “We know the Red Sox were incredibly effective in Massachusetts when they rolled out their marketplace coverage, so it’s a logical place to go,” she said.

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