Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square on Wednesday, to gather with several labor and health care industry groups to give a clearer vision about what New Yorkers can expect as a result of the new health care reform law.

“I don’t think there is any question that a lot of Americans, a lot of New Yorkers still have questions about what the law did and didn’t do,” Sebelius said. “The dialogue started about a year ago when the president gathered people in March at a health care summit and continued on until he signed a bill into law on the 23rd of March. But over that year, lots of misinformation was circulating through the airwaves, through mailings. Lots of ads, tens of millions of dollars of ads, were run, many of them intentionally misleading. So we have a job to tell people what’s really in the law.”

Sebelius emphasized that senior citizens who fall into the Medicare Part D prescription gap will get some relief this year. She also said that small business owners who begin offering health care to more employees will see tax credits.

Parents who have college-age children who are about to age out of their policies will now be able to add them to their family plan.

Sebelius said that recent concerns about loopholes for coverage for children with pre-existing conditions will be handled.

"Not everything will be done in the first year, but we're talking about 32 million Americans will have access to health insurance they do not have today," said President and CEO Katherine Abate of Community Healthcare Network. "And there are consumer protections that are going to be in the bill. There's a whole piece about public health and investing in public health, which everyone benefits from."

While most labor and health leaders at the event seemed supportive of the bill, everyone agreed there are still some drawbacks. One health plan administrator said the new law is socially responsible, but a bad move in terms of cost.

"We all agree health care needs to be reformed and people need to be covered, but what's not addressed in this is the cost of care," said MagnaCare President and CEO Joseph Berardo. "From where I sit, and we work on behalf of our customers and negotiate with doctors and hospitals, the underlying drivers of health care are the costs in the hospitals mostly, and to a lesser extent physicians. Nowhere in this legislation has that been addressed."

Some groups plan to push for more legislation to address those issues, and most experts say further tweaks in the law are guaranteed. In the meantime, New Yorkers can expect to see more health care organizations following Sebelius's lead in working to clarify and implement what the legislation already provides.