What is "minimum creditable coverage?"

I'm an outreach and enrollment worker. I've been following Health Care Reform pretty closely for nearly three years now. I've read through the regulations and most of what has been put out in press releases and contacts with business owners on MCC and I'm left with a number of questions. January is fast approaching and we've heard almost nothing about projections of how many people might be affected and received no training on how to counsel people about the changes. Fortunately, most are likely to be unaffected by the MCC standards, but what about the others?

Outreach workers need information, question and answer sessions with policy people and a preview of how this new mandate will be implemented. We need all this before December, before November even. Too often we've been left to figure out the rollouts out on our own. It makes us look bad when we have to tell our clients that "it's just too new" or "we haven't been trained on that yet, call back in a couple months". In my opinion it has begun to put a strain on the trust we've worked very hard to build with the stakeholders in our communities, who rely upon to deciper the complexities of health care access and now the reforms.