Health Outreach Project Educates Students On California Campuses
Largely low-income and minority California State University students want health insurance but many are afraid they can't afford it. Outreach workers are scrambling to sign them up.
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Young But Not So Invincible in California
Largely low-income and minority California State University students want health insurance but many are afraid they can't afford it. Outreach workers are scrambling to sign them up.
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Thousands Of Young California Immigrants Eligible For Coverage — Though Often They Don’t Know It
State is one of a few nationally to offer insurance to low-income youths whose parents crossed the border illegally or overstayed visas.
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Advocates Press For Insurance Subsidies For Domestic Abuse Victims
Even estranged spouses must generally file joint returns to get subsidies for health coverage, putting them at potential risk.
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Nearly 1 Million More Sign Up For Obamacare Plans In February
But the number of enrollees, especially those between 18 and 34, continues to lag expectations.
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Union Pushes To Get Philadelphia Cab Drivers Insured
Drivers are targeted because few have health coverage.
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Changes To Health Law Rules Include Extra Month To Enroll In 2015
Some consumers will also get more time to keep plans that don't meet all the law's requirements.
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Groups Make Final Push To Sign People Up For Obamacare
With less than four weeks to go before the deadline, ads and direct appeals take aim at young people, Latinos and others without insurance coverage.
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Health Centers See Threat From ‘Private Option’ Medicaid
Shifting Medicaid enrollees into private plans could mean less money for clinics treating the poor.
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Insurance, Not Injuries, May Determine Who Goes To Trauma Centers
A new Stanford University study shows that patients with critical injuries are less likely to be transferred to trauma centers if they have insurance.
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Libraries Serve As Health Insurance Info Hubs
In Philadelphia and across the country, librarians are digging into the details of the Affordable Care Act to help patrons sign up for health insurance.
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Questions And Answers On The Latest ACA Delay
The administration pressed the pause button on part of the health law again. Here's what the new timeline for the employer mandate means for businesses, workers -- and for politicians.
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Arkansas’ Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes
A decision to end the plan would cost tens of thousands of enrollees their coverage and have a chilling effect on other states.
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Local Governments In Texas Pursue Marketplace Signups
Local government officials and community-based organizations are working together to incorporate new rules, maximize their resources and educate uninsured Texans on how to take advantage of the federal health law.
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Florida’s Decision Hurts County With Highest Uninsured Rate
Many Hendry County residents earn too little for federal subsidies but are ineligible for Medicaid since state lawmakers opted against expanding the program.
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In Western N.C., Getting Health Coverage Means Getting Creative
A navigator helps people, like John Martin (above), who fall into coverage gap in Appalachia figure out ways to qualify for and receive Obamacare insurance subsidies.
By Jenny Gold -
Texas Imposes New Rules On Health Insurance Navigators
The state's top insurance regulator softened some provisions, but will require that navigators receive additional state training and undergo background checks and fingerprinting.
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Signing Up The Homeless, One At A Time
Skid Row clinics in Los Angeles and other locations around the country are educating and enrolling homeless people in new health coverage, but mental illness and drug addiction pose challenges.
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Check Your Blood Pressure, (Unwittingly) Sell Your Contact Information
SoloHealth, a company that puts health screening kiosks in supermarkets, partners with insurers looking to sign people up with Affordable Care Act polices.
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Emergency Rooms Are Front Line For Enrolling New Obamacare Customers
While it may be a logical place to enroll the uninsured, consumer confusion -- and illness -- are hurdles for outreach workers.
By Sarah Varney