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Covered California’s Open Enrollment Is off to a Solid Start as the First Key Deadline Approaches
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Covered California’s Open Enrollment Is off to a Solid Start as the First Key Deadline Approaches

Sentinel News WireDecember 4, 2018

·       More than 90,500 new consumers selected a plan through Nov. 30. ·       While plan selections are ahead of the pace set in 2016, when Covered California also delayed its marketing until after Election Day, they are slightly behind the pace set during 2017. ·       Roughly 1.2 million Covered California enrollees have been renewed for 2019, similar to last year’s totals. ·       An estimated 1.1 million uninsured Californians are eligible to enroll in Covered California or Medi-Cal. New research shows that 82 percent of uninsured consumers surveyed, who are eligible for financial assistance, do not know that they qualify. ·      

Lauren Underwood Set to be Sworn In as the Youngest Black Women Elected to Congress
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Lauren Underwood Set to be Sworn In as the Youngest Black Women Elected to Congress

Niele AndersonDecember 3, 2018

Part of the ‘blue wave” that hit Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms came from young women and one of those women came from Illinois. Lauren Underwood defeated Republican incumbent Randy Hultgren for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District. Underwood  is a longtime healthcare advocate. “As a registered nurse and lifelong health care advocate, Lauren Underwood has a tremendous record of service to her community and a deep understanding of the challenges they face,” House Majority PAC Executive Director Charlie Kelly said in a news release. “She’ll bring that needed perspective and experience to Congress.” Underwood has said she would fight to keep the

Trump Exhorts Senate Anew to Rid Us of Obamacare
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Trump Exhorts Senate Anew to Rid Us of Obamacare

ERICA WERNER AND ALAN FRAM Associated PressJuly 20, 2017

Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an “Obamacare” repeal bill to sign. Senators responded by vowing to revive legislative efforts left for dead twice already this week.

AP sources: Senate GOP would halt Obamacare penalties, taxes
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AP sources: Senate GOP would halt Obamacare penalties, taxes

ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated PressJune 22, 2017

Top Senate Republicans prepared Wednesday to release their plan for dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law, a proposal that would cut and revamp Medicaid, end penalties on people not buying coverage and eliminate tax increases that financed the statute’s expansion of coverage, lobbyists and congressional aides said.