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Last Week to Apply for ObamaCare

If you have not signed up for health insurance under the new Affordable Care Act, you only have a week left to do it. Open enrollment began in October, and ends on March 31—a week from today. The Nevada County Department of Social Services has been busy signing people up for health care, under the new rules…

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Interim Department Director Mike Dent says they’ve also taken almost three thousand signups online (2854 to be exact) through Covered California dot-com. If you don’t sign up by next week, you could be subject to pay a penalty, and not only that, Dent says you can’t get coverage again until October…

Listen to Mike Dent 2

If you are looking for new insurance, you don’t have to apply online. You can go to the Social Services Department and sign up in person. Dent says it should take about an hour.

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